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Rognan robotic furniture for small space living
- falsedan 7y agoWrong link, should be https://ikea.today/rognan-robotic-furniture-for-small-space-living/ https://ikea.today/rognan-robotic-furniture-for-small-space-...
- rypskar 7y agoWonder if the name is from the small Norwegian village https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rognan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rognan and why they did go for that name
- Luc 7y agoThey always use Norwegian place names for their beds.
- w_t_payne 7y agoMan the future looks depressing.
- TausAmmer 7y agoIf you will be nice boi, your living space will be upgraded +5sq. ft.
- michaelt 7y agoI see what you mean - but things like sofa beds and murphy beds have been with us for decades. Is a motorised sofa bed any more depressing than a regular sofa bed? Or is it more the implication they see such furniture as a growth market?
- krapp 7y agoThis is the future for upper middle class urbanites who could easily afford better, but can't abide living somewhere that isn't chic... the depressing future is for everyone else, and it probably looks like hives of Japanese-style capsule hotels 3d printed from recycled garbage.
- ahoka 7y agoDo people really want to live in such slave dwellings? These futuristic minihomes keep popping up in media, but is this really the solution? The people I know who live in small apartments cannot even afford new furniture. I used to live in 25m2 and the last thing I wanted was these automatons.
- brabel 7y agoIn Stockholm and other cities in Europe, people are more than happy to live in tiny apartments around 30sqm that look like the one in the video. Examples in the best areas of Stockholm downtown: https://www.hemnet.se/bostader?location_ids%5B%5D=925970&location_ids%5B%5D=473448&item_types%5B%5D=bostadsratt&living_area_max=35 https://www.hemnet.se/bostader?location_ids%5B%5D=925970&loc...
- deytempo 7y agountil there is 0 risk of a fire on apartment X spreading to apartment Y, I don’t think I could rest easy in an apartment with all of my stuff.
- fsloth 7y agoAlso the rental of storage space is booming. Pelican Storage seems to be the biggest operators in this area (at least in EU).
- cbzoiav 7y agoModern building standards make it extremely likely a fire cannot pass between units (you can never realistically entirely remove it - people occassionally do things like hang sheets off balconies or store tanks of fuel etc). This is before we talk about how many fires are put out by fire brigades before they've fully destroyed a single unit. Honestly - the risk of a fire in your own apartment is drastically higher than the risk of it being engulfed in a fire caused outside of it.
- buboard 7y agoAre they more than happy? Or just settling?
- TheTruth1234 7y agoCool design ... but they've expressed similar ideas before and nothing comes of it. Looks like pointless vapourware just to increase their design/brand credentials.
- TheTruth54321 7y agoCool design ... but they've expressed similar ideas before and nothing comes of it. Looks like pointless vapourware just to increase their design/brand credentials.
- seren 7y agoHas anyone any idea what standards might apply to autonomous moving part inside a home ? I am not sure that it actually exists, but at some point, someone is going to be crushed by its moving furniture or trapped in the sofa.
- ulrikrasmussen 7y agoWhy would it need to be robotic? If the friction on those tracks is low enough, then it should be possible to move the whole setup by hand.
- seren 7y agoEven with low friction, you probably need to apply brakes at rest to avoid having it to move uncontrollably at the wrong time. But certainly it could be manual. By using a motorized motion, you have more freedom in the design, and you can likely move heavier load. Not everyone is necessarily fit enough to push, squat, or reach some part. But this is a good point and I hope you can use the system without power, because it would suck to sleep on the ground because you have a power outage.
- ulrikrasmussen 7y agoBraking could certainly be done without motors by requiring a handle to be squeezed while moving. With heavier loads I might see the point in using motors, but I think a few pulleys could do the trick as well. My point is mostly that the robotic part seems to be slapped on to make the whole thing seem more futuristic, when in reality it is just a clever design for a folding bed.
- seren 7y agoEven if I don't want to be too cynical, it is probably easier to raise funding for robotic furniture than furniture on wheels...
- saulrh 7y agoGetting the friction down far enough that they could get the thing rolling would also mean low enough friction to store a ton of momentum and roll it over someone's foot. This thing probably masses ten times as much as any manually-actuated compact furniture I've seen. On top of that, consider accessibility. I'd be mostly fine hauling this around, but I know some people that weigh literally half what I do and others with joint or coordination issues. They would have trouble. Finally, this system is probably going to last way longer. Humans are really awful at using things carefully, while a mechanical engineer with some servos can control exactly where the force is. The "grease the rails and push" plan is great for getting it started, but then you've dumped a bunch of energy into the system and it'll have to be dissipated by running the thing into a physical stop, which is a recipe for vibration and stress that'd shake it to pieces in months. A controlled system can move the unit smoothly and carefully slow it down at the end of travel. I bet this is cleanly in Vimes Theory of Boots territory.
- mr_t 7y agoI've started to sleep on the floor (better said, on two or three blankets on the floor) a year ago because I've read somewhere it helps with back aches. The first week was weird and uncomfortable, but I got used to it quickly. I've never slept that well (frequent sleepless nights before switchting to the ground) and my aches almost vanished. I got rid of my bed since I didn't need it anymore and realized how much space it took (I live in a single room in a shared appartment). Now my smallish room seems so much bigger, I literally can't even use all that space efficiently (I live quite minimalistic). Sure, this isn't for everyone, but overall I can't stop thinking that something I took for granted (everyone needs a bed, right?) is in fact nothing but an accessoire that, in retrospect, even decresed my quality of sleep, therefore even my quality of life.
- vageli 7y ago> I've started to sleep on the floor (better said, on two or three blankets on the floor) a year ago because I've read somewhere it helps with back aches. The first week was weird and uncomfortable, but I got used to it quickly. > I've never slept that well (frequent sleepless nights before switchting to the ground) and my aches almost vanished. > I got rid of my bed since I didn't need it anymore and realized how much space it took (I live in a single room in a shared appartment). Now my smallish room seems so much bigger, I literally can't even use all that space efficiently (I live quite minimalistic). > Sure, this isn't for everyone, but overall I can't stop thinking that something I took for granted (everyone needs a bed, right?) is in fact nothing but an accessoire that, in retrospect, even decresed my quality of sleep, therefore even my quality of life. Do you sleep directly on the floor with no padding whatsoever? I tend to sleep on my side or stomach and have never been able to sleep well on a bare floor.
- mr_t 7y agoI sleep on 2-3 blankets, so a little padding. But too much padding gets uncomfortable for me. Let me try to elaborate what I think I learned during the past year. But take it with a grain of salt, it's just subjective perception: I slept on my side or stomach most of my life, it was the only comfortable way to sleep for me. I started to sleep on the ground just like that and guess what, the first nights were horrible. Once I started to sleep in different positions, everything changed. My theory is that there is no real feedback on a mattress/very soft ground. I can sleep like I want and it will be comfortable, even though it might be "bad sleeping posture". If I do the same on the ground, there is no padding, my body gets real feedback and reacts with pain in bad "sleeping postures". But what does the pain tell me? In one way: Sleeping on the floor is bad because it hurts. In another way: My way of sleeping is bad because it hurts, so I need to change it. An example: Sleeping on the stomach on a mattress is still somewhat "comfy" for me (even though I don't like sleeping on a mattress). Sleeping on the stomach on the ground is a no go, because my weight presses my chest against the ground, making breathing way harder than sleeping on my back with no weight on my chest. I just got so used sleeping on my chest that sleeping on the back was horrible at first, but once I got used to it I felt more replenished the mornings after. So if I sleep on my stomach like in this example, is sleeping on the floor bad because I can't breathe properly, or is sleeping on a mattress bad, because I don't get the necessary feedback to realise it affects my breathing? I guess that is something everyone needs to decide for himself, but for me the answer is: sleeping on a mattress is bad.
- deytempo 7y agoThe irony here is if you have enough money to afford this sort of thing, why would you live in a small space?
- nine_k 7y agoBecause not buying a $1000 piece of furniture would only pay for 1-2 months of rent of a large space? If you live in a proper city, like much of Europe, space is at a serious premium.
- michaelt 7y agoAlthough the video depicts tiny one-room apartments, the second market for this is people who'd like some extra space without the cost and inconvenience of extending their house or moving house. i.e. if you're willing to pay $2000 to get space for a home office or exercise space, that'll get you a pretty fancy folding bed - but it's a fraction of the cost of an extra bedroom.
- ghaff 7y agoYou don’t need something robotic but I expect folding beds (especially outside the most expensive cities) see a lot of use in guest bedrooms and similar. A traditional bed sort of locks a room into a guest bedroom function even if it’s rarely used as such. Better to have a sofa bed of some sort and use it for whatever purpose most of the time.
- LudwigNagasena 7y agoI think many people who can afford this sort of thing barely have any money to rent a closet in a city like Singapore.
- LUmBULtERA 7y ago"Sir, are you classified as human?" "Negative, I am a meat popsicle." Reminds me of Korben Dallas' place.
- wlkr 7y agoI think of his and similar styled apartments often. Clips for those who aren't aware [0] [1]. Bears resemblance to the Capsule Tower [2] [3]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzOHhzk7zJ0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzOHhzk7zJ0 [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZFH4wCLVXY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZFH4wCLVXY [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakagin_Capsule_Tower https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakagin_Capsule_Tower [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXRJE2caPNY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXRJE2caPNY
- ltc5505 7y ago“Hey Siri, retract the bed into the rear of the kitchen wall and spin the bathroom 180°.”
- PeterStuer 7y agoI can't be the only one that lol'ed when they didn't dive into bed together. I see what you did there, IKEA.
- buboard 7y ago> Cities are booming and at the same time living spaces are shrinking. That's not necessary with the right allocation of shared spaces. Are workspaces "shrinking" because more people work in coworking spaces? Designers should stop pretending that prison-cell living is something desireable, it's not.
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