Automated
furniture app
transforms tiny apartments into mini mansions
Most people don't live in
tiny Fifth Element style apartments. But since some of the most popular cities are beginning to feel the squeeze, an idea born in the
MIT Media Lab is delivering a much-needed, tech-powered solution.*
Based on an
experimental project led by research scientist Kent Larson several years ago at MIT, the Ori system allows an apartment dweller to transform a studio apartment
into the equivalent of a one-bedroom abode.*
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"Larson's team at the Media Lab developed the tech**logies behind Ori as part of the CityHome research," Hasier Larrea, the founder of Ori, told
Mashable. "Then we created some initial functional prototypes … but we were missing the industrial design side of things, and went to [designer] Yves Béhar to help us 'transform' this initial concept from a robot/machine to a customizable system that people would love to have in their homes. Yves' team developed the brand, the control interface and initial set of customizable 'skins' that go on top of the original robotics." *
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