I don't think you can see the benefit of this though, lets say you have to set up 200 chairs, what if you could one day open the back of your trailer, have a preset design for where you want them placed and then all of the chairs and tables would set themselves up. Amazing right, this isn't a self fixing chair, its a self placing chair.
You could also rent a carpet cleaner or a trailer why not chairs that put themselves up? Sure you could pay a person to do that but if you're going to rent something and it's not significantly higher then why not?
I think this is more of a demonstration of robotics than an actual product idea. Although a rather impractical device, the science behind it is still quite cool. At least I would have great difficulty in building such a robot.
this thing is of no use to the society, like most ppl commented here, but they help engineers learn new things, and this can be considered as a warm up for them or something that would help them get started, an idea or a new metord for doing something can be inspired or learned when seeing this. so its not entirely useless
Jim Jose If you want a war machine that can heal itself by recollecting it's parts that have been shot/blown/slashed/ripped/shredded of it using a super powerful magnet?SURE! Go for it.
Vikiyas Viki It could be a war robot, and it could be a rescue robot if something falls on it and breaks parts off. Yes, a lot of technology like this is applied to fighting, but then finds its way into common usage somehow.
Thank gosh they found a fix for this! I can't tell you how many times my chair has spontaneously broken apart. I'm getting tired of putting it back together myself.
@ChannelTravis The point is the robot can find all of its pieces and assemble itself. They chose a chair because its a recognizable shape. This technology is a step towards sending a robot into a dangerous location and it can automatically find its way around even if the environment is disrupted, such as in a fire.
This chair isn't fixing itself, it's modular. It has assembling pieces. Those pieces require to be OK in order for the chair to "fix" itselfso this is not new or anything... Pathetic
***** Computer science engineering here. It takes a lot less engineering than it takes to build any integrated circuit. As it is said above, it's just a modular robot with the figure of a chair. So we're developing modular robots which main goal is to serve any function (including being a chair if you program it) and you want a chair to be looked up?
***** No, there is software engineering (programs can be made using lots of methods, it's the purpose of the engineer to find the optimal one) and electronics engineering (same goes with processors: from example, it used to be build in a way that only allowed one instruction per clock cycle, but that was not as optimal, so now they're pipelined, which process each instruction in more than one clk cycle which allows to process the beggining of a instruction at the same time that the last instruction is still being done). I'm from Spain, and that is the literal translation of the career (you could say I'm a programmer, but it's inaccurate as I study electromagnetism or algebra, for example, at a physics career level, learning programming languages just comes with learning about how computers do things)
***** Well, my original point was about how the title of the video is completely misleading. It's obviously not trivial to build a modular robot, yet it's not "self healing" nor innovative. EDIT: I see the confusion. The rest of the world doesn't say "computer science". Computer science is a term that english language had to take because "informatics" (would be the translation of the term the rest of the world uses) is a copyrighted logo...
What is the usefulness of such a chair? And, can you sit in this chair? Or perhaps it is somewhat of a metaphor for some other form of self repairing system?
Congratulations, you built a chair that can explosively dismantle itself, and then recreate itself in a really slow, tedious, undignified and pre programmed manner. I'll be impressed when you can make a robot look at a lego model, destroy it, and recreate it again. Otherwise this was a serious waste of time lol.
L45 Ltd Some awkward first steps, I give you that. But the idea is great. People certainly won't stop here, maybe we'll see self-assembling lego robots sooner than we think. On a more serious note, there might very well be some practical applications: I'm thinking industrial docking mechanisms or self-assembling structures in places humans can't reach. The fictional underwater mining facilitiy "Kongsberg-Prototype" from Frank Schätzing's "The Swarm" was designed after that idea.
Also I bet you can't actually sit on that chair in fear of damaging the servos. A remote controlled explosive chair could make some good pranks though xD
@PedroMonzu The advancement is not the chair, or even the fact that it fixes itself. The advancement is the software used to make it do it. They just use a chair because, as you yourself said, it's a simple concept. They are most likely funded by industrial and the advancements that come out of the research that led to the software is what leads to the next generation of the welders you see in factories, or even modern robotic surgical equipment now in use.
To those saying it's stupid: it's a proof of concept. Nobody wants to see some machine with wires coming out that only the designers and engineers would understand. It's meant for the public.
i don't get it why would it break at first if it's robot chair shouldn't it hold together better so whats the point? i mean the price for this thing and you expect someone to hold together
@TheZipstorm if it falls it does not mean it will break anywhere and you will not have to buy a new one it has points where it separates and then puts itself together agin
just what i need!! a chair that falls apart of its own accord and then takes and age to put itself back together genious! meanwhile people are dying of disease and malnutrition. what a victory there is in science
Potential consumer/buyer: "So.. this chair can explode into pieces at will.. Then reform.." Project tester: "Well thats going to cause some trouble, innit?"
@thepianoaddict probably not. the chair is finding pre-determined points (im guessing the parts in red) so that it can 're-connect' itself back together...
@32777doug - I don't think they're planning to sell these chairs to the mass market. Its purpose is to demonstrate the potential feasibility of a developing technology using a familiar, everyday object (like a chair). It's called "proof of concept", and is very common in the tech world.
Imagine if that thing breaks while you sitting on it, says something like "screw you, I'm tired of this", collects all it's parts, and moves away from you... lol
awsome, but is it meant to be a chair that can be used like a normal chair? e.g. can I sit in it like I do with my office chair or is it designed to fall and fix?
@MrRasive I don't think it's so much that it's a chair. It's more about the ingenuity of a machine being able to reasemble its self. The chair is just an example to show it working.
When I saw the video title, I thought it was going to prove *extremely* useful for bashing a burglar over the head without being concerned about it breaking
@Jdudeo I don't think this is about chairs, per se. I'm just speculating, but imagine if we send a robotic device to, say, Mars, and something breaks. If it were capable of repairing itself, it would save considerable time and money, and allow the mission to be completed.
it's not senseless, well, the chair-part probably is; but it demonstrates complex interaction and recognition of individual pieces inbetween. Imagine just spouting a crapload of pieces to Mars, and, when there, the pieces will autoassemble into a habitat, a greenhouse, or something else which isn't feasible to ship "whole" by a rocket.
im assuming the intent is not to show how amazing a self healing hair would be (as its made of metal and you will never accidentally break it, making the healing factor pointless), but this is just a way to demonstrate how it is thoretically possible to program other, more important things, to act in a similar way
Imagine a spacecraft repairing itself after a meteorite collision or even redesigning and re-constructing itself to suit a different environment as it traverses the universe and you have an example of a useful application for this kind of creation. Another might exist in the micro-miniature world of nano-bots repairing structures inside machines? Imagine an army of those machines being sent to a planet where man couldn't survive until bots made structures for man to live in. The list is endless.
I saw this, or something exactly like it, in an art gallery a few years back. It was pretty much a work of art, not meant to be practical. Fascinating though.
The significance of this invention that robots can be taught to be self-healing; repairs without human interaction. The implications of this though can be scary.
its a technology that has been long used, like auto-moving vacuum cleaners. the point here is that its creative and entertaining. of all things a chair!
@TghIII I think it is the concept behind the chair that is what will provide genuine functionality somewhere. The fact that the chair can recognise pieces of itself and line itself up with them then assemble I think is pretty cool, and that sort of technology would have applications elsewhere, perhaps in more "planet-saving" fields. You kind of remind me of Sarah Palin insulting fruit fly research, try taking a look at the bigger picture.
Can you do this with mining equipment in a zero g environment? Also would your prototype allow for interchangeable parts that could create load bearing structures of varying shapes
its good to know that in a few years i can have a chair thats falls apart,breaks my back in the process and repairs it self leaving me for dead on the floor
@mattdavid98 just thinking out loud never seen it in real live but couldnt the part that puts the back in place also be used so it could flip itself? That said I see it's still a prototype and not really ussuable in real live still a cool concept
Imagine makeing a person version out of this to act as an anger management dummy. Just hit him until he breaks and expect him to be standing there, waiting for you, all shiny and new when you get home.
@Natedawg422 I would use the self-repairing technology in this and the Robotic snake to create a machine capable of searching for people in rubble during emergency. That's just the first thing that came to mind.
Thats really gonna be useful if someone passes out in your place or somethin. *passes out* "OMG! Quick, sit her down!" *picks up the lady* "SHIT, the chairs broken again.....just give it a good 30 minutes to fix itself..." *drops the lady* "IT FIXES ITSELF??" "HOLY SHIT, THATS AMAZING!!!" :D
OMFGGGGGG THIS WILL CHANGE THE WORLD! There will be no more need to "pull" the chair out from under someone, now you can have a remote and press a button and BAM! they on the floor! THENN press another button and while you are being chased and probably beatin, the chair will be back to normal!! BRILLIANT!
@mattdavid98 ive seen some home made bots that have a feature when its upside down a part extends and lifts one side of the unit until it flips over and corrects its self
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Title should be 'self fucking up and rebuilding chair."
Giovanni Stockett , or Self-assembling .. because if you break the hell outta this chair, it won't heal no matter how much noise it make --'
*chair breaks randomly* "well i fucked up!"
I rather have a chair that won't break.
lol
Adrian Millan
Would make a great prank. You could have it break on command.
I don't think you can see the benefit of this though, lets say you have to set up 200 chairs, what if you could one day open the back of your trailer, have a preset design for where you want them placed and then all of the chairs and tables would set themselves up. Amazing right, this isn't a self fixing chair, its a self placing chair.
Adrian Millan 😂✌
You could also rent a carpet cleaner or a trailer why not chairs that put themselves up? Sure you could pay a person to do that but if you're going to rent something and it's not significantly higher then why not?
I think this is more of a demonstration of robotics than an actual product idea. Although a rather impractical device, the science behind it is still quite cool. At least I would have great difficulty in building such a robot.
this thing is of no use to the society, like most ppl commented here, but they help engineers learn new things, and this can be considered as a warm up for them or something that would help them get started, an idea or a new metord for doing something can be inspired or learned when seeing this.
so its not entirely useless
Jim Jose If you want a war machine that can heal itself by recollecting it's parts that have been shot/blown/slashed/ripped/shredded of it using a super powerful magnet?SURE! Go for it.
Vikiyas Viki It could be a war robot, and it could be a rescue robot if something falls on it and breaks parts off.
Yes, a lot of technology like this is applied to fighting, but then finds its way into common usage somehow.
"What is my purpose?"
"You are sat on"
"Oh my god"
"Welcome to the club pal"
Self-assembling Ikea furniture is the future!
PerunaVallankumous *Furnuture
Technic 12 he got it right it's furniture
LowlyTheNoob It was wordplay on Furniture and Future
Only an extra £1,000!
Would be more efficient to repair it by hand.
but which is more entertaining is the question.
Dang williams by hand
"3 hours later..." still no fucking chair. This is dumb.
Yeah, but this is the meme equivalent of taping a claymore to a rumba
NO! I can't believe you would say that.
IKEA approved.
Haha lol
lol
"We built this chair that blows itself apart and puts itself back together not because it was useful, but because it was hard"
Thank gosh they found a fix for this! I can't tell you how many times my chair has spontaneously broken apart. I'm getting tired of putting it back together myself.
Holy crap this video is almost a decade old. When will these become commercially available?
John Doe never
thousands of people gathering around a chair has to be the best thing i've seen all day😂
Why?
A chair that breaks and reassembles itself whenever it pleases... GENIUS!
This would make putting together ikea furniture more fun.
derstreber2 why is everyone talking about ikea I'm more interested to see how this can make the world's first iron giant
Portal Turret duh... Japan
the source of giant robots
Why would it be more fun? You just press a button and it does all the work for you. The novelty would wear off quickly.
I think this is pretty cool. Like how it finds the broken-off pieces. It may not be practical as a chair :P but may have other uses
But can you SIT on it?
@ChannelTravis The point is the robot can find all of its pieces and assemble itself. They chose a chair because its a recognizable shape. This technology is a step towards sending a robot into a dangerous location and it can automatically find its way around even if the environment is disrupted, such as in a fire.
Robot Wars: Chair Edition
+brutusultimatum XD
Wow, such a nice proof-of-concept prototype almost 10 years ago!
This is not self healing it's self assembling
Self-healing chairs. Just when I though I'd seen it all, the self-repairing CHAIR is introduced.
This chair isn't fixing itself, it's modular. It has assembling pieces. Those pieces require to be OK in order for the chair to "fix" itselfso this is not new or anything... Pathetic
it also breaks unless it's constantly being powered
***** Computer science engineering here. It takes a lot less engineering than it takes to build any integrated circuit. As it is said above, it's just a modular robot with the figure of a chair. So we're developing modular robots which main goal is to serve any function (including being a chair if you program it) and you want a chair to be looked up?
***** No, there is software engineering (programs can be made using lots of methods, it's the purpose of the engineer to find the optimal one) and electronics engineering (same goes with processors: from example, it used to be build in a way that only allowed one instruction per clock cycle, but that was not as optimal, so now they're pipelined, which process each instruction in more than one clk cycle which allows to process the beggining of a instruction at the same time that the last instruction is still being done). I'm from Spain, and that is the literal translation of the career (you could say I'm a programmer, but it's inaccurate as I study electromagnetism or algebra, for example, at a physics career level, learning programming languages just comes with learning about how computers do things)
***** Well, my original point was about how the title of the video is completely misleading. It's obviously not trivial to build a modular robot, yet it's not "self healing" nor innovative.
EDIT: I see the confusion. The rest of the world doesn't say "computer science". Computer science is a term that english language had to take because "informatics" (would be the translation of the term the rest of the world uses) is a copyrighted logo...
It's not exactly pathetic considering the level of engineering put on it, try to create a robot that does 1/4 of that and you'll see if it's pathetic
All this technology, and this is what you give us?! A 'Self-Healing' chair!?!
BRAVO!
I'd rather call my uncle he does it in 5 seconds
Awesome! Finally a chair that will put itself back together!
If only someone could build a chair that doesn't spontaneously fall apart.
i guess this can also self harm...
(explodes)
into pieces.
I need 12 of this in my class so I don't have to throw my precious chalks at the kids when they don't behave.
its self assemble not self heal
The chairs in my house spontainiously fall apart,i'm so glad somebody is working on a solution to this common problem.
Honestly, this didn't impress me at all.
What is the usefulness of such a chair? And, can you sit in this chair? Or perhaps it is somewhat of a metaphor for some other form of self repairing system?
Congratulations, you built a chair that can explosively dismantle itself, and then recreate itself in a really slow, tedious, undignified and pre programmed manner.
I'll be impressed when you can make a robot look at a lego model, destroy it, and recreate it again.
Otherwise this was a serious waste of time lol.
L45 Ltd Some awkward first steps, I give you that. But the idea is great. People certainly won't stop here, maybe we'll see self-assembling lego robots sooner than we think.
On a more serious note, there might very well be some practical applications:
I'm thinking industrial docking mechanisms or self-assembling structures in places humans can't reach. The fictional underwater mining facilitiy "Kongsberg-Prototype" from Frank Schätzing's "The Swarm" was designed after that idea.
Also I bet you can't actually sit on that chair in fear of damaging the servos.
A remote controlled explosive chair could make some good pranks though xD
L45 Ltd True, true.
L45 Ltd #thiswas2007
+watisdatdennhier first steps but you dont go on television with those steps....because its crap
@PedroMonzu The advancement is not the chair, or even the fact that it fixes itself. The advancement is the software used to make it do it. They just use a chair because, as you yourself said, it's a simple concept. They are most likely funded by industrial and the advancements that come out of the research that led to the software is what leads to the next generation of the welders you see in factories, or even modern robotic surgical equipment now in use.
Well that's .... useful. Time well spent superintelligent engineers, you really did a great thing for humanity.
2:17 "Oh hi. How have you been? I've been reaaaally busy being dead, you know, after you murdered me."
"What is my purpose" "you are a chair" "Oh my god"
@UlrimateRaviel
Haha "Sorry I have to leave the room for a bit so I don't pass out from fear of my self-constructing chair"
Excellent!
impressive technology demonstration. is it also practical? can you sit on it?
If you can it would be very practical.
How often do you break chairs?!
Kytoons have you ever put out 100+ chairs for a party or reception? Because it would become practical to have chairs to set themselves up.
i would think its some kind of button you would push, not just happen randomly
To those saying it's stupid: it's a proof of concept. Nobody wants to see some machine with wires coming out that only the designers and engineers would understand. It's meant for the public.
i don't get it why would it break at first if it's robot chair shouldn't it hold together better so whats the point? i mean the price for this thing and you expect someone to hold together
that would be really useful if you had a poltergeist in your house. They should do plates and wine bottles next
@TheZipstorm if it falls it does not mean it will break anywhere and you will not have to buy a new one it has points where it separates and then puts itself together agin
just what i need!!
a chair that falls apart of its own accord and then takes and age to put itself back together
genious!
meanwhile people are dying of disease and malnutrition.
what a victory there is in science
crowd laughs and I'm in the corner like "HA!!!! so funny..."
Potential consumer/buyer: "So.. this chair can explode into pieces at will.. Then reform.."
Project tester: "Well thats going to cause some trouble, innit?"
Guy1: "What's that sound? Did you leave the garbage disposal on?" ?:/
Guy2: "Nah. That's just my chair rebuilding itself." :D
@thepianoaddict
probably not. the chair is finding pre-determined points (im guessing the parts in red) so that it can 're-connect' itself back together...
Can't exactly call it useless. It's a working concept of self assembling furniture which can lead to other inventions and improvements.
@32777doug - I don't think they're planning to sell these chairs to the mass market. Its purpose is to demonstrate the potential feasibility of a developing technology using a familiar, everyday object (like a chair). It's called "proof of concept", and is very common in the tech world.
Splendid, for my dining chairs are so often self-destructing
Imagine if that thing breaks while you sitting on it, says something like "screw you, I'm tired of this", collects all it's parts, and moves away from you... lol
Domestic violence-proof robot furniture!
Also, this reminds me of the Iron Giant.
Can you do this with something a little more useful? Like a car or something?
all great things start with nothing, so considering that statement we are half way there
Is this Chair the World's first "Stand Up" Robot Comedian?
awsome, but is it meant to be a chair that can be used like a normal chair?
e.g. can I sit in it like I do with my office chair or is it designed to fall and fix?
@MrRasive I don't think it's so much that it's a chair. It's more about the ingenuity of a machine being able to reasemble its self. The chair is just an example to show it working.
This is how our robot overlords will kill us sitting in a chair, laying in bed noooooooo
not only it took a long time to build, but it takes a long time to rebuild itself
Oh my that is EPIC! I was shocked watching this!
*somewhere in the background*
"Now we gotta go reinvent the chair."
lol
I never thought I would need to say:
"Hold on a moment, I'm calibrating my chair."
@Natedawg422 It's not the chair that's the invention; it's the scientific value. The fact that we can accomplish this.
When I saw the video title, I thought it was going to prove *extremely* useful for bashing a burglar over the head without being concerned about it breaking
By the time the chair has finished repairing itself, I would've gone to Ikea, bought a chair, and come home before that thing finished.
@Jdudeo I don't think this is about chairs, per se. I'm just speculating, but imagine if we send a robotic device to, say, Mars, and something breaks. If it were capable of repairing itself, it would save considerable time and money, and allow the mission to be completed.
it's not senseless, well, the chair-part probably is; but it demonstrates complex interaction and recognition of individual pieces inbetween.
Imagine just spouting a crapload of pieces to Mars, and, when there, the pieces will autoassemble into a habitat, a greenhouse, or something else which isn't feasible to ship "whole" by a rocket.
I want a robot like this, except this time it's my entire house.
I feel the real huge urge to sit on the chair while it's struggling to get up at 1:53 :D
im assuming the intent is not to show how amazing a self healing hair would be (as its made of metal and you will never accidentally break it, making the healing factor pointless), but this is just a way to demonstrate how it is thoretically possible to program other, more important things, to act in a similar way
by the time that chair will have been repaired i'd already be back from ikea with a new one
Wow...whilst they were trying to figure out how to fix chairs, we're working on bloody flying cars and automated building!! XD
"Eat your vegetables, child..." *places finger on remote*
*Throws chair across the room and breams robot* Well fuck...
I'm not putting it down, but what would be a useful application of this technology? I guess maybe for a machine that operates in places humans can't?
could you imagine bringing this to a meeting and it happens to break.
"give it a minute sir."
the thing dings like a toaster whe. ready
Imagine a spacecraft repairing itself after a meteorite collision or even redesigning and re-constructing itself to suit a different environment as it traverses the universe and you have an example of a useful application for this kind of creation. Another might exist in the micro-miniature world of nano-bots repairing structures inside machines?
Imagine an army of those machines being sent to a planet where man couldn't survive until bots made structures for man to live in. The list is endless.
in a few years, it's going to be mandatory for all Mcdonalds to have these lol
I saw this, or something exactly like it, in an art gallery a few years back. It was pretty much a work of art, not meant to be practical. Fascinating though.
**Drops Nuke**
**Chair rebuilds**
HOW I SAY!?
The significance of this invention that robots can be taught to be self-healing; repairs without human interaction. The implications of this though can be scary.
Can it walk you over to the TV remote and fetch beer from the fridge?
Darn... forgot to recharge my chair.
its a technology that has been long used, like auto-moving vacuum cleaners. the point here is that its creative and entertaining. of all things a chair!
@TghIII I think it is the concept behind the chair that is what will provide genuine functionality somewhere. The fact that the chair can recognise pieces of itself and line itself up with them then assemble I think is pretty cool, and that sort of technology would have applications elsewhere, perhaps in more "planet-saving" fields. You kind of remind me of Sarah Palin insulting fruit fly research, try taking a look at the bigger picture.
It's not just self healing, it's also self-destructing!
Don't imagine a chair, imagine a car, a house a building doing "this shit" rising like magic from the floor.
Can you do this with mining equipment in a zero g environment? Also would your prototype allow for interchangeable parts that could create load bearing structures of varying shapes
its good to know that in a few years i can have a chair thats falls apart,breaks my back in the process and repairs it self leaving me for dead on the floor
lmao when the chair was all back together but still flat on the floor it looked like yoda was trrying to fix it :P
@mattdavid98 just thinking out loud never seen it in real live but couldnt the part that puts the back in place also be used so it could flip itself? That said I see it's still a prototype and not really ussuable in real live still a cool concept
Imagine makeing a person version out of this to act as an anger management dummy. Just hit him until he breaks and expect him to be standing there, waiting for you, all shiny and new when you get home.
"honey, this pudding is delic..*kabom* Ouch"
Why make a chair that is designed to break? it's doomed to be weak.
@Natedawg422 I would use the self-repairing technology in this and the Robotic snake to create a machine capable of searching for people in rubble during emergency. That's just the first thing that came to mind.
Thats really gonna be useful if someone passes out in your place or somethin. *passes out* "OMG! Quick, sit her down!" *picks up the lady* "SHIT, the chairs broken again.....just give it a good 30 minutes to fix itself..." *drops the lady* "IT FIXES ITSELF??" "HOLY SHIT, THATS AMAZING!!!" :D
The money they spent on that chair could have fed my entire tribe for a week.
It's not about that... It's about the ability to literally be able to build tools that can heal themselves.
OMFGGGGGG THIS WILL CHANGE THE WORLD! There will be no more need to "pull" the chair out from under someone, now you can have a remote and press a button and BAM! they on the floor! THENN press another button and while you are being chased and probably beatin, the chair will be back to normal!! BRILLIANT!
its the first step to the likes of cartoon robots who, after being distroyed, walk around and pick up there parts! this is cool!
I guess this might translate into something useful in the future..,.,for now it's just funny as hell when the thing self destructs
@mattdavid98 ive seen some home made bots that have a feature when its upside down a part extends and lifts one side of the unit until it flips over and corrects its self