Cornell Robotic Chair

[X2trust]

HOLY SHIT THEY CAN REBUILD!!!!!!!! RUN FOR FOR THE HILL RUNNN!!!!!!!

[nwhiggins]

Its cool. But what a waste of resources.

[poopinitup]

amazing

[darthvaderyoda]

1:10 look at the leg, its jumps in size

[cwf1951]

開玩笑，這樣的椅子要多少錢呀？

[mmsayre]

i understand that this explores the idea of self repairing machines. I dont think this really counts though, since it will only work if the chair "breaks" in a very specific way.

what if one of the leg pins gets deformed? what if the clevis separates from the legs? This is neat, but I wouldnt call it self repairing. It more self disassembles and self reassembles. Might be useful for machines that have to go through tight entrances piecemeal and recombobulate on the other side maybe?

[VxItachixV]

It wasnt so much of a chair that can rebuild itself, or its gonna replace chairs everywhere. The point is to be prove that it could be done and more a matter of the apllication and the possibilities.

[NightWoWPserver]

is this for a fat person prank?

[ktknatasha]

I loved this, and contrary to popular belief, this kind of technology could have so many important applications. It is a matter of being able to build anything so that it will rebuild itself. My first thought for the technology, unfortunately, was that it might be of use in war.

[GMVitus]

Hilarious!

[wadiebayernfan31]

ohhhhhhhhh

[MrPisster]

This is what happens when a Transformer is born with birth defects.

[jthomasss123]

wonderful invention.... keep it up.....

[caterpiller000]

i dont understand why you want a chair that falls over and rebilds its self for no reason!

[brentj30]

Yeah, I can see this $2000 dollar chair, that needs heavy batteries not to mention needs to be plugged in to keep it charge it up, as replacing just about "NO" chairs all over the world soon!

What a waste of effort!

[QQBistro]

@brentj30 DERP

[whatwillbewillbe]

i have a question,can u make it fall apart when someone is sitting on it by remote or something...that would have its uses

[whatwillbewillbe]

that has got to be the most useless coolest thing i`ve googled for awhile...lol

[tdwnarrows22]

GREAT !!!Loved ever thing about it.A few photo eye and sincers and it can put its self together.

[skijmpr]

The whole point is not that it is just a chair, but that an autonomous agent can reconstruct itself, potentially from disparate parts. This may someday have grandiose application, much more so than the proof-of-concept shown here. Regardless, from a technological standpoint this is very cool stuff.

[kitababoy]

its like you walk in and it breaks, "oh shit i gotta wait 10 minutes to sit now"

[karipap7347]

well done..

[yusufer5000]

yes, finally, a robic way to pull a chair from underneath someone.

[fingermanz]

That is cool i enjoyed it

[peacefulthoughts]

For everyone who thinks this is pointless:

Just because you don't see the point of doing this doesn't mean it's not there.

This "simpler" task (chair reconstructing itself) provides a testbed for a lot of important robotics research.

Instead of attacking what people worked so hard on, try to find the reason they would put so much effort into it.

[dalethomasdewitt]

In relation to music I believe Ravel pointed to his art and said: " . . . the delicious pleasure of a useless occupation." Referring to the vast quantity of endless imagination. I spent untold hours crafting two labs and products only to have them destroyed by the DEA. These are memories no one can take. My father constructed waterfalls. Points are for those with dull pencils. Whereas HAL's destruction in 2001 brought a different type emotion this chair wrought other more refined.

[EdTrad]

we can develop crap like this, but we still cant cure cancer? im just saying, prioritize your efforts. make something that actually HELPS people. cure diseases, feed the hungry, shelter the homeless. leave chairs alone.

[peacefulthoughts]

Each person has their own talents. Not everyone can be a doctor or a social worker. And by the way, building this is a lot easier than curing cancer.

As for the money used, yes, I agree, I wish it could be used to feed the hungry and shelter the homeless. Sadly, the big corporations that funds these things usually care more about making profits off of the research...

[dinmagic]

Why are you telling this to us? is pointless and has no meaning, why do you waste your time typing on Youtube, if you can go and cure diseases yourself?

[VladChe]

could they for once make something that's practical rather than just..random?

[badstrref]

Yeah I can see now how a chair that puts itself back together could be considered art rofl.

[taterge]

It's art. Created by Max Dean. So it's purpose is to be art, not a useful object...

[badstrref]

Fucking pointless most useless invention ever made, the chair doesn't even break, it just collapses itself, snap one of the legs properly and tell the bitch to repair itself... It's a clever invention, but totally fucking useless, they should have spent more time inventing a chair that doesn't collaps in the first place thus avoiding the initial problem.

[Lazy034]

Seem useless now but maybe with development it can be applied to be something revolutionary

When the wheel was discovered someone probably said "Whats the point? What are you going to do, roll it down a cliff and laugh?"

Now wheels are used everywhere; cars, bikes, airplane landing gear, etc, etc, etc. The chair alone may be "useless", just like a wheel alone is useless, but what the technology can be used for is not useless.

[greg197]

Very useful for bar fights. The chairs always get seriously damaged in the process of bar fights and now they will be able to put themselves back into order.

[sims2ruler]

greg, that wouldnt work because if they did that you said chairs get seriously so it could break the sensors and maybe put the wrong peices in or just not at all but good thinking though =]

[mellamokiwi]

is this some dort of technology that can be used to do more practical things? cause why not make a chair that does fall apart in the first place? its really cool nonethless

[JamesH]

what about a car that does this? pretty useful if you crash you car lol.

[RBare2007]

Ok, so it's not nanites that will take over the world, but your furniture? ;-)

[Eagles1978]

With shuddering force the chair collapses to the floor, then with persistence and determination proceeds to seek out its parts and upright itself. The Chair stands in for the individual and a society over the course of a lifetime falling apart, falling down, gathering oneself together, and picking oneself up. Again and again. The Robotic Chair articulately and concisely reminds us on a grand scale that there is magic -- that there is hope.

[mostawesomedude]

i wish i was that literate

[Eagles1978]

it's a life metaphor. Getting back up again is it's purpose.

[bigblue123]

i'm impresed! a chair that can put it self together! what next, a robotic bar stool?

[winiblues]

very interesting.. now i know ppl have to much time to waste.. but i love it..

[maax1rau]

I thought this was very usefull. It just shows that there is room for improvment and later useing this idea, they will make things that reassemble themselves that will be very useful.

[mickeyDyo]

nobody is acutally gonna use this, this was done in order to showcase the types of things that can be done just think about the possibilities. so to all those morons that say this is useless ...come on... dont criticize something u dont know anything about this is great engineering

[malicios]

whats the point of a robotic chair? we already have those anyways, there called electric scooters and chairs for handy caps. But i must admit that is cool :D

[cheesemonkey421]

cool

[cheesemonkey421]

Was that programmed or remote controlled? (Heehee, some geek 4 year old could use it as a toy!)

[paranoidpsychopath]

Great robot, now thats thinking outside the box.

[wdblack]

If the practical applications of this chair are not immediately obvious, this does not immediately make it a bad invention. Even if there turns out to be no practical applications for this chair in its current form, my observation as an architecture student is that ideas, both good and bad, lead to better ideas, and one design will lead to another more practical design. This is the creative process. It's not a wast of time.

[wdblack]

It's frustrating when many people seem to criticize innovative thinking. Our ability to transcend merely seeing a thing for what it is on first inspection is the part of our intelligence that made us and continues to make us a successful species. I prefer to encourage what keeps us survivors on a formidable earth. It's the most human thing about us.

[nxt321]

The point of it is to show what is possible in robotics, its not pointless I'd like to see you try to build anything close to it.

[IndustrialStorm]

whats the point in something that destroys itself for the sole purpose of rebuilding itself?

[Piekartz]

now that just what difines the word useless

[dal2k5]

did the chair control itself or was it remote control?

[CovertChameleon]

I know the purpose of that chair, it's made to build itself back together after an obese person sits on it and makes it fall apart. Can't count the times I've had to throw out my chairs because some fat guy sat on it.

[delikatny]

it's an art.. it's THE ART! :)

[junorayyan]

But can You Sit on it?? Haha jk but thats amazing.

[closethipster]

Very awesome.. reminds me of the robot in Iron Giant.

[Scarybug]

It's point is to demonstrate a method of self-assembling robotics. The methods used by the chair to but itself together could be used with a space-exploring robot to alter its function by adding and removing parts, for instance.

[Rivensteel]

But can you sit on it?

[theinsomniac4life]

Now we are well on our way to creating Voltron!

[2l0w4botlike]

xD  !

[RussellHiGGS]

Joseph Kosuth's "One and Three chairs" (orig: 1965) consists of a chair, a photograph of a chair and a text from a vocabulary defining 'chair'

[nordlead3]

I want a chair like this one!

[Svoloch10]

agreed

[Japandcaffben]

None the less it's still cool.

[gigablade77]

It's cool, however it doesn't really have a point :P

[Japandcaffben]

Are you Kidding Me? Yes it does have a point! They can use this technology to make robots that can be regenerative if destroyed.

[gigablade77]

The chair comes apart at set points, it's not actually regenerating, it's self assembling.

[Japandcaffben]

Yes, but this concept has a future.

[Japandcaffben]

And The Technology has a future too.

[normalienne]

haha// you were quoted in an article on the cornell website

http://www.news.cornellDOTedu/­stories/Oct06/robotic.chair.aj­.html

[JRRocker]

Pretty cool man!

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