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July 14, 2016 02:33 pm GMT

Automated furniture app transforms tiny apartments into mini mansions

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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. 

"Larson's team at the Media Lab developed the technologies 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."   Read more...

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