Movement is like the claymation cartoons. I wonder if this was done frame by frame video like claymation? Why would anyone go through all that for a chair? I could think of a million other things to build if I had that enigineering capablity.

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Thats really cool.. but why would you need it? to trick people into sitting in it and it falls apart and then you show them it puts itself back together...Does its make them cool to have one?! geez im confusedddd

With all that knowlage they should have just built a stronger chair

The chair can "fall apart" but still have the software and hardware to not only locate its components, identify which are where, but reassemble itself.

One thing that would be useful are those robots used in SWAT/terrorist manouvers. A robot could drop off components such as remote cameras, bomb "sniffing" components, and other such things around a perimeter, and if it needs to withdraw or move a component it would know where it was at, and be able to gather it, move it, or return to its base. It could drop anti personel mines at a caves entrance, and if they aren't used, rather than send someone to deactivate them, or just leave them there, the robot would be able to without human intervention.

Autonomous robots are awesome I think. Even though this one was built with an odd purpose in mind, it still did its job.

If there were more robots like this at WalMart I wouldn't even have to interact with anyone at that god forsaken place.

I think this is just a demonstration project, to see what the advantages and disadvantages of object-locating robots are.
This reminds me of those "block" robots people were working on a few years ago, where they could locate each-other and combine together to turn into different shapes to preform different tasks.

I know what it's for!!!!
Those who cheat at musical chairs when they pull you out of the chair you're sitting in then take it. Just press the button and wham...who's chair now???

I can see a huge market for those things. Plenty of dollars coming their way. Hope they remembered to patent.
How often does your chair break and you have no idea how to fix it or buy a new one?

Great to see education paying off.

that's pretty cool. one more step toward having SkyNet come on line....then we're all screwed.

reminds me of that movie "The Twonky" with that possessed 1950's television set walking around the place, and whatnot.

(This comment was modified on Apr 23, 2006 11:45 PM)

this chair would be a must have for any severely depressed person. stand on the chair put the rope around your neck and wait for the chair to fall apart. an added bonus is getting to watch the chair put itself back together while you are dying. goooo science!

i think its for heavy people

Can someone make something like that, only with socks and shoes that put themselves on my feet?

Omg!!!

The world really is just f*****g lazy!

The time the chair took to repair itself, you could have called someone who fixes chairs or done the damn thing yourself!

and still have time to fix you a ham sandwhich.