The promise of robotic furniture is that it can turn single rooms into multipurpose spaces. To the extent that they work, they could help blunt the rise in what Americans pay for housing, and alter ...

This is the future of furniture. If you've ever looked around your home and thought, "I just wish I had one more room, or just a few more square feet of space," you're in luck—IKEA's new robotic ...

Furniture makers are welcoming their new robotic masters. In a modern spin on the Murphy bed, architects, designers and inventors seeking to use technology to maximize use of small spaces have ...

As cities boom living space for many is shrinking and Rognan’s robotic furniture will help to make confined spaces more livable. As a recent article reports: “IKEA is collaborating with Ori, an ...

More Americans are squeezing into smaller spaces. A new survey from RentCafe finds the average size of an apartment is down more than 50 square feet compared to a decade ago. Architect Eric Bieber now ...

Researchers at MIT have created a robot capable of constructing furniture and other large objects from reusable building blocks based solely on spoken commands. This innovative technology has the ...

MIT's Media Lab and designer Yves Béhar have partnered to create Ori, a smart furniture line and phone app for micro-apartments that transforms a living space into a bedroom or living room - all at ...

Yves Béhar is the face of smart tech design. His work on various projects -- most notably Jawbone and the August Smart Lock-- has earned him and his Fuseproject studio awards and name recognition in ...

There has long been a trade-off associated with dense urban areas. In exchange for the action and vitality of city living, people often compromise on space. If you’re spending most of your time ...

Options have come a long way from the Murphy bed, offering solutions when developers feel forced to build smaller apartments. Doing more with less is the name of the game now more than ever in home ...

Our homes are, as comedian George Carlin put it, just a place for our stuff. But what if, asks a new generation of startups, all that stuff could just…disappear? Inventors, architects and designers ...

Anyone who’s ever tried to assemble a piece of furniture from IKEA, has had at least one nervous breakdown and thought about going minimalist than deal with such frustration. You could always use a ...