{"id":342385,"date":"2017-05-31T21:47:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T13:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=1497558"},"modified":"2017-05-31T21:47:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T13:47:51","slug":"ori-systems-brings-the-robotic-furniture-of-the-future-to-apartments-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/ori-systems-brings-the-robotic-furniture-of-the-future-to-apartments-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Ori Systems brings the robotic furniture of the future to apartments today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/216938984\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\">The Jetsons\u2019 fictional (and functional) home of the future is one step closer to reality with the launch of the first product from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orisystems.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Ori Systems<\/a>, an all-in-one robotic dresser, desk and bed product.<\/p>\n<p>Showrooming in luxury real estate developments all over the country, Ori is debuting its new, modular, and gorgeous-looking furniture that enables city-dwellers to do more with less space (I want one. Now.)<\/p>\n<p>The product of research from MIT\u2019s famous <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.media.mit.edu\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Media Lab,\u00a0<\/a>Ori\u00a0launched in 2015 as a way to spin out research being conducted by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.media.mit.edu\/people\/kll\/overview\/\" rel=\"noopener\">MIT professor Kent Larson<\/a>\u00a0and graduate student Hasier Larrea.<\/p>\n<p>Collaborating with the rockstar designer <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fuseproject.com\/people\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Yves B\u00e9har<\/a>, and building off of research that Larrea and Larson had worked on for four years, Ori\u2019s combined bed\/storage\/workspace units were designed to met the needs of folks who are trying to do more in increasingly cramped urban spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Taking their cue from the Urban Land Institute\u2019s blockbuster study, \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/uli.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/ULI-Documents\/MicroUnit_full_rev_2015.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Macro View on Micro Units,\u201d<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em>Ori\u2019s founders set out to design something that could be modular and take advantage of the latest technologies to make space saving as easy for urbanites as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Ori\u2019s got a retractable bed that can slide in or out at the push of a button from a wall mounted controller, an app on a smart phone, or by using a skill the company has programmed into Alexa.<\/p>\n<p>The question for Larrea was how to bring the principles of the robotics he\u2019d worked on for years as an electrical engineer into architecture. \u201cWe decided with CityHome [now Ori], that the researchers themselves would be the ones that would bring this to market,\u201d Larrea tells me.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at what and how to design its first product, Larrea says that he and his co-founder wanted to tackle three problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first was space\u2026 because its difficult to have two simultaneous activities going in a small space\u2026 the second was the damn bed and where to put it\u2026 and the third one is storage\u2026 there\u2019s never enough storage,\u201d in a studio apartment, Larrea says.<\/p>\n<p>Made from a poplar plywood, the system is lightweight and sturdy. Although it\u2019s electrical, if the power goes out, the system is wheeled and lightweight enough that people can change the configuration of the furniture manually.<\/p>\n<p>Ori Systems furniture is designed to be modular and as close to flat pack as possible. It\u2019s not impossible to envision this as something you buy from the coolest Ikea on the planet, but unfortunately, consumers will have to wait a while before an Ori Systems product will show up on any store shelves.<\/p>\n<p>For now the company is partnering with big name real estate developers to bring the furniture to market and really show off what Ori\u2019s crazy robot furniture can do.<\/p>\n<p>The company is announcing pre-orders today and will showcase 1,000 systems across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Systems start at a hefty price tag of around $10,000. Surprisingly, Larrea says that the biggest cost isn\u2019t the robotics in the furniture, but the cost of the furniture itself. The Ori-equipped studio apartments in core cities like San Francisco, New York and Boston will rent for roughly $3,000 a month, Larrea says.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a list of the cities and buildings that are going to have Ori Systems in them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Boston, MA \u2013 Hines at the Meriel Marina Bay, Samuels &amp; Associates at the Continuum and Skanska at the Watermark Seaport<\/li>\n<li>Chicago, IL \u2013 Tandem Development\u2019s MODE Logan Square Apartments<\/li>\n<li>Columbus, OH \u2013 Crawford Hoying\u2019s Bridge Park<\/li>\n<li>Harrison, NJ \u2013 DeBartolo Development\u2019s Steel Works<\/li>\n<li>Miami, FL \u2013 ZOM USA\u2019s Monarc at Met3<\/li>\n<li>New York, NY \u2013 Brookfield Property Partners L.P.\u2019s The Eugene<\/li>\n<li>San Francisco, CA \u2013 UDR Apartments\u2019 Channel Mission Bay<\/li>\n<li>Seattle, WA<\/li>\n<li>Washington DC \u2013 Valor Development\u2019s The Vintage<\/li>\n<li>Vancouver, BC \u2013 Bosa Properties\u2019 Bluesky Chinatown<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By rolling out through property developers, real estate companies can show off that they can have more price per square foot by pitching an Ori System, and Ori can get initial products in the hands of customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThink about it as an appliance\u2026 an appliance for space,\u201d says Larrea. \u201cThis changes the design paradigm completely. We came from a paradigm where we had to adapt to spaces instead of having spaces that adapt to us\u2026 We consider ourselves the brains and the brawn for developing the spaces of the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/05\/wide-shot.jpg?w=680\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/05\/wide-shot.jpg?w=680 680w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/05\/wide-shot.jpg?w=1360 1360w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/05\/wide-shot.jpg?w=150 150w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/05\/wide-shot.jpg?w=300 300w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/05\/wide-shot.jpg?w=768 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/>&nbsp;Ori&#8217;s modular robotic bed, storage, desk furniture brings apartments one step closer to the Jetsons&#8217; (and it&#8217;s pretty!). <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/05\/31\/ori-systems-brings-the-robotic-furniture-of-the-future-to-apartments-today\/?ncid=rss\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=d2KAixZ0oTg:lgZjLIuF6gw:2mJPEYqXBVI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?d=2mJPEYqXBVI\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=d2KAixZ0oTg:lgZjLIuF6gw:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=d2KAixZ0oTg:lgZjLIuF6gw:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=d2KAixZ0oTg:lgZjLIuF6gw:-BTjWOF_DHI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?i=d2KAixZ0oTg:lgZjLIuF6gw:-BTjWOF_DHI\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=d2KAixZ0oTg:lgZjLIuF6gw:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?i=d2KAixZ0oTg:lgZjLIuF6gw:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=d2KAixZ0oTg:lgZjLIuF6gw:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Techcrunch\/~4\/d2KAixZ0oTg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[59,66,26],"class_list":["post-342385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-media","tag-techcrunch","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}