Nissan's self-parking robot chairs tidy up offices - BBC News

Car giant Nissan has developed robotic office chairs that tidy themselves away when people clap their hands. Cameras placed around the office tell the chairs where they are, so they can gather around tables.
Nissan developed the furniture, which it has no plans to sell, while working on its own self-driving car technology.

[Skely]

Imagine you're in a meeting and someone disagrees with you so you clap and the chair just speeds towards the window

[shannongillespie]

This is great. As a person who organizes conference room meetings regularly, I'd welcome it. Most people do not push their chair all the way back in. Also, the cleaning staff have to pull out every chair or stool to vacuum or sweep under desks and tables.

[dorxlab]

Imagine the moment after a standing ovation 😂😂😂😂😂

[LAMikeSilva]

As you can see--- the end effects are that all the chairs line up and it looks good !!! Sometimes as an Architect, the only thing you can control is the "nice alignment of the chairs" at the counters of the building departments. This is a significant help to this desire to have the built environment organized and lined up, the way it should be !!!
The first time I did this (manually) in a large building department lobby, people were backing away from me-- I did explain that it will look better when I am done, and it did. I could almost hear a clapping/cheer as the door to the lobby closed behind
The organizing chair challenge !
LAMike, I am going back to work.

[YineHea]

Weirdly I was imagining chairs cleaning the table or something. Now that would be tidying the office.

[prototypekev]

Combine it with a roomba and it can clean the office before it returns to the table 😂

[johngreene]

Great for restaurants and event halls!!!

[Blank]

They should put the zero gravity seats on the bases

[cherduece]

What happens in the case of a standing ovation?

[hi-ntbu]

This reminds me of that hover chairs from wall e

[QWERGOLD]

Gimme a high 5
everybody in the room: not again

[jen]

Am I the only one who looked this up to one up my parents?

[Nifelheim]

¿what is the sense of this If There will be robots sit on that chairs?

[ivanthomson]

Is it really that hard for people to put a chair back after using it?

[jbtx]

So no more clapping in the board room meetings, eh?

[thanhphong]

I'm in Vietnam. I want to buy this chair. people help me. How much money?

[atizeg]

Combine with a hoover and let them to wonder around a bit.

[Blackwell-III]

One man's improvement is another man's inconvenience. Cars for example, To me simplicity is better. Give me a 1970's car any day

[atillathefun]

Nissan has been making some seriously questionable decisions recently.

[klikbayt]

And this would be like $3, 999.99 tax not included