Rognan (robotic furniture)

2019: Announcement

At the beginning of June, 2019 IKEA provided robotic furniture which is intended for small-size apartments. A system under the name Rognan is developed together with the American company Ori Living.

Rognan represents a cabinet which are built in a bed, a desk and a sofa — they move forward as required. Thanks to castors a system moves about the room and divides it into two residential zones including, for example, wardrobe with departments for storage of things, the bedroom with a bed, the living room with a sofa and a study with the place for work behind the notebook. A transforming system is controlled by means of the touchpad.

The block is constructed on the robotic Ori platform and is compatible to a line of furniture of IKEA Platsa and also to the systems of "smart" illumination of cabinets and offices of IKEA Tradfri.

According to developers, Rognan can save additional 8 sq.m of living space: the 10.5-meter room becomes comparable on convenience from 18.5-meter.

Instead of doing furniture it is less, we transform it that you could use the necessary functions at some point — the representative of IKEA Seana Strawn says. — When you sleep, you do not need a sofa. When you use clothes, you do not need a bed.

IKEA provided a robotic small-size apartments furniture

Innovation at first will be available for sale in Japan and Hong Kong where owing to dense population and building apartments of the small area are widespread.

More detailed information on a product is going to be issued late in the summer 2019, and to begin sales — in the 2020th.

By the beginning of June, 2019 Ori attracted in total $7.1 million investments. The startup which is based in Boston specializes in development of robotic furniture. The first solutions of the company were on sale for $10 thousand. Rognan cost by the beginning of June, 2019 is not sounded.^[1]

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