Home Transformers

Why buy multiple pieces of furniture, when you could have one piece of furniture that could transform itself into whatever you need at the moment—a chair, a sofa, a table? For that matter, why settle for static, inanimate furniture at all? This is the idea behind "Roombots," miniature modular robots that are something like Legos—except they're also autonomous, and can walk around.

This is a marvellous convenience for anyone wanting to live light. Moreover, the best part is that it would cut moving costs, by eliminating the need to rent a U-Haul. 

But, on reality check, I wonder, how feasible it would be. Living with one of these would require one to synchronize one's daily activities with robotic precision. What if one nodded off on a chair, reading a book, and needed a bed to lie down on instantly? I guess that person would have to wait till the modules reconfigured themselves into one. 

To circumvent that problem, however, one could procure several sets of these, just like one buys several pieces of furniture. Of course, that would defeat its very purpose.

(Via Co.Design)