26 01 2011 - FILMPJE | Giant robot prints chairs

We know that headline sounds totally absurd, but bear with us, because what we’ve got here will blow. Your. Mind.

The robot we speak of is Fanuc, a clunky, but speedy old machine late of a Chinese production line. The refrigerators: disused models ground up into bead-like bits. The chairs — the work of Dutch design student Dirk Vander Kooij — are made by melting the refrigerator bits, then tapping Fanuc to squeeze the resulting goo out of a tube, layer by layer in a pre-programmed sequence, as if decorating a cake. Two hours later, you’ve spawned a sturdy, modern little chair that looks like it came straight out of the Blu Dot catalog.

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