The Japanese carmaker Nissan recently unveiled its “Intelligent Parking Chair”, an off-shoot of its self-parking technology derived from its cars experimenting with automatic steering.
Using modified Okamura chairs, these office seats automatically orient themselves and return to their assigned desks neatly, triggered only by a clap of the hands. These chairs are shown turning 360 degrees, and are tracked with the help of cameras placed in the room’s ceiling, generating a birds’ eye view on a computer that wirelessly transmits the chair’s position and its route to its destination.