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'Transformer' rooms and robo-furniture are set to remake our homes – and lives – before our eyes

  • Written by Christian Tietz, Senior Lecturer in Industrial Design, UNSW
The Ori 'Cloud Bed' is lifted and lowered from a ceiling recess to create space that doubles as bedroom and living room. Ori/YouTube (screengrab)

With two-thirds of a global population of 9.4 billion people expected to live in urban areas by 2050, we can expect a change in the domestic living arrangements we are familiar with today.

In high-density...

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