Beware IKEA: Solid knitted three-dimensional furniture could be a reality

Innovative 'solid knitting' machine builds 100% reconfigurable objects

A new materials technique has taken cues from Grandma's yarn bag and cutting-edge technology, and it could see us 'solid knitting' whole furniture sets, as well as the fabrics that cover them. ...

3D knitting could make solid but soft furniture

A hand-knit 3D cube. Credit: Carnegie Mellon University If the art of knitting wasn’t mind-boggling enough, researchers have designed a prototype machine that can knit in 3 dimensions. They’ve ...

Researchers introduce knitted furniture

Yuichi Hirose has a dream—a dream that someday everyone will have access to a machine capable of knitting furniture.

Solid knitting: a different spin on 3D printing that can make furniture out of yarn

Meet solid knitting, 3D printing's close cousin that makes sophisticated solid objects out of yarn that are both sustainable and reconfigurable.

Watch ut IKEA: CMU Researchers eye knitted furniture

Yuichi Hirose has a dream — a dream that someday everyone will have access to a machine capable of knitting furniture.  Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Yuichi Hirose has a dream — ...