I can't find any more information about this self-healing chair, except for the following amazing video.
(Self-Healing Chair)
This is not a new story (the video was uploaded in 2007), but I seem to have missed it.
Science-fiction writers have been interested in the idea of self-healing machines for quite a while. Check out the self-healing buildings from J.G. Ballard's 1962 short story The Thousand Dreams of Stellavista and the repair drones from James P. Hogan's The Two Faces of Tomorrow.
Scroll down for more stories in the same category. (Story submitted 5/26/2011)
Tactile Skin Supplier Map
'What strange sensitivity! What an amazing development of science was manifested in every move and act and word of this Robot!' - Ray Cummings, 1931.
DIY Robot Scorpion Crushes It
'...it raised its front end off the ground and waved its antennae at them, then raised one armoured claw as if to snip them out of the sky.' - Neal Asher, 2008.
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Tactile Skin Supplier Map
'What strange sensitivity! What an amazing development of science was manifested in every move and act and word of this Robot!'
Orb Nomad Zero-Emission Electric Aircraft
'That explains how it was so easy for me to remain motionless in midair or to perch on a flagpole in imitation of a giant bird, even in the windy city of Chicago.'
DIY Robot Scorpion Crushes It
'...it raised its front end off the ground and waved its antennae at them, then raised one armoured claw as if to snip them out of the sky.'