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.
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