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)
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't came out into plain view. Darkington glimpsed a slim body and six short legs of articulated dull metal.'
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'I could look down at that face of carefully molded synthetic rubber, tinted the exact shade of the doctor's living flesh.' - Rog Philips, 1950.
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Boy Makes Biomimetic Turtle Robot
't came out into plain view. Darkington glimpsed a slim body and six short legs of articulated dull metal.'
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'I could look down at that face of carefully molded synthetic rubber, tinted the exact shade of the doctor's living flesh.'