If you're going to 3D-print furniture, you're going to need something bigger than your average 3D printer. Case in point: Sylvain Charpiot and his upstart company Drawn have taken a robotic arm that was once used to assembled cars and rigged it instead to act as a large-scale 3D printer that can extrude everything from small pieces of home decor to full-size chairs.
Late last month, he took things a step further and launched a Kickstarter campaign to expand the company, which has already passed its goal of €15,000 ($16,584 USD) with 21 days left to go. With that funding, Charpiot plans to take the robotic arm (which has been named Galatéa) on a tour of trade shows and hopefully sign up a few clients.
Apart from printing rewards for Kickstarter backers, Charpiot sees the real potential in Galatéa being the ability to print objects for designers and home decorators or corporate clients. He even plans to bring Galatéa to the U.S. to print the rewards for U.S. backers locally, something Charpiot says would be a key selling point for all of the products eventually produced by the company.
You can see the arm in action in the Kickstarter video below.
[via Gizmodo]
