A tech startup from California is freeing up floorspace in small apartments with robotic furniture that drops from the ceiling controlled by an AI "butler".

Bumblebee Spaces has designed a range of furniture and storage modules that can descend from and retract into the ceiling to change a room's function, or create more floorspace, at will.

Artificial intelligence scans each possession as it is placed in a storage unit, tracking each item's location and anticipating the users needs.

"You can retrieve your things without searching for it. There's zero cognitive load, in fact it becomes an assistant, a butler for the resident," Bumblebee Spaces co-founder Sankarshan Murthy told Dezeen.

"It knows where you've stored all your stuff and if you're on the way out your car keys, your shoes, whatever you need comes down. If it's going to be raining your umbrella comes down."
Murthy, an engineer who has worked at Apple and Tesla, developed the concept in response to the high rents on even the smallest apartments in San Francisco's Bay Area.

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