---
title: "Nissan Built a Fleet of Semi-Autonomous Desk Chairs"
description: "Your office is lame."
date: "2016-02-15"
modified: "2016-02-15"
authors:
  - name: "Max Prince"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/max-prince"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/2188/nissan-built-a-fleet-of-semi-autonomous-desk-chairs"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Nissan"
---

# Nissan Built a Fleet of Semi-Autonomous Desk Chairs

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Working at Nissan would be neat. Keys to the [Heritage Collection at Zama](<https://speed.academy/nissan-heritage-collection/>), employee lease incentives on a 600-horsepower NISMO GT-R. Maybe the occasional trip to the [Nürburgring for a lap record](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VPm3CZiQjc>). Oh, and desk chairs. Really, really *smart* desk chairs.

That’s the Japanese automaker’s latest creation. In a fit of restlessness and/or brilliance, Nissan engineers hacked the standard five-wheel rolling office chair, integrating the company’s self-parking autonomous technology. Controlled via wall-mounted motion cameras and Wi-Fi, these Roomba-esque seat pods scoot themselves, tucking tidily under a desk or conference room table. They make The Clapper look Amish.

The chairs come from Okamura, an industrial manufacturing outfit located near Nissan headquarters in Yokohama. While Okamura does have a history of transport design (it produced locomotive torque converters, then co-developed Japan's first postwar aircraft, the N-52) semi-autonomous seating isn’t consumer product, just a promotional item. Still, a fleet of self-returning chairs is one hell of a party trick.

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