Beware IKEA: Solid knitted three-dimensional furniture could be a reality

Solid knitting is still in its infancy, but it's a technology with the potential to revolutionize how we create furniture and shoes.

Think of the possibility that allows fabricating furniture through knitting rather than traditional assembly. Where your shoes aren’t manufactured, but crafted stitch by stitch. This isn’t science fiction, but it could surprisingly be the future of fabrication.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have already developed a prototype machine, which is currently capable of knitting triangular or rectangular prisms in various sizes. Years later in 2018, he began building a solid knitting machine. Hirose completed a basic version of his knitting machine in 2020 but faced delays due to the pandemic. He joined the Textiles Lab in 2022 and began a robotics Ph.D.

“It can be hard to wrap your head around the concept. But it’s a very cool idea, and one that has a lot of promise,” said James McCann, leader of the Carnegie Mellon Textiles Lab.

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