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by psiops 406 days ago
I noticed that "a basic sofa" involves some placing some floating bricks if built in the order of the animation. It hints at the way this model generates the designs. The automated assembly of generated LEGO structures using robots would have serious trouble creating these designs I reckon.
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I came here to say that. I immediately thought: Wow, this works in the assembled version, but not the way the assembly is being animated. You would need to first build the base sofa layer from two levels so that the upper layer keeps the lower layer bricks in place. Only afterwards could it be put onto the legs.
Indeed, I would be very curious to see how their robots would actually build that sofa. Although the robots aren't really part of the model of course, they're just a little extra.