Robotic furniture and automatic indoor sterilization

Luxury housing developers are swapping amenities for health and safety services that protect occupants from pathogens and make more intensive use of heavily-used interior space. Ori, a maker of robotic furniture that converts throughout the day, swapping out beds and desks to maximize space for current activities, reported a 4-fold increase in business in 2020. Other retrofits include "futuristic takes on prosaic features, like ultraviolet wands in air ducts, and “Ghostbusters”-inspired blasters to hose down Amazon boxes", all designed to eliminate virus particles in indoor air.

As pandemic fears fade, these adaptations are likely to become less urgent, but such features could become standard fare in luxury housing and slowly diffuse into the broader homebuilding market.