Look inside the $5,000-a-month San Francisco apartments with voice-activated beds and dressers that drop from the ceiling
Murthy said his company's modules are installed in some of the two-bedroom apartments at The Landing.
The furniture modules are 13 inches thick and organized Tetris-style against the ceiling.
They're not built into the concrete or drywall of a home. The modules are categorized as Fixtures, Furniture, and Equipment (FF&E,) a term used to describe movable furniture that's not permanently connected to a home.
The company offers king and queen-size beds, nightstands, dressers, desks, and deeper modules for storing things like luggage.
Artificial intelligence also works to learn from your behavior and to eventually interpret your needs, such as remembering where you put what.
"Our AI learns from your preferences and routine, then adapts to suit your life," reads the company website.
A series of sensors, which are similar to the kind used in garage doors, help make the machines aware of their surroundings.
The sensors also scan the space underneath the module before it descends, so if someone or something was in the way, it would remain in its lofted position.
Murthy told Business Insider that Bumblebee Spaces will sometimes work with homeowners to retrofit their homes with the modules.
But the startup is mostly focused on teaming up with multi-family developers to integrate the systems into apartment projects at a larger scale. The Landing is one such example of that.
And unlike a full ceiling installation at the startup's demo space, the units at The Landing are outfitted in more of an a la carte style.
Photos show retrofitted modules for the bed and for drawers that take up only part of the ceiling.
You can view The Landing's current offerings here.
Like most apartments built recently in San Francisco, the monthly rent for units at The Landing is on the pricier side.
That's a trend in the city as high construction costs, among other factors, result in much of the new housing being geared toward high-earning workers, as The Chronicle's J.K. Dineen reports.
The Landing is being marketed as "a seriously elevated urban village." There is a private rooftop park and terrace for residents.
Source: The Landing SF
There's also a wine bar and cafe, a fitness center with classes, Peloton bikes, and Mirror interactive devices, a pet spa, a bike repair station, and a "co-working lab & coding room."
Source: The Landing
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