Normal Technology · Bed-Car 001
It stays still while you sleep. When you wake, it goes.
25 km/h, under 35 dB, 120 km of range — from the bedroom to the street, and anywhere after that.
02Why a bed
For a hundred years, getting far meant folding people into seats and seats into metal boxes. Nobody asked whether the bed you already lie on could do the moving.
Normal Technology's first product is that question, built.
FOR A DIFFERENT LIFE
Your address stops being your life. Ten minutes between classes, forty at lunch, two in the morning after a late shift, a weekend at the coast — lie down and you're home. It doesn't go fast. 25 km/h is exactly enough to see the trees.
FOR STAYING PUT
The flat you've lived in for forty years stays yours. The hospital is three kilometres away, the market eight hundred metres, your daughter's building is the next block over. The bed goes downstairs, across, and comes back. You sit, or lie down, or do nothing at all.
One bed, two lives. The same machine.
03Take it apart
Take the bed-car apart and you'll find a real bed and a real chassis. They share 2.1 × 1.4 metres, and one rule: if any layer fails, it is still, first of all, a bed.
Zoned climate mattress · zero gravity · posture sensing
±4°C · 0–12° · on-deviceAerospace aluminium · 300 kg payload · 105 kg kerb
28 joints · folds to 1.4 × 0.75 m120 km range · 2.2 kW power out
LFP · IP67 · removable45 cm power lift · four-column sync · anti-pinch
38–92 cm · 0.1 s rebound25 km/h · under 35 dB · torque vectoring
independent · 12° gradient04Abilities
Six abilities, all in service of one thing: you never have to prepare for the fact that it moves.
Not fast. Fast enough. 25 km/h is the rhythm of a bike lane; torque fills in on hills, so 120 kg still climbs 12°.
SPEED · 25 KM/HIt parks itself downstairs. Twenty saved spots, an automatic 8 km/h after dark, and the corridor lights come on as it goes.
PARKING · L3Four-chamber hubs and a decoupled suspension read 33.6 dB at 25 km/h. It won't wake the person in the next room. Or you.
NOISE · 33.6 DB4.5 hours on a household socket, a week of commutes. 2.2 kW back out: a fridge and a ventilator for ten hours when the power fails.
RANGE · 120 KMSeparate left and right zones, 4°C apart. Zero gravity from 0 to 12°. Posture sensing happens on the device — no upload, no account.
SLEEP · ±4°CMillimetre-wave sensing at the bed's edge gives a 0.2-second warning. Side airbags inflate in 0.3 s. The call button uses its own cellular link.
SAFETY · 0.3 S05Aging is the default
We didn't build a senior version. A bed should already require no stepping over, no bending, no sequence to remember. The difference is that when the user is 78, those details decide whether they can still live alone.
I don't want to go into a home. I've lived in this flat for forty years — why would I leave?
Ms. Chen, 78, Hangzhou · user interview
We've kept that sentence for three years. So the first version of the bed-car doesn't begin with how a young commuter gets to work. It begins with a question: can a bed take an old woman downstairs?
The surface lowers to 45 cm, ten below a standard bed, and rises to 52 cm to help you stand, so your knees don't do the work. One button, and it won't pinch if you press the wrong one.
Lift, go, call. Raised, backlit, 24 pt type. You can find them without looking. Voice is a bonus, never the only door.
Capped at 8 km/h after 21:00. The night light travels with the bed and lights the corridor three metres ahead. A person, or a cat: stopped in 0.3 seconds.
Bedroom to living room, bathroom, front door: teach it once. It works offline. Data stays on the device unless you choose to share it with family.
06:40 — 22:30 · HANGZHOU
The surface drops to 45 cm. She sits down, presses Balcony. The 6:40 sun lands at the foot of the bed.
Parked by the window, zero gravity at 12°, 26°C. Her granddaughter calls; she props the phone on the bed's mount.
Three kilometres along the bike lane, never above 12 km/h. A nurse meets her at the door; the bed parks itself in the shade.
Night mode, 8 km/h. The corridor lights stay on until she's inside.
06Numbers
Same conditions throughout: 75 kg load, 25°C, flat asphalt. We'd rather give you a number you can reproduce than one that looks good.
Options: quick-release canopy, lift tailgate, bed mount. Canopy and tailgate are not included in kerb weight.
07Patents
Six granted patents covering folding, climate control, edge sensing, balance, silence and the lift. Open any certificate.
08Pricing
Prices include the 8 kWh battery and the home power-output module; canopy and lift tailgate are extra. Mainland China prices include tax; the global edition is settled in USD.
Dorms, small flats, a nap between classes. Wherever a bed fits, it parks.
¥10,000
battery included · China price includes tax
The daily-commute home edition. What you're paying for is the part it handles without you.
¥100,000
battery and power-out included · home install
The global flagship. Twin batteries, all-terrain suspension, and a phone line with a person on it.
$100,000
settled in USD · global shipping and certification
ALL MODELS · 30-MINUTE TEST LIE · NO SALES PITCH · PRICES AS LISTED
09Questions
Something else? Write to hello@smileforsmart.com, or come and lie down for ten minutes.
Standard is 2.1 × 1.4 m. A typical 1.6 × 1.5 m residential lift takes it as-is. Below that, folded it's 1.4 × 0.75 m and two people can carry it. For walk-ups we recommend Pro's home installation — someone will check the doors and corners first.
Below 25 km/h it's grouped with powered wheelchairs and non-motorised vehicles in most places, but the rules vary. We provide a local compliance note at delivery and two hours of at-home training; Pro Max ships with the certification paperwork for your country.
IP54 for the vehicle, so light rain is fine. The seat takes a quick-release canopy in three seconds; it folds down to a 1.4 m pole. The battery is IP67 and lifts out to charge indoors.
She doesn't need one. Lift, go, call are three physical buttons by the bed; voice is optional. The call button uses a built-in cellular module, not your Wi-Fi. The app is only for family who want to see where she is.
One year on Standard, five on Pro, lifetime structural on Pro Max. 48-hour call-outs in 38 cities. If a layer fails, it reverts to being a bed: it won't drive, but it will still be somewhere to sleep.
Test lie
Thirty minutes, downstairs or in our showroom. Bring the position you actually sleep in; we'll handle the rest.
