Platinum Sporting Goods, Fitness and Recreation Equipment Design · 2024
Rt9000 Massage Chair
by Shanghai Rongtai Health Tech Co., Ltd.
- A' Design Award 2024 Platinum Winner in Sporting Goods, Fitness and Recreation Equipment Design
- Awarded April 15, 2024
- CLIENT: Shanghai Rongtai Health Technology Corporation Limited
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 1,781,756
- Verification code AA6A298879 · Verify this award
About Rt9000 Massage Chair
RT9000 is a massage chair designed for use by all age groups. Multifunctional scissor doors, inspired by supercars, raise the armrests so users can enter and leave the seat easily and so the arms can be stretched. A dynamic split pressure relief system moves the legs and feet while the arms are extended, simulating postures such as a spacewalk. Sixty-four sets of airbags support blood circulation, and three rows of rollers in the base massage the feet. The chair identifies body parts from body curves and adjusts the massage intensity automatically.
Shanghai Rongtai Health Tech. Corp. Ltd's Rt9000 Massage Chair emerges from the contemporary intersection of wellness science and advanced industrial design, representing a significant achievement in the evolution of personal therapeutic equipment. The form language appears to draw upon aerospace and automotive design traditions, employing compound curves and faceted planes that suggest both technological sophistication and organic ergonomic intelligence. The designer demonstrates considerable skill in resolving the inherent tension between mechanical complexity—the chair's multiple articulating segments must accommodate varied body positions—and visual coherence, achieving a sculptural unity that transcends mere functional apparatus. The chromatic strategy proves particularly noteworthy: the warm ivory-cream primary surfaces create an inviting, domestic presence while charcoal structural elements provide visual grounding and define the mechanical architecture beneath. Rose-gold accent panels introduce subtle luxury coding without ostentation, while the cyan illuminated strip functions simultaneously as user interface element and design signature. The zero-gravity position demonstrated evokes medical research into spinal decompression and cardiovascular benefit, yet the overall aesthetic suggests sanctuary rather than clinical environment. One might observe how the enveloping cocoon-like headrest area creates a visual and perhaps psychological sense of protected retreat from external concerns. The integration of a display screen suggests intelligent programming capabilities while maintaining the chair's clean profile. This work invites consideration of how contemporary design increasingly addresses holistic human wellbeing, blending ancient wisdom about rest and restoration with cutting-edge materials and mechanisms.
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- Unique Properties
- RT9000, the first professional massage chair able to realize spacewalk in the industry, is applicable to all age groups. Thanks to its dynamic split pressure relief system and multifunctional scissor doors, the product allows for full limb stretching and total body relaxation, whose combination with advanced interaction technology ensures a comfortable, interesting experience.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- product dimensions, 1740 mm x 870 mm x 1243 mm
- Tags
- massage chair, dynamic split pressure relief system, multifunctional scissor doors, AIM intelligent cloud health system, full body stretching and massage
- Production Technology
- adjustable scissor doors, 4D Lingxi chip at millimeter level, flexible rail supporting stepless adjustment over a broader range of angles in both directions, fingerprint senseless recognition, 64 sets of airbags, smart APP connectivity
- Design Challenge
- The challenge lies in how to achieve targeted massage while simultaneously allowing for arm lifting and stretching, as well as independent leg and foot movements, to ensure full body relaxation. RT9000 simulates stretching postures like spacewalk and jump while providing massage service, standing out from the largely homogeneous market. It offers an intelligent, comprehensive personalized full body massage solution, to effectively alleviate common stress and health problems in modern life.
- Project Duration
- The product was developed in October 2021 in Shanghai, and launched in December 2023 in China.
- Operation Flow
- RT9000 is able to precisely identify different body parts based on the user’s body curves, and automatically adjust massage intensity. The dynamic split pressure relief system makes possible simultaneous leg and foot movements and arm stretching. Its combination with 64 sets of airbags promotes blood circulation to improve health of users. The base of the product is equipped with three rows of rollers and supports multiple modes to promote blood circulation in the feet via massage.
- Research
- Traditional massage chairs typically focus on the back of the torso and legs, neglecting the need for limb stretching, which fail to meet demands of the entire body, and always let users down due to outdated operational mechanisms and dull function configuration. To address that, RT9000 integrates multifunctional scissor doors with a dynamic massage system, to innovatively achieve arm and leg pulling, thereby realizing comprehensive full body relaxation and refreshment via professional massage.
- Inspiration
- Inspired by supercars, the design team integrated scissor doors into the massage chair, whereby the armrests can be raised to make it easy for users to get in or out of the massage chair and help to realize a new function of arm pulling, striking a balance between ease of use and practicality.
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