If you’ve ever had the pleasure of building IKEA furniture, you’ve probably come to know that it can come with a very unique set of problems. Manuals don’t always offer exact instructions but instead ...

April 20 (UPI) --Scientists at a university in Singapore showed off the capabilities of their robots by having one of the machines assemble an Ikea chair. The Nanyang Technological University ...

An unexpectedly heavy cardboard box, filled with flat-packed formations. Seemingly superfluous pieces of particle board. A madness-inducing number of screws, nails, and washers, plus the lingering ...

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, have created algorithms that enable robots to construct an IKEA chair in approximately 20 minutes. The new robot arms are built ...

And there Ikea stood in front of 300,000 misshapen ironing boards. “These have a use!” someone proclaimed. That man received a raise, and the rest is history. The Jesper chair is an ingenious seat ...

Artificial intelligence has mastered something that humankind has failed at, repeatedly. An autonomous robot, designed by mechanical engineers in Singapore, can now assemble an IKEA chair from scratch ...

This is truly the droid you've been looking for ROBOTICS has conquered one of the most frustrating tasks known to man – assembling Ikea furniture. A new droid can build a flat-packed chair in 8 ...

Scientists in Singapore say the robot was made to do the delicate work quickly. Taking hours to set up IKEA furniture or fearing losing all the screws and fixtures could be a thing of the past, ...