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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Look, robots and artificial intelligence (AI) get a bad rap, from all the fuss around them taking over our jobs, to rising up and overthrowing humans. But some folks may rethink their positions after ...

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 ...

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 ...