Putting together Ikea furniture is a cruel test of mettle that most of us must brave sooner or later, but science has (finally) done something worthwhile by creating an Ikea-furniture-assembling robot ...

When an engineer chooses a single weld in the CAD file, the software automatically generates multiple lines of programming ...

The average twenty-something probably spends at least 20 hours of her life putting together Ikea furniture. Between the infuriating little wooden pegs, to the pieces left over at the end that almost ...

IKEA’s furniture-assembly instructions aren’t for everyone, although they’re meant to be. No mistranslated languages are involved, only a happy bubble person proceeding through a series of ...

For example, if the builder is holding the leg too far away from the robot, the robot could anticipate the movement and move toward the leg. So have no fear, soon you may have some assistance putting ...

If you can’t assemble IKEA furniture without wanting to insert a table leg in a plate glass window, don’t worry—you’re in good company. Robots have a hard time putting together IKEA products, too.

SINGAPORE (WPVI) -- Researchers in Singapore have developed a pair of robotic arms capable of performing one of the world's hardest tasks. Assembling Ikea furniture. Video from Singapore's Nanyang ...

LONDON -- A delivery of flat pack furniture can send people into a panic or reaching for the phone to call the nearest assembly service. That may soon be a thing of the past thanks to scientists at ...

James Vincent is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. It can be difficult to keep track of the progress being made in robotics, but one useful (if ...

During the White House's "We The Geeks" Google+ Hangout on robotics, a number of cutting-edge automatons -- like the IKEA Bot -- are on display. Nick Statt was a staff reporter for CNET News covering ...

If you’re still scared robots are taking over the world, don’t be—they’re also at home just trying to figure out how to put together that damn IKEA furniture. While the average person struggles to ...

IN 1997 it was chess. In 2016 it was the ancient game of Go. Now it seems computers have mastered a task that stretches the human brain to its limit. In a paper just published in Science Robotics, a ...