Oh, IKEA. How we love you, and yet how we inevitably need a cocktail when we try to assemble your furniture (or, in Ryan Reynold's case, a cold beer). Some people admittedly seem to be naturals at ...

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(CNN) -- 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 ...

Having to assemble furniture from Ikea is about as fun as having to binge watch a season of Fuller House, so how cool would it be to have robots that could do the job? Researchers from Nanyang ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Anyone who has ever assembled IKEA furniture -- or had to disassemble ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's no secret that we love IKEA for its budget-friendly, versatile furniture. But we can't ignore that those positives compete with its reputation for selling some items that are difficult to build.

The assembly itself only takes about nine minutes — the robots spend the other 11 plotting (how they will proceed with the chair, and not world dominion, for now). They use this planning time to ...

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 ...