Flatpack fear no more? Robot assembles IKEA chair frame
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-singapore-robots-ikea/flatpack-fear-no-more-robot-assembles-ikea-chair-frame-idUSKBN1HQ07KRobots in Singapore have completed a task many humans dread - assembling flat-packed IKEA furniture.
Sifting through pages of instructions and a jumble of screws and bolts to build the low-cost Swedish furniture may soon be a thing of the past given advances in technology, say researchers at the city-state’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
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scientists spent three years programming the robot - made of arms, grippers, sensors and 3D cameras - which assembled the frame of an IKEA dining chair in around 20 minutes....
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I've had issues with Ikea furniture, but it has never come close to three years to put it together.
