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 ...

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.

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 ...

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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 ...

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.

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The stressful task of assembling flat-pack furniture looks set to become a thing of the past following the unveiling this week of a robot that can do it for you. Scientists at Nanyang Technological ...

Robots 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...