90 Miles From Tyranny : Watch Robots Attempt to Assemble Ikea Furniture

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Watch Robots Attempt to Assemble Ikea Furniture









I can think of few tasks that most people would rather relegate to a robot than assembling Ikea furniture. I personally love assembling Scandinavian stick furniture, but I suspect I’m in a minuscule minority. There is a reason why there are dozens of YouTube videos of people attempting to assemble Ikea furniture while drunk or high, little kids and old people attempting it, and other, similar scenarios engineered for confusion, frustration, and hilarity to ensue.

We can now add robots to that undignified list.




These Ikeabots were programmed by the Control Intelligence Robot Group at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore to assemble an Ikea STEFAN chair without any human intervention. After much coding, training, subtask perfecting, and a lot of trial and error, the dual robot arms were able to...
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1 comment:

  1. It would of been a better video if the robots High-Fived each other at the end

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