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 ...

There’s a love-hate relationship we all have with IKEA. For the cost of an affordable, decent-looking Swedish furniture, you understand that you have to put in the work to assemble the full set. But ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Researchers at MIT have created a robot capable of constructing furniture and other large objects from reusable building blocks based solely on spoken commands. This innovative technology has the ...

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 ...

Here’s one way to tackle the dreaded task of assembling your Ikea furniture: Get a robot to do it for you. With some off-the-shelf robotics hardware and a substantial amount of programming, ...

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 ...

Nick Statt is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a decade. It’s easy to fret over the impending robotic invasion, what with ...