The compact robot enables people with limited mobility to navigate complicated environments where wheeled devices can't go.

When climbing stairs, the front legs first test the height and pull the chair up, while the rear legs push their weight ...

LONDON -- 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 ...

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 ...

Going shopping at Ikea might fill you with ideas of how chic your living room could look, but nothing can prepare you for the inevitable chaos of assembling an entire couch set. Soon enough you’re ...

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Assembling IKEA furniture is perhaps not the most popular of past times, but homemakers could soon gain a helping hand from a dexterous new robot. Developed at the Nanyang Technological University ...

Scientists in Singapore say the robot was made to do the delicate work quickly. Taking hours to set up IKEA furniture or fearing losing all the screws and fixtures could be a thing of the past, ...

This “office chair” from Ypsilon looks like it is ready to transform into a kitten-eating robot at any second. All of those knobs and levers don’t morph this thing into a robot, they simply adjust the ...