A robot that builds IKEA furniture in a snap

Machine made from off-the-shelf components constructs chair from a kit in less than 25 minutes.

Researchers in Singapore have designed a robot that can assemble a chair made by Swedish furniture company IKEA.

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Nature 556, 411 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-04779-w

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