The furthest the scientists managed to get is to insert a piece of doweling into the end of one of the legs – something that takes the technology a painful minute and a half to achieve. Yet despite being some of the most advanced robotic equipment around, assembling a full chair still seemed beyond the robot.
Much like stairs posed a problem for the Daleks in Doctor Who, the Achilles Heel of modern intelligent robots appears to be the baffling world of IKEA furniture.Ī group of engineers set themselves the goal of developing a robot capable of undertaking this baffling task – by getting one to assemble a chair from the Swedish furniture store.įrancisco Suarz-Ruiz and Quang-Cuong Pham, from the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, are using two robotic arms equipped with grippers to assemble the IKEA chair.
While there are many who fear robots are on the verge of stealing our jobs and taking over the world, it seems they have a weak spot - flat packed furniture.
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