Scientists created a robot that fixes everyone's biggest gripe with IKEA. It's weirdly mesmerizing.

Computer-aided design (CAD) systems are tried-and-true tools used to design many of the physical objects we use each day. But ...

As technology advances and robots learn new tricks like folding laundry, it makes people wonder, is my job safe? That is the name of an NPR series that looks at how tech is changing our work, and ...

Anyone who’s ever tried to assemble a piece of furniture from IKEA, has had at least one nervous breakdown and thought about going minimalist than deal with such frustration. You could always use a ...

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 ...

Imagine ordering a table from a furniture store that needs to be set up once it’s delivered. One day in the near future, a squad of modular Roombots will present themselves to set the table up for you ...

Robots have taken our jobs, learned our chores and beaten us at our own games. Now researchers in Singapore say they have trained one to perform another task known to confound humans: figuring out how ...

A team of MIT researchers created a speech-to-reality system that enables a robot to build furniture with just a simple ...

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