Source: Tracy Staedter, Seeker.com, April 18, 2018
A pair of stationary robotic arms successfully executed the roughly 50 steps required to put together an IKEA STEFAN chair.
Anyone who’s ever assembled furniture from IKEA understands the daunting task at hand. The pile of loose parts, wonky shapes, and pages of instructions that are both rudimentary and confusing are enough to make you second guess your intelligence and spatial comprehension.
A new study in the journal Science Robotics shows that robots can do it just as well as humans. Built with off-the-shelf hardware, 3D cameras, and force sensors, two factory robot arms put together a STEFAN chair from IKEA in about 20 minutes.
Image Source: Francisco Suárez-Ruiz and Quang-Cuong Pham, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
