You might not've realized it as you groggily rolled out of bed this morning, but you are now living in the future: Roboticists at MIT have created a robot that can autonomously assemble flat-pack IKEA ...

Forget about frustrating little wooden pegs, screws, bolts, and head-scratching instructions. The furniture of the future is easy as can be to assemble and disassemble, and it does away with literal ...

Ikea, a Swedish company famous for its flat-pack furniture and meatballs, has bought TaskRabbit, the Uber for getting people to do random chores for you. The wholly unexpected move pushes Ikea into a ...

Putting together flat-pack furniture can be arduous and frustrating. So why not let robots do it instead? A pair of robot arms can now assemble an IKEA chair in just a few minutes, and without arguing ...

The stressful task of assembling flat-pack furniture looks set to become a thing of the past following the unveiling this week of a robot that can do it for you. Scientists at Nanyang Technological ...

We’ve seen the remarkable programmable materials coming out of MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab for years–things like magnetic chairs that could snap together in a fish tank, or textiles that could flex ...

Everyone’s favorite Swedish flat-park furniture line has been the butt of many a joke for years; baffling cartoon assembly instructions, crazy tools, and missing screws, nuts and various bolts. But ...

Learn how to pick the most environmentally friendly, ready-to-assemble furniture. Before Ikea became a leading source for house fittings, buying any item of furniture meant hauling it home in a truck, ...

IKEA furniture assembly provides endless opportunity for couples to fight, but there is at least one argument that can be laid to rest thanks to science. New research says that men are slightly better ...

Hotukdeals.com, in acknowledging that putting Ikea furniture together can be quite stressful at times, was curious as to which item had people throwing their hands up in frustration the most. They ...

The pair of side chairs I ordered arrived in boxes so flat I thought surely I had gotten the wrong items. Then again, I usually order furniture that comes assembled. I had ordered the matching set of ...

You might not've realized it as you groggily rolled out of bed this morning, but you are now living in the future: Roboticists at MIT have created a robot that can autonomously assemble flat-pack IKEA ...