If you've had to move house often, or needed to live in compact spaces, you'll love this. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a way to produce flat-pack furniture using a robotic ...

It is one of life's greatest frustrations - the DIY flat-pack furniture which claims to be so simple to assemble it can be completed within minutes. In reality, however, there are few of us who can ...

A team of researchers at Switzerland’s Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have come up with an ingenious, origami-inspired robot that can turn itself into a huge number 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 ...

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 ...

Renters rejoice. Ikea furniture now has a wedge dowel that makes it quicker and easier to assemble and take apart — without an Allen key in sight. The news comes as a three-part BBC 2 series, ...

A robot wood-working team is making carpentry as easy as falling off a log. Jeffrey Lipton at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was inspired to make robots that keep hands away from blades ...