MIT Robot Assembles Furniture For You - Life Couldn't Get Easier!

With the extraordinary research going on in Artificial Intelligence, the human race ain't far away from having a world filled with robots doing almost all our chores. We already have robots that can perform critical medical surgeries, vacuum clean our houses, play football and what not. And recently at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), a team from MIT's Distributed Robotics Laboratory, unveiled an autonomous robot that could assemble IKEA furniture on its own. They are calling it the IKEAbot which isn't just one but two bots which work together to assemble pieces of a furniture.


The IKEAbot is built using a pair of KUKA YouBots, packing some real good hardware. The vital innovation in the robot is its software. The bots are given a set of CAD files with all the dimensions, geometry, number of holes and everything about the furniture. They use a custom object-oriented planning system to assemble the pieces, where they don't even know what the final design would look like.

Check out the following video where both the bots assemble a furniture.