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.
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.
The IKEAbot isn't commercially available yet. You will have to build furniture the old conventional way for now, and expect this to remain the same for quite a few years. As discussions have spread here and around the globe about robots overtaking all our daily chores, do you think that this would make us lazy to a harmful extent in the goal of reducing human efforts in the future?
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Ankita KatdareIKEABot! It is a very interesting demonstration of enabling robots to not just "do something" but to also figure out what needs to be done. That gripper design is very interesting rotational compliance with rubber bands... neat. -
GeNNex_Looks good..
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