Reuters Video: Flatpack fear no more? Robot assembles Ikea chair frame

Duration: 01:25, Published 20 Apr 2018

Robots in Singapore have completed a task many humans dread — assembling flat-packed Ikea furniture. Sifting through pages of instructions and a jumble of screws and bolts to build the low-cost Swedish furniture may soon be a thing of the past given advances in technology, say researchers at the city-state's Nanyang Technological University. Sonia Legg reports. — Reuters