Autonomous Robots 'May' Convey Mastered The Assembly Of Ikea Furniture

Just equally Facebook could non live on for certain that Zuckerberg 2.0 could decease a Turing examination until they sat him inwards front end of Congress, then robots must get together IKEA furniture.
Or something.
I simply wanted to purpose the Turing examination line—appropriated from The Register—before it gets besides stale.

From IEEE Spectrum:

Robots Continue Attempting to Master Ikea Furniture Assembly
These robots are slow, careful, as well as successful, making them means ameliorate than humans at assembling an Ikea chair

Apparently, 1 of the standards past times which nosotros should live on measure the progress of useful robotic manipulation is through the assembly of Ikea furniture. With its minimalistic as well as affordable Baltoscandian pattern coupled amongst questionably creditable promises of effortless assembly, Ikea has managed to convince generations of inexperienced as well as desperate immature adults (myself included) that nosotros tin ambit the axe pretend to live on grownups past times buying as well as putting together our ain furniture. It’s never equally like shooting fish in a barrel equally that infuritatingly calm footling Ikea manual dude makes it look, though, as well as inwards price of things nosotros wishing robots would solve, Ikea article of furniture assembly has ended upward means higher on the priority listing than maybe it should be.

We’ve seen a multifariousness of robotic systems tackle Ikea inwards the past, but today inwards Science Robotics is (perhaps for the start time) a to a greater extent than oft than non off-the-shelf organisation of a few arms as well as basic sensors that tin ambit the axe seat together the frame of a Stefan chair kit autonomously(ish) and from scratch.

This enquiry comes from the Control Robotics Intelligence (CRI) grouping at NTU inwards Singapore, as well as they’ve been working on the whole Ikea chair assembly affair for a while. First, they had to learn robots to insert those wooden pins that Ikea uses to connect parts to 1 another:...

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...IkeaBot inwards detail is notable because it’s fully autonomous— the organisation doesn’t take away human input of whatever sort, non fifty-fifty instructions. Rather, it uses a reasoning organisation to decide the best means to gibe all of the parts together, utilizing all available holes for fasteners as well as all available parts, as well as follows its ain optimized assembly technique to halt upward amongst a slice of article of furniture that ends upward beingness what Ikea intended it to live on well-nigh past times default.

The assembly procedure from CRI is non quite that autonomous; "although all the steps were automatically planned as well as controlled, their sequence was hard-coded through a considerable engineering effort."...MORE

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