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IKEA-Defeating Robot Helps Humans Assemble Furniture
USINFO | 2013-09-30 14:02
The robot isn’t autonomous; it can’t just read the instructions and do the whole thing for you (we wish). But it can learn what you want it to do when you take it through the movements you want it to perform, essentially providing an extra set of hands while the human builder performs the finer tasks. It’s not the hands-off furniture-building robot we’d hoped for, but it’ll do for now.
