MIT has built a robot that can assemble IKEA furniture on its own!

Roboticists at MIT have created a robot that can put a flat-pack IKEA furniture together all by itself. It has a specialized gripper hand that can grab the pieces and put the product together with no human help.

All humans need to do is feed the robot a CAD file that describes the product (eg. How many pieces, what do they look like, where the screw holes are, etc). They do not need to be instructed how to do it. Just from knowing what the parts look like, their software can decipher how something needs to be put together.

Check out a video of the robot below.