Robot struggles to build IKEA furniture

Instead of building furniture themselves, robotics researchers at a Singapore university built a robot to build it for them.

The robot's tasks were broken down into three parts ("motion planning, object localization, and contact interactions") to build an IKEA chair.

Equipped with six cameras, arms and measuring capabilites, the robot was supposed to "feel its way through the task and measure how much force is necessary to move an object."

The process was to find a pin, grab it and insert into the hole on the corresponding piece, according to outerplaces.com.

But it wasn't successful.

While the robot was planned with complex algorithms, its motor skills and agility were simply not there.