For many, assembling Ikea furniture can be a frustrating experience. So, as a solution, Ikea is partnering with the service provider app, TaskRabbit. Customers in-store or online will be able to ...

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Last weekend, because of the unseasonably warm weather the wife and I decided to get our son a small (ish) trampoline. It seemed like a great idea and a nice project to enjoy the sun with. Upon ...

Having to assemble furniture from Ikea is about as fun as having to binge watch a season of Fuller House, so how cool would it be to have robots that could do the job? Researchers from Nanyang ...

People love Ikea furniture for its affordability but often dread putting it together. In 2013, the Swedish furniture giant came out with an easier solution that allows you to assemble furniture in ...

IKEA is known for its inexpensive furniture, but assembling it can be a daunting task. In 2017, IKEA acquired TaskRabbit, which lets users hire temporary workers through the TaskRabbit app to do ...

The stressful task of assembling flat-pack furniture looks set to become a thing of the past following the unveiling this week of a robot that can do it for you. Scientists at Nanyang Technological ...

April 20 (UPI) --Scientists at a university in Singapore showed off the capabilities of their robots by having one of the machines assemble an Ikea chair. The Nanyang Technological University ...

Could augmented reality be the end of Ikea assembly headaches? My first taste of the emerging technology this week offered the tantalizing hint that the answer might be "yes." AR is nothing new, of ...

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Going shopping at Ikea might fill you with ideas of how chic your living room could look, but nothing can prepare you for the inevitable chaos of assembling an entire couch set. Soon enough you’re ...