A Robot Helps To Put Together An IKEA Table

It's a start. Have you ever had trouble assembling IKEA furniture? Trying until you're convinced there must've been a screw that fell out or something and are the legs of this table backwards and look at that gelatinous blob-person on the instructions laughing at me? Well! This IKEA-furniture-constructing robot can help! Kinda. The robot, used for research published in Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, learns how to help with some guided instruction. If a person manu...