Someday, your Ikea furniture might assemble itself | Ars Technica - 0 views
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Laurent Ricard on 08 Oct 13At a certain level of complexity and obligation, sets of blocks can easily go from fun to tiresome to assemble. Legos? K'Nex? Great. Ikea furniture? Bridges? Construction scaffolding? Not so much. To make things easier, three scientists at MIT recently exhibited a system of self-assembling cubic robots that could in theory automate the process of putting complex systems together