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Notes from the field

Notes from the field

Robots can assemble IKEA furniture

Robots can assemble IKEA furniture

Assembling an Ikea chair in 20 minutes, rather than the 5 that a person takes, doesn’t seem like much of an advance. But while computers excel at trigonometry and logic games like chess, evolution’s billion year head start on interacting with the physical environment means that advances like this are drawing us (very) slowly closer to a world where robots can perform menial but unpredictable physical tasks.
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Cower before your silicon overlords, puny humans

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2018-04-20

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