In recent years, roboticists have been finding that building Ikea furniture is actually a great way to teach robots how to handle the chaos of the real world, and now, a helpful robot can assist a human in assembling an Ikea bookcase.
. And now, a helpful robot can assist a human in assembling an Ikea bookcase by predicting what part they’ll want next and handing it over.
“It's one of these things that's easy to try—even if we break a couple of bookcases in the lab, it's not a big deal,” says University of Southern California roboticist Stefanos Nikolaidis, coauthor on a describing the research, which was presented in May at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation. “It's pretty cheap. And it's also something that we all have to do at some point in our life.”Nikolaidis and his colleagues began by studying how different people construct an Ikea bookcase.
They then had subjects do the assembly again, this time with a robot arm nearby to grab pieces for them. The researcher would log which pieces the person began with, establishing a pattern for the robot to clue into. “Let's say that you come in and you put the first shelf,” says Nikolaidis. “OK, the robot doesn't know that much. Then you pick the second shelf. And now you start putting the third shelf.
This robot is doing the same, only instead of using a bank of static images, it’s drawing on examples of, the order in which the humans pieced together shelves and supports, based on their preferences. “The robot knows that the next action that it should do is handing you the next shelf, with very, very high certainty,” says Nikolaidis.In the end, though, this research isn’t about developing highly specialized robots that come to your house and help you build bookcases.
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