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Ever been confused, frustrated or just downright given up when trying to put together a piece of IKEA furniture? IKEA wants to fix that. The Swedish home furnishings retailer is launching a series of ...

The average twenty-something probably spends at least 20 hours of her life putting together Ikea furniture. Between the infuriating little wooden pegs, to the pieces left over at the end that almost ...

If you’re passionate about IKEA hacks and furniture assembly but want something off the beaten track, these online furniture stores are for you. For some people, the worst part of buying IKEA ...

Ikea is trying its hand at the gig economy. The Swedish home goods giant just bought on-demand freelance work app TaskRabbit for an undisclosed sum, the companies confirmed. Recode first reported the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I find innovation stories in America’s industrial heartland. Could augmented reality be the end of Ikea assembly headaches? My ...

Your browser does not support the video element. Ikea furniture can take hours to assemble. The complicated assembly instructions and occasionally missing pieces have ...

IKEA furniture assembly provides endless opportunity for couples to fight, but there is at least one argument that can be laid to rest thanks to science. New research says that men are slightly better ...

Here’s one way to tackle the dreaded task of assembling your Ikea furniture: Get a robot to do it for you. With some off-the-shelf robotics hardware and a substantial amount of programming, ...

James Vincent is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. It can be difficult to keep track of the progress being made in robotics, but one useful (if ...