Singaporean scientists have asked the question "Can robots assemble an IKEA chair?" and come back with enough of a "Yes" that The Register feels it time to call for robots to take this job away from humans. Take this job away from us! The boffins behind this breakthrough, assistant professor Pham Quang Cuong and a team of students, all of Nanyang Technological University, were cognizant of previous attempts at unpacking flat-pack kit that had used bespoke kit. So they instead used off-the-shelf robots and open-source code like the Point cloud library and gave them the job of assembling a "STEFAN" chair. As the video below shows, the bots clearly know Bob The Builder's couplet: "Can we build it?