In a world where grown men and women still unashamedly play with Lego blocks, it makes perfect sense that sooner or later we’d want to start building our own furniture using the same kind of easy ...

Flatpack furniture is efficient to manufacture and inexpensive to transport, but it can also be a real hassle to put together. A collaboration between MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab and Milan design firm ...

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Surrounded by tiny screws, planks of wood, and pieces of paper bearing incomprehensible diagrams, we ...

To most people, the things Skylar Tibbits makes at MIT's Self-Assembly Lab looks like nothing more than scraps of stuff. But where others see bits of wood and swatches of fabric, Tibbits sees robots.