architectural robotics

In-situ Fabricator: An autonomous construction robot

NCCR Digital Fabrication (DFAB) 09 Oct 2015

Digital fabrication enables the seamless combination of digital design with physical construction processes. To fully exploit this emerging technology within architecture, robotic fabrication must be ...

Rock Print: A zero-waste 3D-printed structure made only of rock and thread

Marianne Lucien and ETH Zurich 07 Oct 2015

Inspired to take 3D printing technology to new heights, ETH Zurich and MIT researchers create "Rock Print" -- a full-scale architectural installation on display at the Chicago Architecture Biennial u...

Watch flying machines weave a rope bridge you can walk on

Hallie Siegel 18 Sep 2015

[tweetquote]Using quadrocopters and some rope, researchers have woven together a bridge strong enough to walk across.[/tweetquote] Made at the ETH Zurich Flying Machine Arena in Switzerland, the bridg...

Soft robotics for adaptive building facades

ETH Zurich 09 Jun 2015

By Arno Schlüter Today, building envelopes tend to be static and unable to adapt to changing conditions. Now, for the first time, an adaptable façade has been used for the newly inaugurated House o...

Architectural robots: The shape of the robots that will shape your home

Petr Novikov and DOM 21 May 2015

While robots are being deployed in factories at a high pace, their presence on construction sites is close to nil. However, there are many architectural robotics research projects in academia, and du...

Transforming robots to transform your room

NCCR Robotics 24 May 2014

In the future, Roombots could replace furniture (Biorobotics Laboratory, EPFL). The word “robot” conjures up many different things to many people, but how many of them immediately think of furnit...