Description
The first volume of the Adaptive Environments series focuses on Robotic Building, which refers to both physically built robotic environments and robotically supported building processes. Physically built robotic environments consist of reconfigurable, adaptive systems incorporating sensor-actuator mechanisms that enable buildings to interact with their users and surroundings in real-time. These require Design-to-Production and Operation chains that are numerically controlled and (partially or completely) robotically driven. From architectured materials, on- and off-site robotic production to robotic building operation augmenting everyday life, the volume examines achievements of the last decades and outlines potential future developments in Robotic Building.
Table of Contents
From Architectured Materials to the Development of Large-scale Additive Manufacturing.- Robotic Fabrication Beyond Factory Settings.- Exploring the Industrial Ramifications of Architectural Robotics.- Human-Robot Collaboration.- Robotic Building as Integration of Design-to-Robotic-Production & Operation.- Swarm Robotics, or: The Smartness of 'a bunch of cheap dumb things'.- Adaptive Structures.- Why Make the World Move?.- Inhabiting Adaptive Architecture.
