Imagine if our cities were built by fleets of flying robots. A group of robot helicopters were programmed to lift and stack 1500 polystyrene bricks into a six metre-high tower at the FRAC Centre in Orléans, France. Watch the movie » More »
Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed at the FRAC Centre in Orléans, flying robots created by Swiss architects Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello D’Andrea assemble a six metre-high tower from polystyrene bricks. Watch the movie »
Flying robots will assemble a six metre-high tower at the FRAC Centre in Orléans, France, next month. More »
How might our homes change if they had to accommodate robots too? More »
Two of our most popular movies on Dezeen Screen this month featured a robot that wakes its owner then poos on the floor and rioting robots on the streets of London, so we’ve compiled Dezeen’s ten most popular stories about robots. More »
Seoul designer Jeongmi Lee has designed a conceptual domestic robot that steals your duvet in the morning and poos all over the floor. Watch the movie on Dezeen Screen. Update 31/07/11: see Dezeen’s top ten stories about robots. More »
Dezeen Screen: Robots of Brixton is a sci-fi animation by Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Kibwe Tavares in which a downtrodden robot workforce battles with police against a backdrop of dystopian architecture in scenes reminiscent of the 1981 Brixton riots in London.
Tavares, who has now set up animation and architectural imagery studio www.factoryfifteen.com, made the film as his final design project for his masters degree. Watch the movie »
Update 31/07/11: see Dezeen’s top ten stories about robots.
Hong Kong artist and designer Kacey Wong has designed another topical robot-shaped survival suit, this time intended to protect people from radiation leaking from nuclear power stations. More »
Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed by Robert Andriessen of Designguide.tv, designer Dirk Vander Kooij explains his robot that prints chairs made of recycled refrigerators. The project was one of three winners at this year’s DMY Awards, announced at a ceremony in Berlin last night. Watch the movie »
Milan 2011: Italian designer Fabio Novembre will present this robot-shaped shelving unit for design brand Casamania in Milan next month. Update 31/07/11: see Dezeen’s top ten stories about robots. More »
London Design Festival 2010: Clemens Weisshaar & Reed Kram have installed eight robotic arms to scrawl messages from the public across the air in Trafalgar Square, and Dezeen readers can use a special VIP code to get their messages prioritised. Update 31/07/11: see Dezeen’s top ten stories about robots. More »
Michigan studios Rootoftwo and PLY Architecture have housed their conceptual models of future kitchen appliances in a paper teahouse at the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, Japan. Update 31/07/11: see Dezeen’s top ten stories about robots. More »
Designers Kram/Weisshaar are to install a robotic “octopus” in Trafalgar Square during the London Design Festival in September. More »
German designer Stefan Ulrich has designed a conceptual shape-changing object to relieve loneliness, using artificial muscle technology. More »
Boston architects Howeler + Yoon and Los Angeles digital designers Squared Design Lab have designed a conceptual structure for Boston, where an unfinished building would be covered in modular pods growing algae for biofuel. More »