The Innovation Design Studio – Designing Robotic Environments course at Georgia Institute of Technology enables students to reimagine living and working environments with robotic components.

Innovation Design Studio – Designing Robotic Environments explores the design of our everyday environments as robots for living in, working in, learning in, traveling in and playing in.

Georgia Tech's School of Industrial Design program encourages students' boldness and creativity in exploring the design research topic at the very frontier of academia. This course is a senior interaction design studio with a focus on designing 'Robotic Environments,' which is an interdisciplinary topic discussed in various academic communities including Interactive Architecture (IA), Architectural Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) and Human-Building Interaction (HBI).

'Robotic Environments' are built environments embedded with robotic components. They are physical, reconfigurable, interactive and can be augmented through extended or mixed realities.

This course has been internationally recognised through the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).

All previous student works (project videos and papers) from this class were accepted for presentation at the conference and published in the ACM digital library. One student project won the 'Exceptional Student Design Challenge Paper' award at the conference.

School: School of Industrial Design, Georgia Institute of Technology
Course: Innovation Design Studio – Designing Robotic Environments
Type: Undergraduate
Location: Atlanta, USA
Course dates: August 2026 to December 2026
Application deadline: 15 January 2026

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What will I learn during this course?

– Creating digital and cyber-physical interaction prototypes to speculate and simulate contextualised interactions between users and novel robotic environments
– Synthesising the design research process to generate a thorough and convincing design research report and videos of publishable quality
– Designing and evaluating novel robotic environments for different contexts

What are the requirements?

– Being a junior (or undergraduate) in an Industrial Design undergraduate programme

What facilities and resources are available?

– The School of Industrial Design has a complete range of facilities that include 3D printing, scanning, metal forming, sewing, electronic assembly and testing

What career prospects can I expect upon graduating?

Within the industry, graduates can expect careers as interaction designers and researchers, UX designers and researchers, product designers and robot designers.

Within academia, graduates can apply for HCI/HRI Master and PhD programmes, Human Centred Design (HCD) Master and PhD programmes, and Information Science Master and PhD programmes.

Who teaches this course?

– Dr Yixiao Wang, assistant professor

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