ETH Zurich unveils plans for robot-built house in Dübendorf
Researchers from Switzerland's ETH Zurich university will use robots and 3D printers to design and build a pioneering three-storey house at a local research and innovation campus. More
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Jenny Sabin stretches robotically woven canopy across MoMA PS1 courtyard
New York-based Jenny Sabin Studio has made a canopy of robotically knitted textile at MoMA PS1 in Queens that sprays mist in the day and glows at night. More
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Robot-made Voxel chair designed using new software by Bartlett researchers
A continuous line of plastic makes up this intricate robot-built chair, designed using a new 3D-printing software by a team from the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. More
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Drones and robots weave carbon-fibre pavilion based on moth webs
Researchers and students from the University of Stuttgart have used robots and drones to weave this carbon-fibre pavilion, which is based on the silk hammocks spun by moth larvae. More
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Bartlett students propose self-supporting pavilion made from felt
A group of MAarch students from the Bartlett School of Architecture have devised a method of turning felt into load-bearing structures that they hope to build into an fabric pavilion. More
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Luxury penthouse to be installed in Herzog & de Meuron's Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
A penthouse apartment is being built inside Herzog & de Meuron's recently completed philharmonic hall in Hamburg, at a cost of £6.9 million for an anonymous client. More
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ETH Zurich students create robot-built pavilion with a skin of wooden shingles
This shingled timber pavilion was created by masters students on ETH Zurich's Digital Fabrication course, after developing robotic fabrication techniques to minimise the waste involved in its construction. More
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Bricklaying robots create bulging brick facade for Shanghai arts centre
Chinese studio Archi-Union Architects programmed robots to construct the undulating brick facade of this art gallery in Shanghai's West Bund district. More
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Wall-climbing mini robots build "entirely new structures" from carbon fibre
Graduate shows 2016: University of Stuttgart graduate Maria Yablonina has devised a new method of construction using mini robots that is cheap, fast and can create structures that would otherwise be impossible to build (+ movie). More
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Fabric-cast concrete is the construction method of the future, say designers
Designers Ron Culver and Joseph Sarafian have developed a method of casting concrete in Lycra stretched by robotic arms, which they believe could be used to create radical new architectural forms (+ movie). More
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Robotically fabricated carbon-fibre pavilion opens at the V&A
A robotically woven carbon-fibre pavilion developed by a team from the University of Stuttgart has been erected in the courtyard of London's V&A museum as part of a season of engineering events (+ slideshow). More
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London's AA School taps into robotic construction trend by launching specialist course
London's Architectural Association has released a film showing its first major foray into robotic construction, and has revealed it will this year launch a new course focussed on digital fabrication (+ movie). More
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10 projects paving the way to a future of robot-built architecture
Robots are the future of the construction industry, according to architects including Wolf D Prix and BIG's Kai-Uwe Bergmann. We've rounded up a selection of projects that suggest what the robot-made buildings of the future might look like (+ slideshow). More
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Carbon fibre and robots could create a "fourth industrial revolution" says expert
Carbon fibre is architecture's biggest untapped resource according to architect and researcher Achim Menges, who claims that robots could be programmed to build stadium roofs using the fibrous building material. More
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Robotically fabricated pavilion by University of Stuttgart students is based on sea-urchin shells
Researchers and students from the University of Stuttgart employed robots to mould and stitch together this laminated plywood pavilion, which is based on the anatomy of a sea urchin (+ movie). More
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AA Design & Make students use a robotic arm to build a woodland barn
Students from London's Architectural Association have completed a robotically fabricated barn in a wood in Dorset, England, using timber harvested from the surrounding trees. More
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Robot-built pavilion proposed by Achim Menges for V&A museum courtyard
Stuttgart architect Achim Menges has developed designs for a robot-fabricated pavilion based on the wings of flying beetles, which will be erected in the V&A museum courtyard in London. More
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Producing the world's first 3D-printed bridge with robots "is just the beginning"
Future Makers: the technology that startup MX3D is developing to 3D print a bridge in Amsterdam could be used to produce "endless" different structures, says Dutch designer Joris Laarman in this exclusive movie. More
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Studio RAP completes "first robotically fabricated building in the Netherlands"
A team of architects and designers have used a huge robot to construct a 130-square-metre building inside a former industrial machine hall in Rotterdam (+ movie). More
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Robots will transform the building industry in 50 years says BIG's Kai-Uwe Bergmann
World Architecture Festival 2015: the architecture industry is at the start of a "maker revolution" that could see robots transform construction, according to BIG partner Kai-Uwe Bergmann. More