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
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"Robotic construction and 3D printing are the future" says Wolf D Prix
Combining robotic fabrication with 3D printing offers "amazing" opportunities for architecture and could help solve the global refugee crisis, according to Coop Himmelb(l)au founder Wolf D Prix (+ interview + movie). More
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Joris Laarman's canal bridge in Amsterdam could take 3D printing "to a higher level"
The world's first 3D-printed bridge in Amsterdam uses a technique that designer Joris Laarman says could soon be used to build "infinitely large structures" (+ interview). More
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Robot uses stacked spiky particles to build groundbreaking ICD Aggregate Pavilion 2015
Researchers and students from the University of Stuttgart used 30,000 spiky components and a robot to create a pavilion described as the "first architectural structure realised with a designed granular system" (+ movie). More
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Robot demonstrates pioneering technology by building structure from rocks and string
Chicago Architectural Biennial 2015: a team of designers from Swiss and American universities have created a towering architectural structure made from nothing but gravel and thread – which was built by a robotic arm (+ slideshow). More
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Joris Laarman designs steel canal bridge that will be 3D printed by robots
Dutch designer Joris Laarman has designed a pedestrian bridge for Amsterdam that will be 3D printed by robots (+ slideshow). More
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Robots will be used to construct BIG and Heatherwick's Google HQ
Google's new California headquarters by Bjarke Ingels and Thomas Heatherwick is set to be built using robot-crane hybrids. More
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Drones can "weave structures in space in just a few minutes"
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in the second part of our video interview with Ammar Mirjan, the architect explains how drones with cable dispensers attached can be used to quickly build lightweight architectural structures. More
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Drones can "collaborate to build architectural structures"
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: architect and researcher Ammar Mirjan explains how drones could be programmed to construct buildings in the first of two movies about the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in architecture. More
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Sydney garden pavilion by AR-MA built from thousands of components
Robotically-produced Corian panels were joined to laser-cut mirrors to create the curves of this pavilion in the garden of Sydney's Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, designed by Australian studio AR-MA (+ slideshow). More
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University of Stuttgart unveils carbon-fibre pavilion based on beetle shells
A robotically woven carbon-fibre pavilion based on the lightweight shell encasing the wings and abdomen of a beetle is the second structure revealed this week from the team of architects and engineers at the University of Stuttgart (+ movie). More
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Landesgartenschau Exhibition Hall is a plywood pavilion made by robots
News: a double-domed pavilion is the first building to have its main structure entirely made out of wooden panels created by robots, according to academics from the University of Stuttgart (+ slideshow). More
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Robotic bricklayers developed to work like termites
News: a team of researchers from Harvard University has developed a team of robots that can build architectural structures based on the behaviour of termites. More
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Research Pavilion by ICD and ITKE
Researchers at the University of Stuttgart programmed a robot to wind 60 kilometres of carbon and glass fibre filaments into this pavilion inspired by a lobster's exoskeleton (+ movie + slideshow). More
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Stone Spray Robot by Anna Kulik, Inder Shergill and Petr Novikov
Students from Barcelona's Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia have built a robotic 3D printer that creates architectural structures from sand or soil (+ movie). More
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Flight Assembled Architecture by Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello d’Andrea
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. More
