Digital fabrication, in particular additive manufacturing techniques, have been a major enabler for designers and architects to realize digitally designed, full-scale architectural structures.  However, since the construction industry has yet to accept the resolution of such technologies, these structures need extra post processing operations to make them market ready. As an added downside these operations are tedious and can be better suited to for machines.

Robotic Finishing Touch focuses on additively manufacturing of full scale earth based wall structures using an industrial robot and later explore efficient rendering methods with a goal of achieving high-quality surface finishes on the fabricated structures using a collaborative robotic setup.

Photo Credits: Kunaljit Chadha

Learning Objectives

During the workshop, the students will be exposed to a task specific software and hardware toolkit which should help them explore ;

• Computational strategies to design valid additive manufacturing structures
• Robot path planning for large scale additive manufacturing with sustainable custom earth based material
• Incorporating task relevant information from sensor feedback
• Exploring Robotic Earth Finishing Processes
• Programming collaborative robot using online control