Though robots have been common in industrial manufacturing and assembly, the realization that they might also be useful in architecture is more recent. The main characteristic that sets robot arms apart from other machines for digital fabrication is the fact thatit in facts has no specific set function. It is a machine built to move freely in space, capable of lifting and pushing weight but it depends on the user to define its function. A laser-cutter or a CNC-mill in contrast have set functions; cutting using concentrated light and milling, respectively.
Other advantages of robotic fabrication include speed, precision and efficiency. The capability of repeating a task thousands of times always with the same accuracy or even a thousand different tasks always with precision. This means that they fit right in in the industrial sector and within capitalistic logics. There is however, potential for robotics to be subverted within
design and architecture too. To collaborate with human, to play and perform, to discuss themes of laziness and failure and for artistic expression.
In the following assignment, we ask you to imagine what robotics can realize in terms of making, playing and performing followed by the development of a custom-tool for the task.
The final outcome should be a physical prototype of a tool to be attached to a robot, photographic documentation and visualizations of its use.
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