Designing [with] Machines

Abstract

Robotically fabricated filamentwound object produced by a team of task-and site-specific robots. The robotic system was developed according to the Designing [with] Machines methodology, following the design criteria defined by the site.

Discrete Quasicrystal Assembly

“…This linear approach begins to shift when the fabrication equipment becomes more specialized through augmentation of existing machines (Felbrich et al 2017;Keating et al 2017) or development of entirely new task-specific ones from scratch (Peek 2016;Wood et al 2019). Taskspecificity of robotic hardware affords a revisiting of the conventional one-way machine-to-material relationship, and consideration of both as interdependent parts of one machine-material system resulting from one integrated design process (Yablonina et al 2021). Presented research contributes to the discourse of machine-material systems by proposing a bespoke digital material and a matching task-specific robotic assembly system (Figure 2).…”