Gallery: Out of the Factory, Into the Field: Robots Go to Work for Architects
01tablet
*A student at the Vienna University of Technology uses an iPad to control a robot arm.* Photo: TU Vienna
02column
*Using a mixture of heating and grabbing, a robot arm forms a column out of plastic tubes.* Photo: SciArc
03forming-clay
*With their modular attachments, robots can work with just about any substance. This one is forming clay.* Photo: Harvard GSD
04milling-concrete
*Decades after modernists fell in love with its plastic properties, concrete is still one of the most common building materials.*Photo: TU Graz
05geometric-death
*Robots are interesting not only for the architecture they can produce, but also for the performance of that architecture, as seen in this promo spot for Federico Diaz's* Geometric Death Frequency-141. *That said, [the final product has to be seen to be believed](http://www.massmoca.org/event_details.php?id=549).* Video: Federico Diaz
06pikes
*In another example of the performance of architecture, ETH Zurich set up a robot arm to lay bricks on a traffic island in the middle of a New York street.* Video: [Storefront for Art and Architecture](http://www.storefrontnews.org/archive/2000?y=0&m=0&p=0&c=1&e=314)
07steel
*This is a much more standard use of industrial robots in architecture: fabricating steel beams.* Photo: Zeman
08foam
*Students use a robot equipped with a hot wire cutter to shape foam.*Photo: TU Delft/University of Michigan
09redbull
*The molds for this Red Bull promo piece were created by robots milling out forms under the direction of artists new to the interface.* Photo: Red Bull
10kids
*Just some kids and a robot, hanging out and playing with blocks.* Photo: Courtesy of Rob|Arch
