Imagine a future where humans and machines coexist. Where intelligent robots are involved in everyday aspects of our daily live, assisting and supporting us with their strength and endurance.
This collaborative course built upon the premise that human-robot collaboration (HRC) and mobile fabrication/assembly technologies will fundamentally change how we design, manufacture and build. The task of this course was to design sets of discrete elements, which together with a KUKA iiwa cobot were assembled into different spatial configurations, objects or structures. Wether those reconfigurable systems had different purposes and functions or whether they were largely ornamental was to be decided by the interdisciplinary teams of students. The main question to ask was how to actively engage with the machine in a process of co-creation.
