A process whereby robot arms are programmed to deform sheet metal. This can either by a single robot arm working to deform metal sheet into pre-prepared forms, produced, for example, by computer numerically controlled milling, or alternatively by two robot arms working in conjunction, deforming the material between the two heads in free space.
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Building Relationships: Changing Technology and Society
Jennifer Loy (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) and Tim Schork (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Copyright: © 2019
|Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-6995-4.ch008
Abstract
This chapter describes how digital immersion, changing social values, and environmental and economic pressures have the potential to create a paradigm shift in relationships between people and their built environment with the growing sustainability imperative. It responds to emerging opportunities provided by digital technologies for the construction, maintenance, and heritage curation of the life of buildings, and draws on aligned changes in thinking apparent in manufacturing, healthcare, business, and education in the 21st century. The ideas that shape this chapter are relevant to architects and educators, but also to scholars and practitioners across disciplines because they provide an innovative approach in responding to the types of changes currently impacting societies worldwide.