By tracing back the history of robots, Bob Sheil points out that the role of robot has been shifting from predominantly regarded as advanced manufacturing and construction tools to programmable design tools, and thus their flexible potential was becoming focused at designers. Control software and physical intervention in fabrication process expands the outdated working range for robot. Thus automation is combined with an architectural culture in which design and construction are intrinsically tied to one another, and by using the robot not only as a means for automation but as a design tool, the goal is to engineer not a perfect and widely applicable fabrication process but a unique one.
My gain from this is becoming aware of the flexibility that brought by various programing applications. It also raise a question by the extreme accuracy from robot is that: taking a look at the work of laying brick as an example, I consider the random inaccuracy as a recall of human creativity, which might arose the emotional effects. I wonder if there is a day for robot programming to become complex enough to simulate such random inaccuracy? If it is, will that be a mimic or an overcome for human creative activity?
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