Remote Collaboration for
Adaptive Design and Fabrication

Design, Tool path generation and robot execution are all done in a real-time feedback loop. If an appropriate tool path is not found or it is not executable, the branch must be re-designed.

Two robot arms building the same structure in two different locations, one in Japan and one in Germany. While the final structure is the same, the robot actions and movements must be adapted to the local environment.

This Collaboration Project between The University of Tokyo and Brandenburg University of Technology explores real-time adaptive fabrication. In this project, we explore collaboration methods that involve multiple designers. Not only digital data, we also explore how this collaboration can include robots and the physical world. We developed ways to incorporate robotic and design constraints from two locations so that we can have a common phygital space for collaboration.