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Architectural Robotics

Ecosystems of Bits, Bytes, and Biology
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How a built environment that is robotic and interactive becomes an apt home to our restless, dynamic, and increasingly digital society.The relationship of humans to computers can no longer be represented as one person in a chair and one computer on a desk. Today computing finds its way into our pockets, our cars, our appliances; it is ubiquitous-an inescapable part of our everyday lives. Computing is even expanding beyond our devices; sensors, microcontrollers, and actuators are increasingly embedded into the built environment. In Architectural Robotics, Keith Evan Green looks toward the next frontier in computing- interactive, partly intelligent, meticulously designed physical environments. Green examines how these "architectural robotic" systems will support and augment us at work, school, and home, as we roam, interconnect, and age. Green tells the stories of three projects from his research lab that exemplify the reconfigurable, distributed, and transfigurable environments of architectural robotics. The Animated Work Environment is a robotic work environment of shape-shifting physical space that responds dynamically to the working life of the people within it; home+ is a suite of networked, distributed "robotic furnishings" integrated into existing domestic and healthcare environments; and LIT ROOM offers a simulated environment in which the physical space of a room merges with the imaginary space of a book, becoming "a portal to elsewhere." How far beyond workstations, furniture, and rooms can the environments of architectural robotics stretch? Green imagines scaled-up neighborhoods, villages, and metropolises composed of physical bits, digital bytes, living things, and their hybrids. Not global but local, architectural robotics grounds computing in a capacious cyber-physical home.

Author Biography:

Keith Evan Green is Professor of Design + Environmental Analysis and Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University.
Release date Australia
February 12th, 2016
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Country of Publication
United States
Illustrations
70 b&w illus.
Imprint
MIT Press
Interest Age
From 18 years
Pages
288
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
Dimensions
152x229x19
ISBN-13
9780262033954
Product ID
24148350

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