Rob Stuart-smith

@robstuartsmith

Director of MSD-RAS @weitzman_msdras , Assist. Professor of Architecture University of Pennsylvania, Principal Research Associate UCL Computer Science
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Final review for my Penn elective seminar in Robotic Spatial 3D Printing today!! Congratulations to the students for the outstanding and challenging work this semester!! Special thanks to: TA, Shunta Moriuchi @m0rishun , ARI Robotics Lab Operators: Nicholas Sideropoulos @nsid_ , Shunta Moriuchi @m0rishun AML lab software development: Renhu Wu @franklin_wu98 , Guest jurors: Fleet Hower @locknesters , Masoud Akbarzadeh @masoudskbarzadeh , Mahsa Masalegoo @mahsamasalegoo , Nicholas Sideropoulos @nsid_ . #3dprinting #roboticfabrication #architecture
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Today’s final review for my Penn M.Arch seminar in Robotic Spatial Printing !! Congratulations to the students for the excellent and challenging work this semester!! Special thanks to TA Franklin Wu @franklin_wu98 , ARI Robotics Lab Operators: Nicholas Sideropoulos @nsid_ and Shunta Moriuchi @m0rishun , and guest reviewers Fleet Hower @locknesters , Andrew Saunders @andrewasaunders , Laia Mogas Soldevila @dumolab , Masoud Akbarzadeh @masoudskbarzadeh , Mahsa Masalegoo @mahsamasalegoo !!!
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My book “Behavioural Production” is finally out! I’m excited to share years of research and projects exploring my passion for generative design and robotic manufacturing. The book provides an in-depth survey of our semi-autonomous approaches to design, fabrication, and collective robotic construction, and the thought-provoking ideas they inspire! Currently under special offer! Use my profile’s URL link and code AFLY02 for a 20% discount. The book showcases over 50 projects and 200 full-color illustrations, including our pioneering aerial additive manufacturing research published in the journal Nature. In the context of the emerging Fourth Industrial Revolution and advancements in AI and robotic construction, I advocate for expanding creative agency within modes of production, computation, and robot control to create distinctive and situated work. The book explores design through the orchestration of spatiotemporal events, employing a behavior-based approach to architectural design that extends to individual and swarm-based robotic methods for additive manufacturing. In an industrialized world where traditional craftsmanship is marginalized and unable to scale to societal needs, this book speculates on bringing scalable forms of creativity into making, challenging architecture’s historical reliance on mass production. “Behavioural Production” argues for the authoring of semi-autonomous processes, enabling more open design engagement than automated approaches allow and potentially offering a more adaptive approach to our built environment. I hope this book fosters dialogue around how we can integrate emerging autonomous technologies thoughtfully without forsaking established practices or uncritically adopting processes beyond our control. A special thank you to the Penn’s @weitzman_arch , UCL-CS, @cemexgrd , RMIT, EPSRC, and all those who contributed to the research and projects. @robstuartsmith @aml.penn @weitzman_msdras @weitzman_school #weitzmanschool #weitzmanarch #generativedesign #roboticfabrication #3dprinting #robotics #ai #machinelearning #architecture #design
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Excited to participate this Saturday in the @acadiaorg ACADIA Board of Directors’ ACSA Special Session: AI Entanglements at @acsanationa ACSA’s 112th Annual Meeting in Vancouver. On behalf of Penn’s Weitzman School of Design’s Department of Architecture @weitzman_arch , I will be showcasing pioneering work in artificial intelligence from our Autonomous Manufacturing Research Lab and MSD-RAS program @weitzman_msdras alongside co-presenters @Leightonbeaman , @dcupk , @Materialpropositions , @robstuartsmith , @shelbyedoyle , @benjamin_ennemoser , @biaynabogosian . AI in Autonomous Systems explores architectural design and pedagogy through the leveraging of various degrees of autonomy in 3D modelling, robotic fabrication and collective robotic construction activities. AI in this work encompasses a broad range of computational methods including deep learning, deep reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems, genetic algorithms and more. More fundamentally, much of the work operates through custom applications of computer vision, allowing degrees of autonomous perception to inform site analysis, generative design, optimization, robotic fabrication and collective robotic construction activities. Several design approaches are presented from the Autonomous Manufacturing Research Lab and Penn’s post-professional master’s program – MSD-RAS. In this work, design operates vicariously through authored semi-autonomous systems in both physical and 3D graphics-based domains. @weitzman_msdras @weitzman_arch @weitzman_school #weitzmanschool #weitzmanarch #upenn #archdaily #instaarchitecture #archilovers #arc_only#next_top_architects #iarchitectures #fabrication #roboticfabrication #3dprinting #robotics #ai #machinelearning #fabrication #construction #building #design #architects_need #architecture_hunter #archisource #thearchitecturestudentblog #architectureschool #architecturefactor #studyarchitecture #architecture #studiowork #design
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Our Aerial Additive Manufactured Architecture exhibit is now open!! Level 2, Palazzo Bembo, Venice Architecture Biennale. #robstuartsmith #weitzman_arch #weitzmanschool #venicearchitecturebiennale #3dprintingarchitecture #3dprinting #robotics
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Evening stroll…
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Happy first year as 3!!! Bring on 2023!!
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ACADIA 2022 is just weeks away at Penn! Excited to be moderating the first evening's keynote prologue panel discussion on the conference theme, "Hybrids & Haecceities." Our panelists are Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen (Royal Danish Academy / UPenn Weitzman, @citacph ), Rashida Ng (UPenn Weitzman, @rngdesign ), Marcos Cruz (Bartlett UCL, @marcoscruzbioid ), and Winka Dubbledam (UPenn Weitzman, @winkadub ), moderated by Conference Chair Robert Stuart-Smith (UPenn Weitzman, @weitzman_msdras ). To see the full schedule and register for the conference, please visit /schedule22/ #acadia2022 #acadiaconf #hybridsandhaecceities #keynotepanel #weitzmanschoolofdesign @weitzman_arch
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Reminiscing about our amazing wedding 4 weeks ago!! So grateful for the beautiful moments and unforgettable memories!! xx Rob&Stella
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Incredibly proud and happy that our pioneering research on Aerial Additive Manufacturing has finally been published in Nature! A dream come true, it was a long process both to develop in-flight 3d printing, and to realize this paper in the world’s most scientifically competitive journal! Congratulations to all involved in this momentous effort, especially collaborators Mirko Kovac @mirko.kovac.robotics , Stefan Leutenegger, Vijay Pawar, Richard Ball, Chris Williams and Paul Shephard, and our research teams at Imperial College, University College London, University of Bath, University of Pennsylvania, Queen Mary University, and University of Munich. @robstuartsmith @uclrobotics , @mirko.kovac.robotics @MKovacRobotics @weitzman_arch @weitzman_school @weitzman_msdras #weitzmanschool #weitzmanarch #upenn #archdaily #instaarchitecture #archilovers #archisource #penndesign #fabrication #roboticfabrication #3dprinting #technology
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A snippet from last week's @CAADRIA paper that explored a means to relate design aesthetics to an ethics of material volume, correlating aesthetics to a design's environmental and economical impact. Visual Character Analysis within Algorithmic Design: Quantifying Aesthetics Relative to Structural and Geometric Design Criteria Authors: Robert Stuart-Smith @robstuartsmith & Patrick Danahy @pdanahy @weitzman_arch @weitzman_school @weitzman_msdras @caadria #weitzmanschool #weitzmanarch #robstuartsmith_studio #upenn #archdaily #instaarchitecture #archilovers #arc_only#next_top_architects #iarchitectures #soarch #critday #thebna #architects_need #imadethat #architecture_hunter#archisource #thearchitecturestudentblog #architectureschool #architecturefactor #studyarchitecture #architecture #archdrawing #studiowork #design #penndesign
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Yesterday’s Machinic In-Sites, Penn 701 Studio Stuart-Smith Final Review Congratulations to our Penn 701 students for both exceptional projects and being exceptional people! Thank you also to our star jury who contributed to a super engaging discussion! Kristy Balliet (Sci-Arc, BairBalliet) @conescubes Marc Fornes (TheVeryMany) @theverymany Casey Rehm (Sci-Arc) @mcaseyrehm Winka Dubbeldam (Penn) @winkadub Patrick Danahy (Penn/Ball State) @pdanahy Masoud Akbarzadeh (Penn) @masoudakbarzadeh Dorit Aviv (Penn) @thermal_architecture_lab Andrew Saunders (Penn) @andrewsaunders Daniel Markiewicz (Penn, Forma) @daniel_markiewicz Shawn Lutz (Texas A+M) @smla_co Machinic In-Sites, Penn 701 Studio Stuart-Smith Instructor: Robert Stuart-Smith @robstuartsmith TA: David Forero @david__forero Students: Yaofang Hu Michael Benjamin Hergert @benjammin_27 Umar Mahmood @umar_mah Hadi El Kebbi @habielkeddi Maria Sofia Garcia @arch.msg Liam Lasting @lasting.architecture Anna Lim @annalim.jpg @do.arch Danny Ortega @uwu_arc @do.arch Yulun Liu @yulun.liu Dongqi Chen @weitzman_arch , @weitzman_school #PennMArch #PennMArchWIP #robstuartsmith_studio #archdaily #architectureschool #architecturefactor #studyarchitecture #machinelearning #computervision #archisource #generativedesign #computational design
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