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News • News • 12 Nov 2020
Foster + Partners uses the Boston Dynamics Spot® robot as an innovative tool to capture and monitor progression on-site
As part of Boston Dynamics’ Early Adopter Program Foster + Partners’ Applied Research + Development group collaborates with Boston Dynamics to explore the potential of the Spot® robot to easily compare the ‘as-designed’ models against the ‘as-built’ reality.
Construction sites are hectic and complex environments. With several contractors working at tandem on-site, there is a need for a quick and consistent monitoring of deviations from the design. Early detection of on-site anomalies can vastly improve the project timeline and budget.
Courtesy of Foster + Partners
“The ability of Spot to repeatedly and effortlessly complete routine scans, in an ever-changing environmen... More
Product • By Atelier Robotiq • Out Of Order
Out Of Order
Robots are replacing humans to do our repetitive tasks. Reliable and obedient, robots can perform their tasks meticulously over and over again. But what happens once this flawless worker starts to slack off? What if it loses interest in its daily routine, or simply drifts away into a daydream?
These thoughts became the inspiration behind Out of Order – an innovative LED light fixture that visualizes the transition from a repetitive robotic order to a disordered structure created out of free will.
The ultra lightweight cylindrical construction consists solely of wound industrial yarn, reinforced with resin, that resembles a three-dimensional play of lines suspended in space.
At first glance the weave appears to be perfectly ordered,... More
Mathematics: The Winton Gallery Science Museum
On 8 December 2016 the Science Museum will open an inspirational new mathematics gallery, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects.
Mathematics: The Winton Gallery brings together remarkable stories, historical artefacts and design to highlight the central role of mathematical practice in all our lives, and explores how mathematicians, their tools and ideas have helped build the modern world over the past four centuries.
More than 100 treasures from the Science Museum’s world-class science, technology, engineering and mathematics collections have been selected to tell powerful stories about how mathematics has shaped, and been shaped by, some of our most fundamental human concerns – from trade and travel to war, peace, life, death, form and be... More