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As the connection between data and building materials grows ever closer, with digital information not just informing plans but actually being used to create the material that will construct a building?robots are necessarily playing a large role in architecture. Yet the use of robots in architecture has not been treated comprehensively until now. The Robotic Touch features thirty research projects on robots in architecture originating at ETH Zurich, documenting various methods and concepts relating to the use of robots in architecture. In particular, The Robotic Touch offers the first full analysis of the material and constructive aspects of robot-based building projects?and draws out the implications for architectural design on the growing use of robots. The volume is rounded out by six topical essays on broader aspects of the subject, along with technical data-sheets and a helpful glossary.

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At the beginning of the twenty-first century, advancing technology offers another occasion for productive confusion in the design professions. . . . Gramazio and Kohler's The Robotic Touch is a substantial and provocative document of this moment of productive confusion, . . .both a valuable document of past research and a text that projects itself into a seemingly ineluctable future. -- (08/17/2015)

"""At the beginning of the twenty-first century, advancing technology offers another occasion for productive confusion in the design professions. . . . Gramazio and Kohler's The Robotic Touch is a substantial and provocative document of this moment of productive confusion, . . .both a valuable document of past research and a text that projects itself into a seemingly ineluctable future.""-- ""CAA Reviews"" (8/17/2015 12:00:00 AM)"

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Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler are both architects and professors for architecture and digital fabrication at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). Jan Willmann is an architect and senior assistant at the Chair for Architecture and Digital Fabrication at ETH Zurich since 2011.

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