Intuitive Robotic Plastering
Human-Machine Collaboration • Switzerland
@Gramazio Kohler Research

This 11-week project explores the potential of novel digital fabrication processes to implement a full-scale construction project. The topic combines two PhD research projects on Robotic Plaster Spraying and Human-Machine Collaboration to propose new design and fabrication methodologies under the name of Intuitive Robotic Plastering.
The final results show the design and construction of an interior space through an adaptive thin layer printing process with an interactive design procedure.
**Key Research Areas:** - Amorphous material fabrication strategies - Interaction design - XR Communication - Hand gesture capturing and filtering strategies - Digital process chronology
**Tools Used:** - UR 10 robotic arm - HTC Vive - Projection mapping - Grasshopper - ROS - COMPAS framework - Siemens Dual axis - Anybotics ANYmal - Intel Realsense D435
**Robotic Fabrication Process**
As more global problematics, this project has been for us a constant interrogation on the position and role of human interaction on-site in a digital and automated production environment.
In that sense plaster represent for our group a material allowing us to experiment between a pragmatic approach of "how to apply plaster on a wall' and the very sensible question of " how to create a new digital materiality with a true sensible expression" taking in accounts precedents works and looking ahead to improve this research.

Realised project- Rulang, Zurich
Project Gallery

Robotic Plastering team with Anybot @anybotics

Workflow with looped feedback stages

Development workflow diagram

Hand gesture to Intention

Development process

Development process

Development process

XR and Intuition capturing setup

Data and fabrication process flow

Fabrication and localization setup

Real-time fabrication process

Onsite Spraying

Early samples

Final snapshots
Project Videos
Robotic plastering process demonstration