Behavioural Production: Semi-Autonomous Design, Fabrication and Construction
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Stuart-Smith, Robert
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Abstract
This lecture presents a research vision for Behavioral Production, an emerging paradigm at the intersection of design, engineering, and autonomous systems. In response to housing insecurity, labor shortages, and the environmental impacts of conventional construction, the work reframes building production as a responsive, adaptive, and materially intelligent process grounded in semi-autonomous fabrication, multi-agent coordination strategies, robotic platforms and tools, and generative computational design. Drawing on aerial and ground-based collective robotic construction and multi-agent design strategies informed by deep learning, the lecture outlines pathways toward scalable and affordable building systems that address urgent societal needs.
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2026-02-11
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59:40 minutes
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