Kuka – ROBOT RABBI

Robotic Bridge Builders

June 19, 2015 by Oliver Mitchell

Amsterdam is a city of bridges, 1,500 in fact, and ripe for disruption. As a follow up to my story last May about robots in architecture, I am pleased to introduce the new bridge building machine, the MX3D. Dutch designer Joris Laarman has designed a pedestrian bridge for Amsterdam that will be 3D printed by robots. The … Read more

Boeing's New Workforce

October 23, 2014July 24, 2014 by Oliver Mitchell

Last summer my family and I took a trek up north, on the way to Vancouver, to visit the Boeing plant in Everett, Washington. We were carefully chaperoned through the plant with all photography equipment banned. The shear mass of these planes is impressive, along with the thousands of workers hunched over riveting the same … Read more