Robots will be used to construct BIG and Heatherwick's Google HQ
Google's new California headquarters by Bjarke Ingels and Thomas Heatherwick is set to be built using robot-crane hybrids. More
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Competition: 40 fast-track codes for Kram/Weisshaar's Robochop to be won
Competition: Dezeen is giving 40 readers a code to fast-track designs created for Kram/Weisshaar's Robochop installation, which allows users to remotely control a robotic arm that shapes cubes of foam into furniture (+ movie). More
Drones can "weave structures in space in just a few minutes"
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in the second part of our video interview with Ammar Mirjan, the architect explains how drones with cable dispensers attached can be used to quickly build lightweight architectural structures. More
Drones can "collaborate to build architectural structures"
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: architect and researcher Ammar Mirjan explains how drones could be programmed to construct buildings in the first of two movies about the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in architecture. More
Robotic arms create custom furniture in Kram/Weisshaar's Robochop installation
This interactive installation by design studio Kram/Weisshaar allows users to remotely control a robotic arm that sculpts foam cubes into furniture pieces (+ movie). More
Pangenerator creates troop of robotic backing singers and dancers
Speakers that form an "eight-channel robotic choir" bob up and down in response to a singer's voice in a setup by Polish studio Pangenerator (+ movie). More
Studio Diip's goldfish-driven vehicle is designed for "enhanced pet mobility"
Dutch design collective Studio Diip has added wheels and sensors to a fish tank so that its inhabitant can drive it by swimming in a certain direction (+ movie). More
Robotic vacuum cleaners perform a Viennese Waltz at Biennale Interieur 2014
Interieur 2014: a troop of robotic vacuum cleaners "waltz" with each other around a school gymnasium in this installation for the Biennale Interieur event in Kortrijk, Belgium (+ movie). More
Ted Lawson uses his own blood to print a self-portrait with a CNC machine
Brooklyn artist Ted Lawson hooked himself up to a robotic painting machine that used his blood as ink to draw a nude portrait of himself (+ movie). More
University of Stuttgart unveils carbon-fibre pavilion based on beetle shells
A robotically woven carbon-fibre pavilion based on the lightweight shell encasing the wings and abdomen of a beetle is the second structure revealed this week from the team of architects and engineers at the University of Stuttgart (+ movie). More
Landesgartenschau Exhibition Hall is a plywood pavilion made by robots
News: a double-domed pavilion is the first building to have its main structure entirely made out of wooden panels created by robots, according to academics from the University of Stuttgart (+ slideshow). More
NASA's latest robot is designed to bounce and roll across rough terrain
News: NASA is developing robots made from a tensile system of interlocking rods and cables that can transform from flat components into a ball shape then tense and flex to roll around the surface of planets. More
3D-printing robot by Joris Laarman draws freeform metal lines
News: Dutch designer Joris Laarman has developed a 3D-printing technique that allows a robot to draw metal structures in mid-air. More
Robotic bricklayers developed to work like termites
News: a team of researchers from Harvard University has developed a team of robots that can build architectural structures based on the behaviour of termites. More
Renault unveils Kwid Concept car equipped with traffic-spotting drone
French auto brand Renault has designed a concept car that launches its own drone from a hatch in the roof (+ slideshow). More
Gijs van Bon's Skryf machine "writes poems on the ground with sand"
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in this movie filmed at Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, artist Gijs van Bon shows us his machine called Skryf, which prints a trail of sand behind it to form letters on the ground. More
Amazon tests drones that could deliver packages "in less than 30 minutes"
News: online retail giant Amazon has presented a prototype for a service that uses flying robots to deliver packages to customers within half an hour of ordering (+ movie). More
Robot surgeons to operate on beating human hearts
News: robots could soon be operating on beating human hearts while a surgeon based in a different part of the world directs the procedure remotely, according to a designer working on a new generation of medical equipment. More
Strap-on robotic Titan Arm wins £30,000 Dyson award
News: a strap-on robotic arm that allows humans to lift heavy weights has won this year's James Dyson Award for the most innovative student design product. More
"World's first" drone delivery service launches in Australia
News: a Sydney company has launched a book delivery service that employs flying robots instead of postmen, and declared that "commercial drones are going to become as ubiquitous as aeroplanes" (+ movie). More