Fiberbots: Design of a multi-agent, fiber composite digital fabrication system

FIBERBOTS is a digital fabrication platform fusing cooperative robotic manufacturing with abilities to generate highly sophisticated material architectures. The platform can enable design and digital fabrication of large-scale structures with high spatial resolution leveraging mobile fabrication nodes, or robotic “agents” designed to tune the material make-up of the structure being constructed on the fly as informed by their environment. Nature’s builders leverage hierarchical structures in order to control and optimize multiple material properties.

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