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The Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering welcomes applications for a postdoctoral researcher position within a milestone research project "Twin Re-Fab: Digital Twins for Circular Architectural Renovation, Digital Fabrication and Robotic Construction", carried out within the Digital Twin Cities Centre (DTCC), hosted by Chalmers University of Technology and co-funded by Sweden's Innovation Agency Vinnova. The postdoctoral researcher will contribute to the research agenda of the "Twin Re-Fab" project, aimed to deliver a comprehensive solution employing six disruptive digital technologies - digital twins, 3D scanning, computational design, robotic 3D printing, machine vision and machine learning - to facilitate more circular architectural renovation and reuse of existing building components and materials.

Postdoc in robot vision for architectural 3D printing applications

Are you interested in innovative research in the field of robot-assisted clay construction and are motivated to supervise students of architecture in structural design in exercises, seminars and drafts? Then we are looking for you as a research assistant at the Institute of Structural Design (ITE) of the
Technische Universität Braunschweig in the team of Harald Kloft and Norman Hack.

Ideally, you have professional experience as a civil engineer in the field of structural design or other areas of structural engineering.

Link here

YOUR TASKS
Develop parametric 3D models and manufacturing strategies for 3D printing concrete elements in Grasshopper-based prototyping.
Integrate your models into our fully digital process and test them on our Concrete Aeditor.
Provide feedback and deliver innovation for the advancement of Robotic Shotcrete Printing (RSP).
Help users of our technology develop new component designs, opening new use cases for 3D printing.
Be part of mutual sparring in a multi-disciplinary team, as well as knowledge sharing and coaching.

YOUR PROFILE
You have studied architecture or construction engineering and specialized in the direction of digital fabrication
You are not afraid to work with the most innovative producers in the precast concrete industry and develop manufacturing solutions with them.
You're totally curious about how design and fabrication in the construction industry will evolve in the future through digitized technologies
Your Grasshopper and Rhino skills are outstanding, and you have a desire to develop your programming skills on an unprecedented technology.
You speak and write English fluently and are proficient in C# or another modern programming language (e.g., Rust or Python).
Experience in programming robots would be ideal!

https://aeditive.jobs.personio.de/job/412186?display=de

Full-time position in computational design + robotic fabrication in Gradel - Luxembourg
"Gradel lightweight is developing composite light-weight solutions for industry-leading aerospace, automotive, and end-user companies as well as research institutes and universities.
We are expanding the team with our upcoming production hall in Luxembourg, located next to a joint research lab for composites in space at the Luxembourg Institute for Science and Technology. The successful candidate will work between computational design and robotic fabrication as part of a team of structural and mechanical engineers, designers, roboticists, material scientists, and production engineers and assistants - the job environment is very collaborative and theres room for intervention, creativity, responsibility and development.
With a young international team, the work is conducted in English. Other languages are a bonus.
The position starting date is flexible (for current students interested to start upon graduation."
environment entails both research and production. Theres already a couple of computational designers from itech Stuttgart and MAS ETH on the team. The selection process can be lengthy so I advise anyone interested in starting later to send in their application already.
CV, cover letter, and portfolio are to be sent to job@gradel.lu
If anyone has questions or doubts or needs more info they can get in touch with me directly
more info about the company: https://gradellw.eu/

In this latest video I give you my top six tips for getting up and running with KUKA prc - including a sneak peak at upcoming features..

Check it out here: https://youtu.be/nphRj5J8wCs

I finally locked Johannes down for a conversation about the Association for Robots in Architecture, KUKA | prc and our work at Creative Robotics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhDRbbTaPO8

Now if I could only get him to finally fix the icon of the AXIS movement component in prc..

Details here

https://big.emply.net/recruitment/vacancyAd.aspx?publishingId=84ab8af6-98dc-4da2-9c66-55dc8a3751f4

In this tutorial I teach you how to program your KUKA robotic arm to do 3D printing and extrusion for additive manufacturing and rapid prototyping. Detailing how to use Rhino3d, Grasshopper and KUKA|prc to generate parametric tool paths to print or extrude any shape with a KUKA robot.

https://youtu.be/AlXiKd1U5es

While setting up a script that is using multiple digital outputs and I need to switch between two within 2 lines of KRL, the output src swaps the order of the $OUT variables. Doesn't happen if there's a line of KRL in between them, is there a purpose for this or a workaround?

Latest tutorial is live now: how to change the user privileges and methods on a KUKA teaching pendant..

How to change user privileges on a KUKA KRC4 Tutorial

Hey Guys!

I was fortunate enough to have the chance to visit Johannes at his Creative Robotics lab late last year and filmed a couple tutorial videos and have finally found the time to record and upload the first one - an introduction to setting up 5 axis milling with KUKA prc. You can find it here:

https://youtu.be/BvgKW-CPLTg

Hope some of you find it helpful!

Hi Guys,

I'm currently working with RhinoCAM and a KR150 - the latest version has Fusion NC import, but its not working as it would with the older 5-axis NC import. Anyone have any experience with this?

In this tutorial we look at setting up multiple KUKAs as inspired by 'Rotanza' at SXSW this year:

https://youtu.be/nDP3_86EMcg

Hey guys,

I'm working on an inverted agilus KR10 900 for the first time that is ceiling mounted on a railing. When I enter the base data into KUKA|PRC the robot is right way up and I'm basically working upside within Rhino & grasshopper, making it near impossible - any tips on how to better calibrate base and/or sync the simulation so that everything is as though it appears in real world?

Attached a photo of the KUKA

Is there any practical way to animate the simulation? Say for example you're doing an extrusion and want to see the material with the DIG IO places to make sure its turning on and off in the right places?

My latest video tutorial is now live!

Video Tutorial here: https://youtu.be/2ZTyospKniQ

Hi Guys,

My latest video tutorial is now live - featuring Beethoven!

How to setup a turntable:
Part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gF4Lkhtumc

Part 2:
https://youtu.be/LImgOPV1tgk

Hi Guys,

Continuing from part one we setup multiple bricks to pick and place in Grasshopper with KUKA PRC:

Tutorial here: https://youtu.be/cC3WjUK8r1Y

In this robotics tutorial I go through the basics of setting up a simple pick and place command script for a KUKA robot.

Tutorial here: http://bit.ly/KUKA_PickPlace

In this robotics tutorial I go through the basics of setting up a custom tool for use on a KUKA using Grasshopper and the robot itself.

Tutorial here:
https://youtu.be/xh9XRliv3ys