POLYHEDRON CLAY ROBOTICS PRINTING

Today, incorporating robotics and autonomous systems nudged us into exploring new angles to the piece, except for just the geometry as an element. Being able to formulate new ideas to enhance or elaborate on the essence of the geometry is made easier by, for example, defamiliarization and using the relief pattern to highlight the spiral in our design.
With the use of ABB IRB4600-60 robots with clay end effectors to produce clay bricks, we were able to test, create, and recreate multiple directions for the project.
A complete design was formulated based on the arrangement logic of Fredenthal, which fuses octahedrons and tetrahedrons and then divides the piece into printable, stable, smaller groups of tetrahedrons and octahedrons for clay extrusion.
ACADEMIC, Group Work, 2023 [1nd Semester in MSD-RAS]
Supervisor: Saunders, Andrew
Partner: Shenaia Kaylion Turner, Yang Meng, Riddharth Jain