Sebastian Andraos

HAL Robotics

VP Human-Machine Interactions

Product Development //
Pioneering Construction Robotics

Bio:

HAL Robotics are London-based robot control specialists focusing on novel applications of robotics in creative and construction industries. Founded by a multidisciplinary team of architects and engineers, HAL Robotics develop robust solutions, with highly flexible interfaces, for programming, simulation and universal machine control.
Since 2011, the team has participated in the creation of a dozen architectural robotics laboratories in Europe and Asia. Rising to the challenge of these experimental environments, HAL Robotics software solutions have already helped more than 200 institutions, and thousands of students and researchers get involved with industrial robotics.

Synopsis:

Through the prevalence of new tools and techniques, the opportunity exists today for inumerable fields to evolve. Increasing access to robotics represents the next phase of the intersection between design and construction, an undoubtedly fertile space where many architects and designers have the distinct opportunity to take more control over not only their work but the methods and processes with which it is made. The exercising of this control is seen to facilitate a fuller understanding of design processes and the decisions that help drive these processes from both ends; how construction works backwards to affect design and how design moves forwards to affect construction.

In-situ applications of robotics – whether applied to fully automated construction scenarios, or on the contrary envisioned as intelligent, service-oriented, distributed manufacturing systems – have remained an ongoing research topic since the early 1980s. Beyond the various sociological and economic challenges surrounding the application of such innovative processes, major technical issues are still to be addressed in order to ensure the compatibility of past and future research results with the requirements of the construction industry.

HAL Robotics develop an accessible vendor-agnostic software solution for simulation, programming and real-time control of robots and peripheral devices. These real-time interactions, sensor integration and machine interconnectivity are critical for adaptability, safety and autonomy in robotics, lending their solution to both traditional off-site manufacturing and robots in changing environments i.e. on-site.

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