Munich, Neunburg vorm Wald, Hannover 2014-2015

Robochop is an interactive factory that allows people to have individual, self-designed designs made in real-time by large industrial robots.
The project can be seen as both an art project and a technology showcase to illustrate Industry 4.0.

At the heart of Robochop is a simple app that runs on all web-enabled mobile devices and makes it possible to create a variety of designs in just a few simple steps through a sophisticated user interface. Countless shapes and variations can be created from a cube in the app, which can be a stool, table, art object, or something else entirely. 

With a few clicks, these designs are then sent to the robots, which make unique pieces from it in a size of 50x50x50cm, and send these to the designers.

Robochop took place in its own exhibition hall in Hanover on the occasion of Cebit 2015 and was the main attraction of the technology convention. 

During the fair, thousands of designs were drawn, produced, and sent to people from all over the world. Those who could not be present during the production of their design also had a video of their design being produced sent to them.

Behind Robochop is the design studio Kramweisshaar, for which I was involved in the project as a multidisciplinary designer. 

My tasks in this project were manifold: from the development to the actual event, they ranged from improving the user interface to operating the robots to developing the camera system for video production.

Within a few weeks, an international team consisting of robot experts, programmers, artists, photographers and designers developed and tested the whole project. A significant part of the preparation took place in Neunburg vorm Wald, where the test runs of all steps were tried out in a robot test lab, the production parameters were optimised and all sample designs for the large shelf in the background were created and produced. Here I also gained a lot of knowledge about robotics and learned how to interact with large industrial robots.

Offizielle Projektwebsite: robochop.com
Bericht über Robochop auf dezeen.com

Munich, Neunburg vorm Wald, Hannover 2014-2015