Robotics Institute professor Maria Yablonina is working on a collaboration with Hassell architects that has just received funding.
As reported in Arcitecture and Design, the “project sees the practice collaborate with architects and roboticists Brady Peters and Maria Yablonina from the University of Toronto to create a new framework for reconfigurable robotics, going beyond the traditional robotics for space operations.
The robotic system will be developed in consideration of the necessary material manipulation routines for execution of the identified construction method, as well as constraints of working in the lunar environment, including low gravity, space dust, and second and/or third person operation.”
The article cites that the project has “been made possible through the Open Space Innovation Platform (OSIP), a subsidiary of the ESA’s Discovery & Preparation Programme, that lays the groundwork for ESA’s short- to medium-term future activities. The Discovery element of this programme supports studies into novel space technology and applications. OSIP provides Discovery and other ESA programmes with a platform to find the best research to support.”
To read more about it, click here. Congratulations, Maria!