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Robotic Ecologies

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the rise-of-the-machines dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "The University of Virginia (UVA) School of Architecture has started a new program about 'robotic ecologies' which wants to answer the question: Will robots take over architecture? As said the program leader, 'This research is not just about architectural machines that move. It is about groups of architectural machines that move with intelligence.' Apparently, buildings tracking our movements and adapting their shape or texture according human presence are not far fetched. Maybe one day, we'll talk to our homes and they'll answer."

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  1. Will bots replace Roland? by Harmonious+Botch · · Score: 4, Funny

    1)Make a bot that scans tech-related sites.
    2)Upon seeing new content, bot posts it to slashdot.
    3)Bribe the editors regularly.
    4)Put ads on your site.
    5)Link everything to your site.
    6)Profit!!

  2. Re:Flaws by IgLou · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're fine so long as you're not having sex on the counter. In which case the most likely thing would be a floating point error that causes speakers to blare out "Warning! Warning! Unauthorized biological organisms on the cooking surface! Sterilize! Sterilize!" That's when you regret your gas stove that it quickly adapts into a flame thrower.

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  3. homes as a species by anarchy_man3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was discussing with one of my friends about how we don't use houses, houses use us to build them and spread across the world. Houses as a species have evolved to adapt to all parts of the earth and even into space. Dude, like whooaaah...

  4. YOU live in it! by Lazerf4rt · · Score: 4, Funny

    What if a building were equipped with sensors to track your movement through a space and could adapt its shape, texture, light, sounds, and heat to your presence?

    So, we're talking about a thousand-ton slab of moving floors and sliding walls, changing its heat and lighting... with you inside it? Constantly transforming and shapeshifting, all running off some intern's Java program?

    All I can picture is that garbage-compactor scene from Star Wars.