Robert Stuart-Smith is the Director of the MSD-RAS degree program, Assistant Professor of Architecture, and Affiliate Faculty in Engineering’s GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania. He leads the Autonomous Manufacturing Lab in Penn’s Department of Architecture and University College London’s Department of Computer Science, managing over $5 million in research and collaborating with industry partners such as Cemex, Skanska, Mace, Burohappold, and Ultimaker. Stuart-Smith’s research intersects design, computation, robotic fabrication, and collective robotic construction. His Aerial Additive Manufacturing research, published in Nature, demonstrates the first in-flight additive manufacturing by cooperating drones. Integrating robotic manufacturing with architectural design, Stuart-Smith addresses the environmental and economic costs of production while enhancing their cultural and aesthetic impacts. He co-directs Robert Stuart-Smith Design and was a co-founder of Kokkugia. Author of the book Behavioural Production, he has published in journals including Nature, Science Robotics, and AD Architectural Design. Included in the permanent collection at Frac Centre-Val de Loire, his work has been exhibited at Venice, Tallinn, Beijing, and Prague Architecture Biennales. He has taught at AA, WashU, RMIT, U.Innsbruck, and lectured at institutions such as ETHZ, U.Stuttgart, MIT, CCA, Sci-Arc, AA, Angewandte, Strelka Institute, and Tsinghua. His work has been featured by BBC Click, New Scientist, Smithsonian, Architizer, France 3, and others.
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