Over the years, architects’ toolsets have evolved—from paper, pens, and rulers to modeling clay, scanners, and hot-wire cutters.

While many of the tools and processes have changed, one thing has remained the same: architects build a physical model of the design before creating the final product.But what if you could feed your digital design to a small robotic arm equipped with all the tools necessary to bring your physical model to fruition? A researcher at Perkins and Will has created just that—the Mobile Robotic Assistant for Architectural Design (MRAAD, for short).

Watch the video to learn more about this innovative robotic arm for architects.Hakim Hasan, Architectural Roboticist, Perkins and Will: I’ve been able to do things that I am very passionate about, and doing these things, it’s making a positive impact in the world that we live in. I was never good in school, up until early high school, when I started doing technical drafting.

I was super, super excited about this because it was a way for me to take the ideas that I had in my head and kind of realize them. I’m a researcher integrating robotics in the architectural practice. MRAAD stands for Mobile Robotic Assistant for Architectural Design. The tools that we chose to equip MRAAD with, they are twofold.

One set of tools are typical tools that architects use that I see throughout our offices—so it’s like hot-wire cutters, laser cutters, and so forth. And then the second set of tools are tools that would help designers that would be easily translatable into robotic-construction processes.

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