…are large autonomous robots that move incredibly slowly. Sloth-bots, influenced by their interactions with people, imperceptibly reconfigure the architecture.
Sloth-bots build on robotic technology developed by Dr Guido Bugmann famously incorporated into Donald Rodney’s “Psalms”.
“Psalms” was exhibited in the South London Gallery as a part of Rodney’s last exhibition entitled “Nine Night in Eldorado”, in October 1997.
The wheelchair uses 8 sonar sensors, shaft-encoders, a video camera and a rate gyroscope to determine its position. A neural network using normalised RBF nodes encodes the sequence of 25 semi-circular sequences of positions forming the trajectory.
http://www.tech.plym.ac.uk/soc/research/neural/research/wheelc.htm
The control system comprises a laptop PC 586 running a control program written in CORTEX-PRO, and linked to a Rug Warrior board built around the 68000 microcontroller.
Sloth-bots use additional technology to link between the Arch-OS vision tool and the autonomous architectural forms.
With compliments to Robert Breer, EAT70
Previous projects
- Arch-OS @ CeBIT 2004
- Arch-OS and the The Ami-I-Able Network
- Arch-OS launch
- Arch-OS Radio
- Arch-OS Workshop 06/05
- Arch-OS/OZ
- Buro Happold Mult-disciplinary Workshop
- Crystalpunk Workshop for Soft Architecture
- Cybrid Landscape
- Flock
- Infectious Space
- Limited edition Arch-OS CD-ROM
- Living Building
- Phonebooth
- Portland Square Complex
- PSQ Symphony #1
- Psychometric Architecture
- Psychometric Architecture
- Random Lift Button
- Read-Write-Fold
- Reading Room
- Recombinating Architecture
- Research TV
- Screensaver
- Slothbots
- SMS
- Unit 20-Bartlett School of Architecture
- WAP Architecture
- Water/data-fall