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Log 36 (Winter 2016) explores the challenges and potentials posed to architecture by the rapidly accelerating field of robotics. Tossing aside the usual fabrication-focused discourse around robots, the 23 contributors to ROBOLOG investigate topics ranging from hyperrealistic robotic drag queens to machine vision to buildings that move. In addition to a collection of thought-provoking essays, this issue includes conversations with Elizabeth Diller, Nicholas de Monchaux and Ken Goldberg, and Chuck Hoberman. Rather than providing easy answers or touting cutting-edge technologies, ROBOLOG offers provocations to both architects and theorists. Robotic sensors, actuators, and networks have fundamentally transformed the world around us. What will architecture choose to do with them?

In this issue: Paola Antonelli visits humanoids; Erin Besler and Ian Besler patrol frontiers; Jacob Comerci dusts off Kunsthal I, Thomas Daniell reboots Expo ’70; Nicholas de Monchaux and Ken Goldberg reject the singularity; Elizabeth Diller rolls out a new idea; Adam Fure chews on hyperobjects; Chuck Hoberman tinkers with geometry; Greg Lynn advocates giant robots; Güvenç Özel calculates Bec0mings; Antoine Picon liberates automata; François Roche and Camille Lacadée instrumentalize fluids; Fred Scharmen retweets a house; Alex Schweder asks architecture to dance; Chelsea Spencer and Johannes Staudt actuate the Farnsworth; Jordan Squires outwits a chess puppet; Patrick Tresset automates the artist; Andrew Witt codes a precedent crawler; Liam Young spies fiducial markers.

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