U Penn students control robots remotely to complete semester work

At the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design, students taking part in a Graduate Architecture Program seminar developed by U Penn Professor Ezio Blasetti have found a way to complete work fabricating design projects despite not being able to physically access the school's fabrication facilities.  As part of Blasetti's Computational Composite Form Computational Design & Carbon Fiber Robotic fabrication seminar, faculty and students were able to control digital fabrication robots in the school's new Advanced Research & Innovation Lab remotely through a suite of remote access tools provided by Dropbox.  U Penn Professor Ezio Blasetti controlling fabrication robots in his studio. Image courtesy of the Weitzman School of Design. According to the school, "This quick adaptation may signal new ways that universities will need to reimagine learning experiences. With the shape of the fall 2020 semester deeply uncertain, universities may be turning to similar structures to meet s...