Visit I’m not a robot – an architecture exhibition that provides an opportunity to explore the relationship between humans and machines. How do robots impact the way we build, think and live? And what does the fact that a machine can learn and create by itself mean for us?
Embark on a journey through the history of robots: from the idea for a steam-powered pigeon to robots that draw, build and design architecture. The exhibition provides unique insight into how the world-leading architect duo Gramazio Kohler use robots as collaborators in their work on structure and aesthetics.
The exhibition gives the entire family a chance to explore the universe of robots and discover how the architecture and design of tomorrow will involve collaboration between humans and machines. See breathtaking architecture constructed by robots, and have a go at your own AI art.
The robot is by no means a new invention. For millennia, humans have dreamed of creating life out of mechanics. Take, for example, Talos the Greek bronze giant and Leonardo da Vinci’s mechanical knight, or WALL·E and R2-D2 from the world of film.
In the 20th century, the dream came true. The Industrial Revolution sparked a technological development, in which machines started to replace human hands. In 1920, the Czech writer Karel Čapek christened the machines ‘robots’ – from the Czech word for ‘worker’.
Today, we are encountering yet another change. Artificial Intelligence and advanced robotics are challenging our notions of what it means to be human. Machines are no longer created merely to help us; they can learn, think, create, and even feel.
The Swiss architects Fabio Gramazio and Mathias Kohler are pioneers in the field of robotics in architecture. For more than two decades, they have been investigating how robots can be co-creators in the design of buildings.
In I’m Not a Robot they reveal how technology and craft can come together in surprising, sensuous forms, in which both humans and machines lose a little control, with something totally new emerging.
