VOJEXT is a European project that aims to design, develop, validate and demonstrate robotic systems for industry. S+T+ARTS is a European Commissioned initiative that supports and awards the most cutting-edge works of transdisciplinary European science, art and technology. works. Waag is partner in both VOJEXT and S+T+ARTS.

Take a look at the three residencies and their challenge here. The first two are hosted and tech-provided by Robotnik (Spain). The third is hosted and tech-provided by Fondazione Istituto Italiano Di Tecnologica (Italy).

Robotics in Construction (Robotnik) focuses on developing critical, creative and new approaches to human-robot collaboration in construction. The main goal is to design safe and efficient interaction between humans and robots for handling wide surface objects (like plasterboards or walls). A specific topic of interest would be experimenting with gripping, manipulating, and mimicking hand-type end-effectors that can support different surface treatment techniques. Understanding creative and intuitive movement, and how such movement and patterns can be explored and modelled as interaction language between the robot and the human collaborator are some of the artistic and design research questions which might be of interest in this challenge.