{"id":131211,"date":"2021-11-25T12:43:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T20:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/robots-and-ai-assist-in-designing-and-building-swiss-universitys-hanging-gardens"},"modified":"2021-11-25T12:43:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T20:43:06","slug":"robots-and-ai-assist-in-designing-and-building-swiss-universitys-hanging-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/robots-and-ai-assist-in-designing-and-building-swiss-universitys-hanging-gardens","title":{"rendered":"Robots and AI assist in designing and building Swiss university\u2019s \u2018hanging gardens\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/robots-and-ai-assist-in-designing-and-building-swiss-universitys-hanging-gardens2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Architecture and construction have always been, rather quietly, at the bleeding edge of tech and materials trends. It\u2019s no surprise, then, especially at a renowned technical university like ETH Zurich, to find a project utilizing AI and robotics in a new approach to these arts. The automated design and construction they are experimenting with show how homes and offices might be built a decade from now.<\/p>\n<p>The project is a sort of huge sculptural planter, \u201changing gardens\u201d inspired by the legendary structures in the ancient city of Babylon. (Incidentally, it was my ancestor, Robert Koldewey, who excavated\/looted the famous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/43036-ishtar-gate.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ishtar Gate<\/a> to the place.) <\/p>\n<p>Begun in 2019, Semiramis (named after the queen of Babylon back then) is a collaboration between human and AI designers. The general idea of course came from the creative minds of its creators, architecture professors <a href=\"https:\/\/gramaziokohler.arch.ethz.ch\/web\/d\/projekte\/409.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler<\/a>. But the design was achieved by putting the basic requirements, such as size, the necessity of watering and the style of construction, through a set of computer models and machine learning algorithms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Architecture and construction have always been, rather quietly, at the bleeding edge of tech and materials trends. It\u2019s no surprise, then, especially at a renowned technical university like ETH Zurich, to find a project utilizing AI and robotics in a new approach to these arts. The automated design and construction they are experimenting with show [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}