Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- EDITORIAL -- ABOUT THE GUEST-EDITORS -- SPOTLIGHT: VISUAL HIGHLIGHTS OF THE ISSUE -- INTRODUCTION: AUTHORING ROBOTIC PROCESSES -- Robots -- Start, Crash, Reboot -- Challenging Scale -- Venturing Out of Bounds -- Robotics Pioneers -- Theory of Change - Change of Theory -- Architecture in the Second Digital Age -- Acknowledgement -- Notes -- INTEGRATING ROBOTIC FABRICATION IN THE DESIGN PROCESS -- The Role of the Physical Model in Computational Design -- The Design of the Robotic Process -- The Integration of Computation and Fabrication -- Potentials of Robotic Technologies for Design Practice -- Notes -- NESTED VOIDS -- SEQUENTIAL FRAMES -- VERTICAL AVENUE -- MESH TOWERS -- BENT STRATIFICATIONS -- UNDULATING TERRACES -- MESH-MOULD: ROBOTICALLY FABRICATED SPATIAL MESHES AS REINFORCED CONCRETE FORMWORK -- Conventional Construction Versus Robotic Fabrication -- The Dilemma with Robots -- Division of Mass and Information -- Mesh-Mould Combined Formwork and Reinforcement System for Concrete -- Potential for Design, Planning and Construction -- Notes -- ROBOTS AND ARCHITECTURE: EXPERIMENTS, FICTION, EPISTEMOLOGY -- Robots and Fiction -- Utopian Perspectives -- From Fiction to Conversation -- Notes -- ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN ARCHITECTURAL ROBOTICS: THE SIMULTANEITY OF CRAFT, ECONOMICS AND DESIGN -- Startups -- Recovering Lost Ground -- Design and Production -- Design and Build -- Notes -- ODICO FORMWORK ROBOTICS -- Note -- ROBOFOLD AND ROBOTS.IO -- Variation as Standard -- The Process -- Robots to the Core -- MACHINEOUS -- ROB TECHNOLOGIES -- Notes -- GREYSHED -- Notes -- COMPUTATION OR REVOLUTION -- The Market of Robotics -- Specificity of Robots or Specificities of Architecture? -- Artificial Intelligence and Computation as 'Communism of Genius'.

A Temporary Conclusion on Computational Literacy and Politics -- Notes -- CHANGING BUILDING SITES: INDUSTRIALISATION AND AUTOMATION OF THE BUILDING PROCESS -- The Establishment of Industrially Produced Elements and New Materials -- Rationalisation and Industrialisation of the Building Process -- Towards Automated Housing Prefabrication -- Single-Task Construction Robots -- Integrated Automated Construction Sites -- Implementation at a Larger Scale? -- Notes -- IN-SITU FABRICATION: MOBILE ROBOTIC UNITS ON CONSTRUCTION SITES -- ON-SITE MACHINES -- BASIC RESEARCH -- Mobile Robotic Unit -- Handling Material Tolerances -- Human-Machine Interaction -- Positioning and Localisation Techniques -- FIRST APPLICATION -- FINDINGS AND POSSIBILITIES -- Notes -- TOWARDS ROBOTIC SWARM PRINTING -- Material Tunability in Additive Fabrication -- Cross-Platform Communication and Coordination in Additive Fabrication -- Robotic Additive Fabrication Case Study: Print-in-Place -- Robotic Additive Fabrication Case Study: Cable- Suspended 3D Printing -- Robotic Additive Fabrication Case Study: Templated Swarm Printing -- Towards Robotic Swarm Printing -- Notes -- MACHINES FOR RENT: EXPERIMENTS BY NEW-TERRITORIES -- DARWINIAN STAR-GATE -- Instructions -- Precautions for use -- ANTIPERSONNEL NYMPHOMANIAC WANDERER -- Instructions -- Precautions for use -- INTROVERTED ECZEMETAL RECYCLER -- Instructions -- Precautions for use -- DIFFERENCE AND REPETITION/INTRICATE RANDOMISER -- Instructions -- Precautions for use -- BODY-BUILDER-SHITTER -- Instructions -- Precautions for use -- OCD PACKER -- Instructions -- Precautions for use -- ALGAE-SACHER-CYCLOTHYMIA -- Instructions -- Precautions for use -- BULIMIC ENCLOSURE-WEAVER -- Instructions -- Precautions for use -- THE ASTROLABE STUTTERER -- Instructions -- Precautions for use.

COUNTERPOINT: CRISIS! WHAT CRISIS? RETOOLING FOR MASS MARKETS IN THE 21ST CENTURY -- Laboratory Experiments and Entrepreneurial Initiatives -- Mass Markets -- Housing the Masses -- Notes -- CONTRIBUTORS -- ABOUT ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN.