- This book is a documentation of the joint workshop of MIT, ETH and
Tongji University, which integrates COMPAS and FURobotic to explore the
advances in additive manufacturing and robotic fabrication About ten
years ago, Professor Stanford Anderson from MIT initiated the
joint-workshop program with Tongji University in Shanghai and has
continued his decade-long collaborations with us since then. The Robotic
Force Printing Workshop this year can be seen as a respectful tribute
and continuity to such tradition. Philip F. Yuan, a professor of Tongji
University and the founder of Fab-Union Technology was in collaboration
with Professor Philippe Block of ETH throughout the 23-day workshop. In
addition to the design-fabrication studios, the workshop also consists
of three field trips in association with one academic forum, four public
lectures and a series of teaching modules on fundamental concepts of
COMPAS and FURobotic to explore the integration between novel structural
designs and the advances in additive manufacturing and robotic
fabrication.