An international architecture competition, hosted by the Seoul Metropolitan Government, set to find the best design for Seoul’s Robot Science Museum (RSM), a building that will help spur public interest in robotics. And the competition has found its winner—Turkey’s Melike Altinisik Architects (MAA) will build the RSM.
In its completed form, the building will have robot exhibits, as well as opportunities to experience artificial intelligence (AI), virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR), and holograms, according to designboom.
However, the first exhibition will actually be the building’s own construction, which will be partially built by robots. The robot team will mold, assemble, weld, and polish the metal plates for the spherical building’s sweeping façade. Another robot squad, according to designboom, will 3D print concrete for the building’s surrounding landscape.
Drones will also be utilized, which will help control robotic vehicles, data mapping, surveillance, and building inspections, New Atlas reports. Although robots and other technologies will be involved during construction, humans will most likely play a significant role throughout the process.
According to MAA in the announcement celebrating their winning idea, the RSM “is not only going to exhibit robots but actually from design, manufacturing to construction and services robots will be in charge. In other words RSM will start its ‘first exhibition’ with ‘its own construction’ by robots on site in early 2020 and is expected to be completed with the official opening slated for late 2022.”
All together, the design offers a link of robotic technologies from the building’s construction, robots in service, and exhibits filled with the latest in robotics.
