Stuart-Smith, R. Behavioural Production: Semi-Autonomous Approaches to Architectural Design, Robotic Fabrication and Collective Robotic Construction. Taylor & Francis, 2024.
Read MoreStuart-Smith, R. (2024). A Multifarious, Anisotropic, Material Agency: Speculations on Additive Manufactured Architecture. In G. Esquivel (Ed.), Design Technology and Digital Production: An Architecture Anthology (1st ed., pp. 75–80). Taylor & Francis.
Read MoreVakhshouri, P., Luo, J., Su, S., Tang, H., Wang, B., Faircloth, B., King, N., Stuart-Smith, R. “Ceramic Forest: Robotic Die-Extrusion Variable Forming for Architectural Ceramics” In Crawford, A.,Diniz, N., Beckett, R., Vanucchi, J., Swackhamer, M. (Eds.), ACADIA 2023: Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA): Habits of the Anthroprocene, IngramSpark, 2023: 381–392.
Read MoreWu, R., Moriuchi, S., Li, S., Chen, A., Anderson, J., King, N., Stuart-Smith, R. “Dynamic Slip Casting: An Efficient Robotic Approach to Geometrically Variable Ceramic Part Production” In Crawford, A.,Diniz, N., Beckett, R., Vanucchi, J., Swackhamer, M. (Eds.), ACADIA 2023: Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA): Habits of the Anthroprocene. IngramSpark, 2023: 267–277.
Read MoreStuart-Smith, R. “Foreword”, In Building Futures, Richard Garber, Whiley, UK, 2023: 11-19.
Read MoreM. Akbarzadeh, D. Aviv, H. Jamelle, & R. Stuart-Smith (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA): Hybrids and Haecceities. IngramSpark, 2023.
Read MoreStuart-Smith, R., & Danahy, P. 3D Generative Design for Non-Experts: Multiview Perceptual Similarity with Agent-Based Reinforcement Learning. In P. Herrera, C. Dreifuss-Serrano, P. Gómez, & L. Arris-Calderon (Eds.), Critical Appropriations - Proceedings of the XXVI Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics (SIGraDi 2022), 2022: 115–126.
Read MoreDunaway, D., Rothbart, D., Gwinn, L., King, N., Stuart-Smith, R. “Introducing Bespoke Properties to Slip Cast Elements: Designing a Process for Robotically Controlled Rotational Casting” In M. Akbarzadeh, D. Aviv, H. Jamelle, & R. Stuart-Smith (Eds.), ACADIA 2022: Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA): Hybrids and Haecceities, IngramSpark, 2023, 44–55.
Read MoreLi, C., Yuan, M., Han, Z., Faircloth, B., Anderson, J., King, N., Stuart-Smith, R. “Smart Branching: An Experimental Method for Heterogeneous Branching Networks using Non-planar 3D Printed Clay Deposition”In M. Akbarzadeh, D. Aviv, H. Jamelle, & R. Stuart-Smith (Eds.), ACADIA 2022: Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA): Hybrids and Haecceities, IngramSpark, 2023, 90–97.
Read MoreStuart-Smith, R., Darekar, D., Danahy, P., Bahadir Kocer, B., Pawar, V., & Kovac, M. “Collective Aerial Additive Manufacturing and Incrementally Built Shell Structure Design”, In M. Akbarzadeh, D. Aviv, H. Jamelle, & R. Stuart-Smith (Eds.), ACADIA 2022: Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA): Hybrids and Haecceities (pp. 44–55). IngramSpark, 2023.
Read MoreZhang, K., Chermprayong, P., Xiao, F., Tzoumanikas, D., Dams, B., Kay, S., Kocer, B. B., Burns, A., Orr, L., Choi, C., Darekar, D. D., Li, W., Hirschmann, S., Soana, V., Ngah, S. A., Sareh, S., Choubey, A., Margheri, L., Pawar, V. M, Ball, R., Williams, C., Shepherd,P., Leutenegger, S., Stuart-Smith, R. & Kovac, M. (2022). Aerial additive manufacturing with multiple autonomous robots. Nature, 609 (7928), 709–717. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04988-4
Read MoreM. Akbarzadeh, D. Aviv, H. Jamelle, & R. Stuart-Smith (Eds.), Projects of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA): Hybrids and Haecceities. IngramSpark, 2023.
Read MoreStuart-Smith, R., & Danahy, P. (2022). Visual Character Analysis within Algorithmic Design: Quantifying Aesthetics Relative to Structural and Geometric Design Criteria. Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) [Volume 1], 1, 131–140. https://doi.org/10.52842/CONF.CAADRIA.2022.1.131
Read MoreWang, Y., Liu, Y., Studebaker, R., Faircloth, B., & Stuart-Smith, R. (2023). Ceramic Incremental Forming–A Rapid Mold-Less Forming Method of Variable Surfaces. In P. F. Yuan, H. Chai, C. Yan, K. Li, & T. Sun (Eds.), Hybrid Intelligence: Proceedings for the 4th Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2022), 2022: 499–513. Springer Nature Singapore.
Read MoreStuart-Smith, R, Danahy, P, Revelo, N. “Topological and Material Formation: A Generative Design Framework for Additive Manufacturing Integrating Material-Physics Simulation and Structural Analysis.” ACADIA 2020: Distributed Proximities, Acadia. 2020. 290–299
Read MoreK. H. Petersen, N. Napp, R. Stuart-Smith, D. Rus, M. Kovac, “A Review of Collective Robotic Construction”. Science Robotics. 4, eaau8479 (2019), 13 Mar 2019: Vol. 4, Issue 28, DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.aau8479, 2019.
Read MoreStuart-Smith, Robert. “Approaching Natural Complexity - The Algorithmic Embodiment of Production.” In Meeting Nature Halfway, edited by Marjan Colletti and Peter Massin, Innsbruck University Press. 2018. 260–69
Read MoreSustarevas, J., Butters, D., Hammid, M., Pawar, V. M., Dwyer, G., & Stuart-Smith, R. “MAP - A Mobile Agile Printer Robot for on-site Construction”. In IEEE Staff (Ed.), 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2019: 2441–2448. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). https://doi.org/10.1109/iros.2018.8593815
Read MoreSustarevas, J., Benjamin Tan, K. X., Gerber, D., Stuart-Smith, R., & Pawar, V. M. YouWasps: Towards Autonomous Multi-Robot Mobile Deposition for Construction. In IEEE Staff (Ed.), IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2019: 2320–2327. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS40897.2019.8967766
Read MorePawar, V. M., Stuart-Smith, R., & Scully, P. “Toward autonomous architecture: The convergence of digital design, robotics, and the built environment.” Science Robotics, 2(5), DOI: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.aan3686, 2017
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