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Small Robots Making Large Structures | Maria Yablonina | TEDxStuttgart

2,909 views · Published 6 November 2018 · 14:50 · Indexed 25 September 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2018 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Maria Yablonina is an artist, researcher and designer working in the field of robotic fabrication with a focus on custom, task specific machines for making.

Currently Maria is a research associate and doctoral candidate at the Institute for Computational Design and Construction at the University of Stuttgart. Maria’s research focus is in the area of Robotic Fabrication and Computational Design in Architecture. In particular, she works with bespoke tools, robots and methods designed to perform fabrication tasks in an on-site environment.

In her work she argues that in the field of digital fabrication designers and researchers need to look beyond existing machines and start inventing their own architecture-specific custom robotic tools for construction and fabrication tasks.

Maria’s work includes development of hardware and software solutions as well as complementing material systems intended to extend the existing catalogue of methods towards addressing the inherent scale, cost and barrier of entry limitations of conventional robotic fabrication processes. Maria Yablonina is an artist, researcher and designer working in the field of robotic fabrication with a focus on custom, task specific machines for making.

Maria’s research focus is in the area of Robotic Fabrication and Computational Design in Architecture. In particular, she works with bespoke tools, robots and methods designed to perform fabrication tasks in an on-site environment. In her work she argues that in the field of digital fabrication designers and researchers need to look beyond existing machines and start inventing their own architecture-specific custom robotic tools for construction and fabrication tasks. Maria’s work includes development of hardware and software solutions as well as complementing material systems intended to extend the existing catalogue of methods towards addressing the inherent scale, cost and barrier of entry limitations of conventional robotic fabrication processes. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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