Watch robots build a flying beetle-inspired pavilion at the V&A
Machines are taking over the world, and a new robot-built pavilion in the courtyard of London’s V&A is proof. Architect Achim Menges designed the Elytra Filament Pavilion – a canopy of tightly woven carbon fibre cells – drawing on the durable, yet lightweight, shells of flying beetles called elytra. The structure currently comprises 40 hexagonal […]
