Timber is a renewable, carbon sequestering and accessible construction material that has been in use for over 10,000 years.

Robotic timber assembly (RTA) engages with robotics systems in architectural research for integrally-attached
timber plate structures (IATPS), a relatively new method of constructing segmented shells. These are now made possible by robotic fabrication and assembly. IATPS are too complex to manufacture without computational design and automated fabrication (milling and assembly in the context of this project). By working towards increased automation in this segment of timber structures, the usefulness of timber plate structures has been expanded.

Prototypes employ a construction logic that is self-intersecting, contributing to the development of IATPS and its adoption in industry as a viable and robotically deployable timber construction method. The core of the research can be found in the design and optimisation of integral joints for use in multi-robotic assembly processes.