Buildings are traditionally designed as static artefacts of a design process with a linear lifecycle that eventually ends in abandonment or demolition. We seek to reappraise this unsustainable approach of designing buildings which are incapable of adapting to the dynamic future socio-economic demands of an evolving society.

Game of Robots aims to enable buildings to dynamically reconfigure to the changing needs of people in a continuous and adaptive life cycle. It is an artificially intelligent distributed robotic system for the assembly and reconfiguration of architecture. An ecology of simple robotic agents that collaborate to distribute a series of simple parts through intelligent sequencing to construct spatial structures.

A series of increasingly sophisticated robotic prototypes were developed for several tasks including: autonomous 3D mobility over a compatible unit system which they are able to lock on to, crawl over, carry, and assemble; as well as carrying out collaborative tasks by connecting to each other.

The multi-agent robotic architectural system is capable of continuous reformation at multiple scales. At the building scale, a spatial assembly algorithm is used to generate effective assemblies. While at a smaller scale, portions of the design goal are distributed in real-time communication with the physical robots.