On April 15, 2015, University of Michigan's President Mark Schlissel and Taubman College Architecture and Urban Planning Dean Monica Ponce de Leon broke ground with donor, A. Alfred Taubman on the new wing of the Art & Architecture building. [...]
The ceremonial shoveling of the ground was performed by Taubman College's Kuka robot, normally used for architectural digital fabrication research, painted maize and blue for the occasion.
— Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Previously: University of Michigan revives plan for architecture school addition and doubles budget to $28M
Also, don't miss our recent Dean's List feature with Monica Ponce de Leon, the Dean at UM's Taubman College.
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hmm. so instead of sending a politician to a ground breaking, they sent a robot?
i guess this is the start of automating politician's jobs, with the hope eventually replacing them entirely with robots? this could be the start of a good thing.
Politicians are essentially robots now. You program them with money.
That was the point of the I,Robot series(not the movie) that a robot programed to do no harm would make the best decisions regarding the future of mankind.
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