In this project, we proposed a new approach to the bench manufacturing workflow by integrating the industrial robotic arm. Traditionally it's expensive and time-consuming for human labors to manually fabricate one to one scale chair prototypes. Especially when it comes to those complex and curved geometries, each iteration of the chair could take human labors months to build. 

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With a self-developed EPS foam cutting plugin in Rhino3d Grasshopper, users are now able to synchronize two industrial robots. Using the same method I used in the project - Robotic Rod cutting, the user carves the complex double-curvature surfaces first and switches to this fabrication method (image above) to trim the extra edges off. By assembled and molding and casting the piece, we could a achieve one-to-one scale metal bench like below. By using the same technique we could carve different complex geometries for fast prototyping in the field of furniture, product, and architectural units.