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Keith Evan Green is the Jean and Douglas McLean Professor of Human Centered Design and professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Green is also Graduate Field member in the PhD Programs of Information Science and Robotics.
Green's Architectural Robotics Lab (ARL) imagines rooms and their furnishings as robots that enable, support, and augment inhabitants.
Practically, the ARL designs "robot-rooms" and studies how these reconfigurable rooms partner with people and what people make of them.
At the interface of design, robotics, and psychology, Architectural Robotics describes meticulous, artfully-designed physical environments and their components that act, think, and grow with their inhabitants. Architectural Robotics supports and augments us as we do things we do: work, play, learn, roam, discover, create, interconnect, heal, age.... The novelty of the lab's research lies in its recognition of the built environment, from furniture and rooms to buildings and metropolis, as a next frontier of human-machine interaction. Green's book, Architectural Robotics: Ecosystems of Bits, Bytes and Biology (MIT Press), defines this emerging field.