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SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM

Intelligent Built Environment: Frontiers in AI-driven Design and Additive Construction

Symposium Chair(s):
Yi Wei, Daniel Tay, Rushi Dai

Title of Symposium:
Intelligent Built Environment: Frontiers in AI-driven Design and Additive Construction

Symposium Description:

The convergence of artificial intelligence, digital technologies, and advanced manufacturing is reshaping how the built environment is designed, constructed, and operated. Centred on intelligent design, additive manufacturing and construction, this symposium addresses frontier research and innovative applications for the built environment. It explores the integration of AI with architecture, engineering, and construction across the building life cycle.
Topics include, but are not limited to, generative AI, computational design and AI-assisted material development; performance-driven design optimisation; building information modelling and digital twins; robotic construction and additive manufacturing; embodied intelligence and human–robot collaboration; multimodal sensing, process monitoring, quality assurance, and intelligent construction management; and intelligent building operation, maintenance, and adaptive control.
The symposium aims to bring together researchers and industry professionals from architecture, civil engineering, material science, computer science, robotics, and advanced manufacturing to exchange research findings, methods, and application case studies. It provides a forum for discussing the opportunities and challenges of intelligent technologies in enhancing design quality, construction efficiency, environmental performance, and occupant experience, while encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration toward a sustainable, resilient, and human-centred built environment.

Intelligent Robotics and Smart Manufacturing: From Actuation to Autonomous Systems

Symposium Chair(s):
TAO Bo, GONG Zeyu, Li An

Title of Symposium:
Intelligent Robotics and Smart Manufacturing: From Actuation to Autonomous Systems

Symposium Description:

Robotics is becoming a cornerstone of advanced manufacturing. Advances in actuation, sensing, control and artificial intelligence are enabling robots that are more dexterous, adaptive and autonomous, while modern factories increasingly rely on intelligent robots to improve flexibility, quality and productivity. This symposium brings together researchers working across the robotics stack, from actuation hardware to autonomous systems, to discuss how intelligent robots will shape the future of manufacturing.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Smart actuators and artificial muscles, including soft, compliant and stimuli-responsive actuators
  • Sensing, modelling and control of robots and robotic manipulators
  • Embodied intelligence, robot learning and human–robot collaboration
  • Robotics for smart manufacturing, including robotic machining, assembly, inspection and autonomous production systems
  • Integration of AI, digital twins and data-driven methods in robotic manufacturing

The half-day symposium will feature nine talks: two keynote lectures by leading experts, four invited talks by early- and mid-career researchers, and three contributed talks selected through an open call for abstracts. Contributions from both academia and industry are welcome, and the symposium aims to foster dialogue between the robotics and advanced manufacturing communities.