Smart Architecture-Bots and Industry 4.0 Principles for Architecture Eliot Rosenberg 1 , M Hank Haeusler 2 , Rebekah Araullo 3 , Nicole Gardner 4 1,2,3,4 University of New South Wales 1,2,3,4 {e.rosenberg|m.haeusler|r.araullo|n.gardner}@unsw.edu.au Industrial robots from the automotive industry are being repurposed for use in architecture fabrication research in academic institutions around the globe. They are adapted for a variety of fabrication techniques due to the versatility of their 6-axis arm configuration. Though their physical versatility is an advantage in research, their computational and sensory capabilities are rudimentary and have not evolved significantly in the past forty years of their existence. In the meantime the manufacturing industry has moved on by introducing new forms of manufacturing namely Industry 4.0. In this position paper we look at the characteristics necessary to bring architecture robotics into line with Industry 4.0 standards. By presenting the fabrication process as a relationship model of 'tool-process-outcome' we will examine the way in which these entities and their interrelations might be augmented vis-a-vis Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Social Robotics and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) approaches such as the Tangible User Interface (TUI). Keywords: Robotics, Social robotics, Innovation in robotics, Industry 4.0, Human-robot interaction INTRODUCTION Robotic fabrication is a rapidly expanding field of inquiry in architecture research. Many institutions are currently investigating applications of industrial robot arms for manufacturing unique and complex structural forms, with various notable scholarly con- tributions by Gramazio & Kohler (2014a, b); work from Taubman College / University of Michigan (2014), as well as the Association for Robots in Architecture (2014), to name but a few. The robots used in re- search undertakings of these groups are generally 6- axis robot arms that were initially designed for simple repetitive tasks in the automotive industry. These in- dustrial robots are rudimentary machines that are op- erated by researchers with specialised computer pro- gramming skills. Their accuracy, speed and versatil- ity make them an advantageous tool for architecture fabrication research, yet in the field of robotics these machines are far from the state of the art [ER1]. Hav- ing applied industrial robots successfully in the man- ufacturing industry for over forty years, manufactur- ing is beginning to turn its attention towards newer fields, to step away from manufacturing principles defined in the third industrial revolution, also known Fabrication - Robots - Volume 2 - eCAADe 33 | 251