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Virginia Tech students use robot to pursue the cutting edge

Amy Friedenberger The Roanoke Times 16 hrs ago

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The robot was several feet tall — painted in burnt orange — and at the end of its arm was stretched a hot piece of wire. The wire gradually cut with precision through an eight-foot tall column of Styrofoam.

The students then pulled the block apart into four pieces and reassembled them into an artistic design with waves and edges — resembling something you’d see in an art museum.

“This is all about evolving technologies,” said Robert Dunay, director for the Center for Design Research at Virginia Tech.

The students were mostly studying architecture, interior design and environmental design, and the robot was the last stage of an exercise learning about evolving technologies that are changing professions.

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