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Ideas take
physical form.

Bringing robotics into your creative workflow.
From the first parameter to the final movement.

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Parametric Robot Control
by Johannes Braumann · Association for Robots in Architecture

Fabrication studyKUKA Agilus ultra · 6 axes
A closer look at robotic motion
KUKA Agilus ultra robot following a layered fabrication path

One workflow.
Many robots.

Workflow

Design and fabrication
in one environment.

Stay in the tools you know. PRC connects your geometry to robot motion, so you can move between design and making.

Design

Build robot workflows in Grasshopper and Blender. Connect your own tools with the gRPC API.

GrasshopperBlendergRPC API

Simulate

Preview robot motion, check reachability and collisions, and work with tools and external axes.

KinematicsCollision checking

Make

Generate robot programs or connect to supported controllers. Keep design and making in sync.

Code generationRobot control

Architecture

A server that does the heavy lifting.
Clients that stay light.

Your tools send the tasks. PRC handles the robotics and returns the results. Connect a plugin, a script, or an application of your own. The same robotics core sits behind all of them.

Design clients connect over gRPC to PRC Server for kinematics, simulation, collision checking and code generation. PRC connects to supported robot controllers or exports robot programs.

Your tools

GrasshopperParametric workflows
BlenderGeometry Nodes
Your applicationPython · C# · JavaScript · and more
gRPC
The robotics core

PRC Server

Parametric Robot Control Server
  • Kinematics & simulation
  • Collision checking
  • Robot code generation
  • Supported controller connections

One shared computation layer

Control

Your robots

Explore the architecture

Selected projects

From fabrication to performance.

A robotic milling spindle carving a sculptural surface
Subtractive fabrication

Shape what comes next.

Robotic milling

ABB robot assembling an earthen structure from blocks
Material exploration

A new way to build.

Robotic assembly · SCALExD

Industrial robots in an interactive exhibition with visitors
Creative robotics

Move beyond the expected.

Interactive installations

What will you make?

We started with KUKA|prc to make robots accessible to the creative industry. PRC carries that on, for more robots and more tools.

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