
Congratulations to ITECH alumni Zahra Shakeri, Shirin Shevidi, and Samuel Slezak for winning the Best Thesis Award in the category Handwerk und Technik of the "Auf IT gebaut – Bauberufe mit Zukunft" competition 2025! 🎉
Their thesis project "Dis-Co: Artificial Reasoning in Human-Robot Collaborative Disassembly Processes" focused on bi-directional communication and feedback in HRC for the AEC industry. Recognizing the challenges of construction disassembly—uncertainties relating to structural analysis, material performance, and the resultant need for adaptive sequences—the team enhanced a robots’ capabilities as assistive tools: assessing structure, proposing disassembly sequences, and performing collaborative pick-and-place tasks. Their approach used natural language models in several languages to facilitate user-friendly interactions.
We're proud to see our ITECH students pushing the boundaries of architecture and technology at the University of Stuttgart.
The research was developed as a thesis project at the Integrative Technologies and Architectural Design Research (ITECH) Master of Science program at the University of Stuttgart and supervised by Professor Achim Menges, Professor Jan Knippers, Professor Thomas Wortmann, Felix Amtsberg, and Gili Ron.
For more information on their thesis project, see https://www.itech.uni-stuttgart.de/itech-thesis-projects/2024-dis-co
Auf IT gebaut is under the patronage of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection. For more information about the competition, see: https://www.aufitgebaut.de/