Hans Jakob Wagner
Papers
15
Total Citations
405
H-Index
9
About
Hans Jakob Wagner is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of computational design, robotic fabrication, and sustainable timber construction. His work addresses one of the built environment's most pressing challenges: scaling digital automation to meet the demands of real-world architectural production. Wagner is best known for developing innovative robotic systems that bring advanced fabrication capabilities directly to construction sites, most notably through the Transportable Intelligent Machine (TIM)—a large-scale mobile robotic timber construction platform that has garnered over 120 citations and reshaped thinking around on-site automation. His contributions to the celebrated BUGA Wood Pavilion demonstrated how integrative co-design and robotic prefabrication can be deployed at architectural scale, earning nearly 100 citations. Wagner's research consistently pushes boundaries across multiple fronts: heterogeneous multi-robot cooperation for spatial winding, augmented reality-assisted human-robot collaboration, and circular construction methods that repurpose reclaimed timber using computational workflows. His growing body of work, accumulating nearly 400 citations across a decade, reflects a deeply integrative research philosophy—one that bridges computational intelligence, material sustainability, and practical construction innovation to fundamentally reimagine how buildings are designed and built.
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Top Papers
- 1Flexible and transportable robotic timber construction platform – TIM120 citations · 2020
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- 6Towards data-informed co-design in digital fabrication21 citations · 2023
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- 10A Framework for Managing Data in Multi-actor Fabrication Processes9 citations · 2022