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Jens Pedersen is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of architecture, digital fabrication, and human-robot collaboration. His work fundamentally reimagines how we communicate with construction robots, shifting from complex code to intuitive, hand-drawn instructions. Pedersen’s key contributions center on developing visual communication protocols that allow architects and builders to guide robotic fabrication through simple sketches and augmented reality symbols. His seminal 2020 paper, “Augmented drawn construction symbols,” with 17 citations, introduces a method for ad hoc robotic fabrication that directly addresses the construction industry’s decades-long productivity stagnation by replacing expensive manual labor with accessible automation. Building on this, his 2021 work on calibrating hand-drawn methods for on-site robotic fabrication (15 citations) further refines this visual language. Pedersen’s research also extends to computational design workflows for funicular structures and innovative timber framing techniques. By democratizing robotic control, his work empowers designers without programming expertise, promising a future where construction is more adaptive, efficient, and creatively driven. His “Robotic drawing communication protocol” establishes a semantic framework that could revolutionize on-site building practices.