Architectural robotics : ecosystems of bits bytes and biology The relationship of humans to computers can no longer be represented as one person in a chair and one computer on a desk. Today computing finds its way into our pockets our cars our appliances; it is ubiquitous an inescapable part of our everyday lives. Computing is even expanding beyond our devices; sensors microcontrollers and actuators are increasingly embedded into the built environment. In Architectural Robotics Keith Evan Green looks toward the next frontier in computing: interactive partly intelligent meticulously designed physical environments. Green examines how these architectural robotic systems will support and augment us at work school and home as we roam interconnect and age. Green tells the stories of three projects from his research lab that exemplify the reconfigurable distributed and transfigurable environments of architectural robotics. The Animated Work Environment is a robotic work environment of shape shifting physical space that responds dynamically to the working life of the people within it; home+ is a suite of networked distributed robotic furnishings integrated into existing domestic and healthcare environments; and LIT ROOM offers a simulated environment in which the physical space of a room merges with the imaginary space of a book becoming a portal to elsewhere. How far beyond workstations furniture and rooms can the environments of architectural robotics stretch Green imagines scaled up neighborhoods villages and metropolises composed of physical bits digital bytes living things and their hybrids. Not global but local architectural robotics grounds computing in a capacious cyber physical home Publishers website