Thomas Bock

The research activities of Prof. Dr.-Ing./Univ Tokyo Thomas Bock center since 35 years on robotic construction as design, prefabrication, on site robotics, robotic building maintenance and recycling. His notion of robotic ambience empower elderly for independent life, work and mobility. He studied at the University of Stuttgart, IIT in Chicago and the University of Tokyo. At the CNRS in France he established first European construction robotics commission in Europe.

In 1989 he became professor for automation in construction management at the civil engineering faculty of Karlsruhe University before becoming chair professor for building realization and robotics in 1997 at TU Munich. He is the cofounder and director of IAARC, Asian Habitat Society etc. and advices international ministries and academies. In 2017 he obtained the DFG Seibold award for 35 years pioneering research in construction robotics.

Thomas Bock co/authored about 500 articles in English, French, Japanese, Russian and German and holds various honorary professorships, doctorship, fellowship, visiting and special assigned professorships, is involved in editing several journals “Automation in Construction”, “Innovation in Construction”, “Construction Robotics” etc. and publishes the world wide first book series on “Construction Robotics” with Cambridge University Press since 2015.

Profile on ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/lab/Chair-of-Building-Realisation-and-Robotics-Thomas-Bock

Website of institute: http://www.br2.ar.tum.de