Designing for Humanoids and Advanced Technologies

With over 70 robotics projects delivered in 2025 alone, our expertise has had the opportunity to evolve right along with the technology itself.

These are not traditional workplaces. Many are designed for human-robotic interaction—custom environments that allow developers to observe performance, test, and teach robots to accomplish tasks and meet challenges. Large reconfigurable warehouse-type spaces designed with specific objectives that put robots through their paces (navigation, climbing, lifting, sorting, making, working with machinery, etc.) are common. Staged real-world settings, commercial and residential, are both learning and proving grounds. As reliability facilities, these workplaces may include product operations and robot manufacturing/assembly lines.

Design considerations for advanced technology and manufacturing may also encompass sufficient facility power supplies, the responsible use and storage of hazardous materials, building height clearance for gantry or other mobile craning solutions, and shared but defined separate circulation corridors for humans and technology products. Designs are affected by the robots themselves, providing for modification and recharging as well as the storage of robot batteries and serviceable parts.

We are creating functional spaces and R&D labs for demands and agendas never before envisioned. These drive unique programming and rapidly evolving design decisions that can change profoundly before or during a buildout (sometimes requiring a significant pivot, extensive demolition, and a rebuild) to keep pace with the speed and momentum of client innovation and ensure future adaptability.

To design these prototype spaces, we use AI as a strategic design tool, supporting human expertise with additional insight, iteration, and spatial intelligence. Our approach integrates AI in the service of environments increasingly shaped by “AI brains” as we work with robotics and the technology of intelligent systems across industries, workplaces, and public realms.