Lecturer
Greene Building, Room 304

518-276-4066

Master of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, University of Pennsylvania; Bachelor of Architecture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Riley Studebaker is a lecturer at the RPI School of Architecture where he focuses on robotic labor embedded in the built environment. He holds a Master of Robotics and Autonomous Systems from the University of Pennsylvania and a B. Arch. from the Virginia Tech College of Architecture and Urban Studies. He has taught at the Weitzman School of Design and oversaw development of the Advanced Research and Innovation Robotics Lab. As a Research Associate in the Weitzman Autonomous Manufacturing Lab his work was internationally published, and as a UPenn Praxis Research Fellow he installed the largest robotically hot-wire-cut relief in the world, Deep Relief. In 2022 he co-lead a workshop in ACADiA on gestural robotics named A Molten Gesture, and in 2024 co-lead a workshop at ROB|ARCH 2024 named Robots in the Landscape. Professor Studebaker’s peer-reviewed work has been internationally published in ACADiA, Traits of the Post-Digital Neo-Baroque, and DigitalFutures, as well as featured in The Architect’s Newspaper.

Riley Studebaker is also the co-founder of the educational-robotics solution consultancy EDU Robotics and the founder of MetaOrnate, a bespoke façade supplier scheduled to install the first permanent 3D-printed ceramic façade in the western hemisphere in 2024.