was first unveiled to the general public at IdeaCity in 2006. It is part of the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada (NGC). D’Andrea and Swiss architects Gramazio & Kohler created Flight Assembled Architecture, the first architectural installation assembled by flying robots. It took place at the FRAC Centre Orléans in France in 2011-2012. The installation consists of 1,500 modules put into place by a multitude of quadrotor helicopters. Within the build, an architectural vision of a 600-metre high "vertical village" for 30,000 inhabitants unfolds as a model in 1:100 scale. It is in the permanent collection of the FRAC Centre. Awards and honors 2020 National Academy of Engineering Member 2020 National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductee 2016 IEEE Robotics and Automation Award 2015 Engelberger Robotics Award 2008 IEEE/IFR Invention and Entrepreneurship Award 2002 Presidential Early Career Award References External links Home Page Electronics engineers Living people 1967 births Cornell University faculty