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Duondolo: when robotic LFAM sets creativity freedom image

Presented at Milan Design Week 2026, Duondolo is a large-scale rocking piece by designer Valentina Bottani — a Politecnico di Milano graduate and collaborator of Osmotica Design. The project reinterprets the swing as a relational object: an invitation to rediscover balance, play, and human connection. To realise it at full scale without compromise, Osmotica turned to Caracol’s Heron AM robotic platform as its technological enabler.Caracol-large-scale-3d-printed-furniture-robotic-manufacturing

Design beyond manufacturing constraints

Bottani’s vision for Duondolo was inherently organic — a continuous sculptural form that moves like a natural gesture. Traditional manufacturing would have imposed hard limits: tooling costs, structural compromises, assembly joints. Caracol’s Heron AM removed those barriers entirely, allowing geometry to be treated as a design variable rather than a production problem.

Curvature, wall thickness, and mass could be shaped freely, without retooling or lead-time penalties. This is the shift robotic AM brings to furniture design: the creative process is no longer constrained by what a machine can handle but driven by what a designer can imagine.Caracol-milan-design-week-3d-printed-installation-creative-industry

Sustainability and custom production at scale

Duondolo was 3D printed in rPETG + 30% glass fibre — a recycled-content engineering polymer that meets the structural demands of a 94 kg piece while reducing reliance on virgin materials.

Beyond sustainability, the project demonstrates the economic viability of small-batch and custom production: no molds, no overproduction, a single unique object manufactured to exact specification in 18 hours. For studios and designers seeking to push formal boundaries while staying true to responsible making, Caracol’s technology makes it possible.

Technical specifications:

  • Technology: Heron AM 300 with HV extruder
  • Material: rPETG + 30% GF
  • Nozzle diameter: 3 mm
  • Print time: 18 hours
  • Dimensions: 2300 × 1050 × 1230 mm
  • Weight: 94 kg

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