Zeke Gamby / Industrial designKauaʻi → Wellington

Matter,in motion.

I use AI and multi-material printing to explore a different way of making robots. Design, print, test, repeat.

Inside the research

Master’s research / Work in progress

PolyJet / Printed fingerExplore a recorded bend

Close-up of a printed finger with dark rigid segments and translucent flexible connections

Real prototype. Recorded movement. Drag the image or use the slider to explore it.

Motion lab / Camera optional

Now it’s your turn.

Move your finger. Watch a digital one follow.

Try the motion lab

The finger prototype connected to a servo on a test rig, alongside earlier prints

On the bench / Current research

Can a robot come
out of a printer?

Hard and soft materials, connected mechanisms, and what physical testing teaches you.

Selected work

01 — 05

Four colourful prosthetic concept renders with customisable charms

01 / Featured project

Limb It Less

A prosthetic concept that puts children’s choices, colour and self-expression at the centre of the design.

Product concept · AI-assisted exploration

View project

Fidget objects and the colour-coded cards used to document them

Idle Motion

Cultural probes, tactile habits and a kinetic sculpture.

A transparent and timber mechanical gripping prototype

Ball Grabber

An exploration of cable-actuated gripping mechanisms.

A circular arrangement of articulated fingers on a tabletop

Wearable / Interactive

Studies in movement, material and light.

A sculpture combining curved patterned fragments and grey connectors

Order in Chaos

Modular structures assembled from repeated fragments.

How I work

The interesting part is
what happens next.

01 / Design

Make a possibility.

Use sketches, CAD and AI to explore what a mechanism could become. Give the idea a physical form worth testing.

02 / Test

Find the limit.

Pull it, bend it, load it. A joint can look right on screen and still tear, resist movement or lose force.

03 / Learn

Change the next one.

Let the result shape the next question. The prototype is a way to learn how the design actually behaves.

About / Approach

I work things out
by making them.

Sketch, model, build, test. My work moves between digital tools and physical prototypes, with each experiment shaping the next.

Originally from Kauaʻi, I’m now based in Wellington, studying for a Master of Design Innovation at Victoria University of Wellington.

Industrial design & CAD
Physical prototyping & mechanisms
Multi-material 3D printing
AI-assisted design exploration