A team of researchers from Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia are working on another solution: A swarm of tiny robots that could cover the construction site of the future, quickly and cheaply building greener buildings of any size. [...]
"The robots can work simultaneously while performing different tasks, and having a fixed size they can create objects of virtually any scale, as far as material properties permit”
— fastcoexist.com
Check out the Minibuilders in action below:
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A swarm of tiny robots that could cover the construction site of the future, quickly and cheaply building greener buildings of any size. [...]
does the word green have to be thrown into everything. next person that loosely throw out the term green is getting punched in the throat. how the hell is a robot greener than a human. last I checked humans run on atp... pretty efficient system.
lol
Just 'cause they are making them out of shit doesn't mean they are "green".
I've yet to see anything beyond very basic monolithic construction from this technology. and you still need someone to put in the rebar in the concrete forms... maybe you'd save some money on formwork... but is this really faster - especially if you're just doing basic boxes? and what about finishing and furnishing curved spaces?
what problem is this technology solving??? someone please tell me why this is better than how we currently do things - I really don't see it.
we are being slowly replaced by workers that don't need lunch breaks. As the trend continues we will likely come to a point where most if not all manual labor is automated. This is a big problem that seems almost inevitable to me.
... or vacation days, sick time, health insurance, retirement benefits, payroll taxes, etc.
Project this forward and contemplate the results.
we need john henry!
We need John Connor.
+++ jla-x
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