Zurich-based architects and roboticists have created the In-situ Fabricator, an autonomous construction robot capable of laying bricks into pre-programmed structures. Designers at the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) Digital Fabrication laboratory believe a future generation of the robot could be used widely on building sites. — Reuters
According to Mathias Kohler of ETH Zurich, "The benefit from an architectural point of view is that you can really design the construction directly, so you can plan for how it is built instead of designing your plan and then that plan afterwards being converted on the construction site. So it actually changes the paradigm of how you design and build quite fundamentally."
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Didn't Bruce sterling predict this some decades ago? I'm sure it will happen.
Now all they need is a robot to mortar the joints. And another to mix the mortar. And one to haul the sand, cement and water. And one to clean up afterwards.
Idiocy. Unless of course you consider employing less people progress.
MILES obviously you haven't heard of what Sir Skyler Tibits is doing at MIT - self assembling materials. Mortar will mix itself. Sand will move itself to the site. Unused material will clean itself up. Time to wake up to the future old man.
I'm with Miles here, technologists are known to have a very narrow world view, this is yet another example of that.
Mr Wiggin, another fossil...
In civilized cultures elders are shown respect and consideration, not just for the wisdom acquired by a lifetime of often painful experience but also for having survived - among other things - vast hordes of idiots and morons, like some of those that post here.
˙sǝןıɯ 'ɟɟo ʞɔnɟ
As turd in a well further proves the point. Graceless and clueless.
Care to go for the trifecta?
respect is earned, Piles.
you havent earned any.
We have a winner!
As if I yearn for the respect of an anonymous internet F-bomber. LOL
go look at a car assembly from 1950 compared to today.,.all robotic arms working without a break...we will all be replaced by machines...Detroit is just a little peak into our future...Fuck the robots...only a fool would welcome such a technology
The Metro North train crash where the engineer blanked out and the automated braking system didn't - previously there were two engineers required on every train. The automatic safety system allowed them to eliminate an engineer and more important his salary, benefits, and retirement costs.
Since we created the first machine we have been contributing to our own obsolescence...sometimes for the better...like with the cotton gin...but more than often the working class got shafted and the owning class got richer...truth is that corporations wanted machines all along...we were just filling their void while technology caught up...
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