Overall, across Europe and the US, stuff is still built in a pretty manual fashion - not very different to the way it would have been built 100 years ago [...] Construction is a bit of a digital laggard compared with many other industries. It's been slow to adopt digital in the widest sense — BBC
Consultant Sam O’Gorman and other experts speak to the BBC about the confounding gap between digital technology and the analog process for delivering residential architecture. Interesting projects mentioned are the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center’s attempts to develop the world’s largest 3D printer and the UK firm Automated Architecture (or AUAR)’s plan to create a network of ‘micro-factories’ capable of producing pre-assembled six-story timber design for just £250,000 ($320,000 USD) using robots.
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Why do we continue to allow such a ridiculous line of questioning? Why do we think using robots (which require extremely heavy up front programming and costs) are somehow going to save a problem that has yet to develop a universally acceptable fully systematized solution? I can't help but feel this article is the equivalent of looking at a concrete block and wondering why we can't get it to float. Can we have an intelligent conversation about this? There is much that can be done, but sadly it's not going to be a flashy robot or some one-size fits all gimick.
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