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Digital Construction Platform Robot 3D Prints A Building
I love this cool Digital Construction Platform! It's essentially a robot that can 3D print an entire building.
(MIT Media Lab Digital Construction Platform video)
Contemporary construction techniques are slow, labor-intensive, dangerous, expensive, and constrained to primarily rectilinear forms, often resulting in homogenous structures built using materials sourced from centralized factories.To begin to address these issues, we present the Digital Construction Platform (DCP), an automated construction system capable of customized on-site fabrication of architectural-scale structures using real-time environmental data for process control.
The system consists of a compound arm system composed of hydraulic and electric robotic arms carried on a tracked mobile platform. An additive manufacturing technique for constructing insulated formwork with gradient properties from dynamic mixing was developed and implemented with the DCP.
As a case study, a 14.6-m-diameter, 3.7-m-tall open dome formwork structure was successfully additively manufactured on site with a fabrication time under 13.5 hours. The DCP system was characterized and evaluated in comparison with traditional construction techniques and existing large-scale digital construction research projects. Benefits in safety, quality, customization, speed, cost, and functionality were identified and reported upon.
Early exploratory steps toward self-sufficiency—including photovoltaic charging and the sourcing and use of local materials—are discussed along with proposed future applications for autonomous construction.
(Watch Robot 3D-Print An Entire Building)
Fans of Charles Sheffield, a UK physicist and sf writer, may recall the remarkable Spider construction robot that extruded building materials and built things all on its own.
Via Toward site-specific and self-sufficient robotic fabrication on architectural scales.
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