Construction robot builds massive stone walls on its own
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2024 1:32 am
Construction robot builds massive stone walls on its own
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https://www.newscientist.com/article/24 ... n-its-own/
A robotic construction vehicle can use 3D digital mapping and AI to learn the best placement for each stone in a wall, without instruction from a human.
A robotic construction vehicle picks and scans each boulder to determine where it fits in a stone wall.
An autonomous robot with a large gripper can transform a pile of boulders into huge stone walls without mortar – learning on its own how to place each irregularly-shaped stone as the next building block.
The robotic excavator has built a stone wall 6 metres high and 65 metres long through a public park on the outskirts of Zurich, Switzerland. It also used a large shovel to autonomously landscape the park’s terrain into terraces.
“This is the first work to apply such a robotic excavator for the large-scale construction of permanent dry stone walls,” says Ryan Luke Johns at ETH Zürich in Switzerland.
Read more here:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/24 ... n-its-own/
A robotic construction vehicle can use 3D digital mapping and AI to learn the best placement for each stone in a wall, without instruction from a human.
A robotic construction vehicle picks and scans each boulder to determine where it fits in a stone wall.
An autonomous robot with a large gripper can transform a pile of boulders into huge stone walls without mortar – learning on its own how to place each irregularly-shaped stone as the next building block.
The robotic excavator has built a stone wall 6 metres high and 65 metres long through a public park on the outskirts of Zurich, Switzerland. It also used a large shovel to autonomously landscape the park’s terrain into terraces.
“This is the first work to apply such a robotic excavator for the large-scale construction of permanent dry stone walls,” says Ryan Luke Johns at ETH Zürich in Switzerland.