Autonomous Flying Robotic Bees Build Tower in France

[The Straight Story]

Autonomous Flying Robotic Bees Build Tower in France

People sometimes raise their eyebrows at the claim that bricks are green, because of the energy needed to fire them. But they use a lot less energy than they used to, they last almost forever, they are recyclable, they have great thermal mass and are very low maintenance. Unfortunately the craft of bricklaying isn't what is was, and Eladio Dieste or Antonio Gaudi would have trouble finding trades today.

Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler have been doing important work to change all that, developing robots that can lay bricks in ways that would impress Eladio. They even got their portable robot to build a wall in Manhattan two years ago. But robots weren't innovative enough for them; now, with Raffaello D’Andrea, they are building a twenty foot high tower with little robotic helicopter bees.

It is in fact a scale model of a much larger project, a 600 meter high "vertical village".

Just imagine, no more big trucks carrying building materials through the city, just millions of little busy bees carrying materials to the site and assembling a complicated building all by themselves. Just be sure to wear your hardhat when you go outside. More at Dezeen and Gizmag







http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/autonomous-flying-robotic-bees-build-tower-france.html

[Ikonoklast]

1. Time to buy "Getting Hit In The Head With A Falling Brick" Insurance.

Everything has a failure point, everything.

[The Straight Story]

2. We will hear how terrorists will use them and why we need to invade France

:)

[NV Whino]

3. Looks like they have trouble with straight lines

:rofl:

Seriously, check out this movie, which is available on Netflix, for more sustainable designs. I think this is the one that shows buildings built by robots, although it may have been another series I watched. But this one is worth watching anyway.