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Ideally you want a small robot that climbs the wall it builds with a crane follower being fed by brick fetching robots on the ground. If it was done properly yo
by OrganicMSG 9y ago
Ideally you want a small robot that climbs the wall it builds with a crane follower being fed by brick fetching robots on the ground. If it was done properly you could fit it all on a flatbed and have it cheap enough to be bought by standard building crews.
- Bartweiss 9y agoIt did cross my mind that the one guaranteed "work surface" present when building a wall is the wall itself. I'm curious how the weight situation would work out, though. On one hand, fresh mortar can clearly support several new layers of brick as a wall is laid. On the other, common estimates suggest a 24 hour wait to reach 60% of final strength. How light would an on-wall robot have to be to work at a steady pace without disrupting the still-drying brick? The other question, I suppose, is whether the brick-supplying robot makes that redundant. It's either going to need a scaffolding or a cart/flatbed that moves frequently to keep feeding target that moves back and forth, and if you need a ground-supported robot arm right near the wall it might just be easier to do everything that way?
- OrganicMSG 9y agoI was thinking that the crane robot would run along the wall behind the laying robot and fetch bricks from robot hovercraft that move pallets of bricks.
- neuromancer2701 9y agoYeah, some of these first gen robots seem very stuck in old industrial equipment paradigm. A single Massive lumbering slow robots vs multiple smaller agile robots working together with modern software(e.g. ML/AL). There is no technical reason why the end user couldn't map out corners and turns in a CAD program. I think it is a physical limitation because the Bot is so large.