Spider-drone builders

• Autores: Hal Hodson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2942, 2013, pág. 20
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Spider-like, the drone spools cable behind it as it zips between supports. It is weaving a structure high above where ordinary building equipment can easily reach. This is construction as envisioned by roboticists and architects at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich Switzerland. As well as these web-like designs, the team is teaching drones to build towers from foambricks. Flying machines have an unlimited workspace--they can go anywhere, says Federico Augugliaro, who is leading the robotics side of ETH's Aerial Construction project. The ETH researchers are not the only group writing drones into the future of construction. At the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge MA, Neri Oxman and her team are using robots suspended on cables to build structures.