What if you could have a structure that was built brick by brick by flying robots? Well, the Swiss Federated Institute of Technology in Zurich made that rather Skynet-esque picture a reality recently when they showed their system for the Flying Machine Enabled Construction.
The video below shows several quadrocopter-based flying robots picking up and stacking bricks to form a circular structure. It is almost like a ballet as the robots work in tandem to stack the 866 bricks.
Is this the future of construction? While it might take a bit longer for the technology to be met with materials that are conducive to this type of building, it is easy to see how well it could work. In the future, a swarm of flying robots could erect a building close to you. Now that would be fascinating to watch.
Additional Video Showing Greater Robot Detail
via techi
Quadrocopter
A quadrotor, also called a quadrotor helicopter or quadrocopter, is an aircraft that is lifted and propelled by four rotors. Quadrotors are classified as rotorcraft, as opposed to fixed-wing aircraft, because their lift is derived from four rotors. Unlike most helicopters, quadrotors use fixed-pitch blades, whose rotor pitch does not vary as the blades rotate; control of vehicle motion is achieved by varying the relative speed of each rotor to change the thrust and torque produced by each.
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