Building structures using flying robots

Building structures using flying robots

As you can see in this post about a toy quadropter the idea of modifying its code to allow autonomous function is perfectly possible. Today there are several teams around the globe working on this kind of applications that could have a major impact in the construction techniques of the future. Now, even the arquitects are going to have to learn some programming skills…

Here you have two examples:

Video taken from the University of Pennsylvania GRASP Labs.

And also:

Which is an installation, called “Flight Assembled Architecture”, that was conceived and built by teams led by Fabio Gramazio & Matthias Kohler as well as Raffaello D’Andrea at the ETH Zurich.

Original article by Jornico