Flying Robots Build a 6-Meter Tower
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Uploaded by ZeitNews on Jan 4, 2012
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Yesterday night the first installation to be built by flying machines opened its doors to the public. An hour or so after the Opening, after most of the crowd had gone to drink champagne in the building next door, I snuck upstairs and recorded a few short clips of the quadrocopters.
The installation, called "Flight Assembled Architecture", was conceived and built by teams led by my colleagues Fabio Gramazio & Matthias Kohler as well as Raffaello D'Andrea at the ETH Zurich. It illustrates a radically new way of thinking about materializing architecture: Use a multitude of mobile flying agents working in parallel and acting together as a scalable production means. As you can see in the video, the quadrocopters are programmed to interact, lift, transport and assemble small modules in order to erect a building.
The tower is actually a 1:100 model of a "vertical village" with a height of 600 meters and housing 30'000 inhabitants. To learn more about the technology (control architecture, collision avoidance and freeway based flight, prick placement, safety systems, etc.) and architectural aspects (geographic location, transit times, access plans, structural and wind tunnel analysis, etc.), have a look at http://www.idsc.ethz.ch/Research_DAndrea/fmec
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Holly Mother! Nice work Guys ;]
Ikandej89 3 weeks ago 2
@frakistan This is done by code, obviously. Look at the curves of that tower, no human could do that smooth a structure by just remote-control.
HannuMarijarvi 3 weeks ago
LOL masons, you're all fired!
agormanvideos 1 month ago
1:100 eh? Can't wait to see the quadrocoptors at full scale! :)
Tigerdragon2 1 month ago
Sky net!
sonnysince1984 1 month ago
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WHOMAN2HUMAN 1 month ago
are they dong this pre programmed or by remote control? remote control is not a biggie but if this is done by code than....... SKYNET FTW
frakistan 1 month ago
thats pretty impressive...
willem01 1 month ago
trust me, i'm an engineer
plombak 1 month ago
Skynet will be taking over soon..Where are you John Connor?
GlobeMullensk8 1 month ago