Flying Robots Will Construct Buildings

Dr. Raffaello D’Andrea from ETH Zurich has developed a flying robot for constructing buildings. This robot is able to locate, carry and drop the blocks that forms the structure to be built.

The robot is a quadricopter, which means that it has four propellers to travel. The position control of the robot is achieved through a motion capture system with a group of cameras. This system checks the position of the robot, modifies its trajectory and indicates the robot where to drop the block that is carrying.

A demonstration was made with four of these robots, which built a 1:100 scale model of a building with polystyrene bricks.

Source: LaFlecha