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Mix the waste-free efficiency of additive manufacturing with the automated teamwork of swarm robotics, and you get a sense of what Fiberbots is trying to accomplish in the building industry. The latest project released from MITās Mediated Matter Group, founded and directed by designer Neri Oxman, aggregates 16 architectural-scale, freestanding, fiber-reinforced composite (FRC) tubes built in tandem by an army of autonomous robots.
The resulting 4.5-meter-tall (15-foot-tall) installation calls to mind other human-scale additive manufacturing effortsāsuch as NASAās 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge and myriad 3D printed housesāand swarm robotics that are tackling construction efforts such as bricklaying.
The Mediated Matter Group itself is no stranger to the use of robotics. In 2013, the panelized armature of its landmark Silk Pavilion was deftly woven by a robotic arm. That frame became the structure for the webs of thread that was output by 6,500 silkworms, which, along with termites, were Mother Natureāsupplied inspirations for the ārobotic chimeric silkmiteā the group seeks in Fiberbots.
https://www.architectmagazine.com/t...arm-robotics-merge-in-neri-oxmans-fiberbots_o
Still have a ways to go.
The resulting 4.5-meter-tall (15-foot-tall) installation calls to mind other human-scale additive manufacturing effortsāsuch as NASAās 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge and myriad 3D printed housesāand swarm robotics that are tackling construction efforts such as bricklaying.
The Mediated Matter Group itself is no stranger to the use of robotics. In 2013, the panelized armature of its landmark Silk Pavilion was deftly woven by a robotic arm. That frame became the structure for the webs of thread that was output by 6,500 silkworms, which, along with termites, were Mother Natureāsupplied inspirations for the ārobotic chimeric silkmiteā the group seeks in Fiberbots.
https://www.architectmagazine.com/t...arm-robotics-merge-in-neri-oxmans-fiberbots_o
Still have a ways to go.