Not exact matches
The
robot has a
built - in HD camera to monitor the
house or keep an eye on pets, and speakers to react to voice commands or play music, among much more.
Fastbrick Robotics will put its prototype truck - mounted bricklaying
robot into the field to
build 11 residential
houses under a collaboration agreement with Perth - based builder Archistruct Builders & Designers.
The Sidewalk Labs proposal in the competitive bid for the project floated all kinds of technological dreams: a thermal energy grid that would be carbon neutral, sensors that separate waste from recycling, modular
buildings that convert from retail to
housing, monitors that track noise and pollution, self - driving transit shuttles, shared - ride taxibots, adaptive traffic lights, delivery
robots, heated bike paths and sidewalks that melt snow on their own.
No doubt we will continue to have
robots designed specifically to
build cars on automated assembly lines, erect
buildings with minimal human assistance (see «The Whole -
House Machine,» page 60), or even jog across the front lawn to pick up ournewspaper.
The Drug Discovery
Building will
house high throughput screening
robots, nuclear magnetic resonance instruments, and biology and chemistry laboratories.
The applications for 3D printing in space are endless and could drive space exploration by allowing on - demand manufacturing of objects like tools and habitats needed for human missions,
housing and laboratories could be
built by
robots using printed
building blocks that take advantage of available soils and minerals and astronauts on long - duration space missions also could print and recycle tools as they are needed, saving mass, volume and resources.