Charlotte Robot quickly builds with 3D printing houses

Baur robots have been around for a while and automating challenging tasks on construction sites. The new child in this block is called Charlotte and is an autonomous to build a house of 200 square meters on a single day-and run around 100 moors.

Charlotte is the result of a collaboration between Australian engineering start robotics and Earthbuilt technology, which has developed a local, environmentally friendly shell building material made of sand, waste glass and crushed bricks.

Instead of individual tasks that are involved in complex structures such as the tying of reinforcement strengths and the compilation of wooden panels, Charlotte uses an extrusion system to print the compressed compressed structure in successive layers – to move along and to rise on the spider legs. All of this happens in a machine in a single process.

The bot is still being developed and has probably been a reduced prototype from the construction of its first apartment-but rather years. The companies behind Charlotte have ambitions that it will not only be worked in the building houses in a few years in the future, but also moon bases for Lunar research in the future. They find that its versatile and compact organic-inspired design in connection with its autonomous operating functions make it ideal for use on the moon.

While Charlotte's design currently only seems to support simple designs, the main benefit will require the challenges of work restrictions and delays in the construction projects. Both make it difficult to tackle the lack of housing in many countries. The 3D printed structures that they create are flood-resistant and fireproof, and the process is far faster and cheaper than when it was conventional building methods. If the ingredients for the earth material from the region are, this can also reduce CO2 footprint.

Of course, such solutions are not suitable for all markets, climate zones and customer preferences. But for the millions of people who wear the main burden of apartment deficits and the global accommodation for housing components, this sounds like a promising approach to partially address these problems.

Source: Crest Robotics