Property News · May 16, 2018

Robot makes ‘intelligent’ bricks that could reduce air conditioner usage – Hong Kong university lab’s breakthrough


If robots can lay bricks, one of the oldest building materials used by humans, why can’t they also make bricks?

That was architect Christian Lange’s reaction 12 years ago when he saw a robot bricklayer developed by Swiss architects Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler, founders of the first architectural robotic laboratory at ETH Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland.

And it was a thought that laid the groundwork for a robotics laboratory at…

Source : South China Morning Post
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