▲ | Animats 5 days ago | |||||||||||||
There's a video of the robotic building woodworking system for building components.[1] (This article is from their VC firm.) The video is so bad that, if weren't from ABB, a legit robotics company, it would clearly be a scam. They never show the robot at work for more than 1-2 seconds at a time. It's not clear how much of the job it does. The video is about 90% filler - quick cuts, talking heads, scenery. It's not even clear what they're making. All they show is a robot moving some wood around. Assembling building panels with robots in factories with has been done, but it takes a bigger factory, because what's being made is large.[2] That's a legit video showing the whole process of making housing panels. | ||||||||||||||
▲ | contingencies 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||
I visited Re:frame Systems[1] in Boston last month and it was pretty cool to see their system which was apparently primarily comprised of a series of magnetic stops on an angled work-surface tended by a giant robotic arm. Cut to length lumber would be fed in on batched trolleys and the arm would compensate for non-square lumber while pinning individual pieces in place then finally nailgun them together in to a completed structural frame. These frames then moved flatpack-style to a second site in the factory for assembly then manual fit-out. I was quite surprised at how slow the arm was, but it didn't really matter because a human would likely take longer by the time they went up a ladder a few times, had a break, and took time off for weather interruptions. They had a pretty impressive team drawing experience from most of the larger US robotics applications and were moving from single level to double level housing, with more elaborate structures planned in future. | ||||||||||||||
▲ | ricardobeat 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||
Another of the companies mentioned, Facit, has a lot more videos and information about their build process: | ||||||||||||||
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