Gravis Robotics is built upon strong foundations in academic research, and we are delighted to see this outstanding work featured in Science Robotics! This massive stone wall and landscape were built in 2021, and were among the first built works to make use of our rooftop autonomy kit for excavators.
Autonomous excavator constructs a six-metre-high dry-stone wall 🪨 🤖 Researchers at ETH Zurich have taught an autonomous excavator to build dry-stone walls using boulders weighing several tonnes and demolition rubble. In brief ◼︎ Until today, dry stone wall construction has involved vast amounts of manual labour. ◼︎ A multidisciplinary team of ETH Zurich researchers developed a method of using an autonomous excavator to construct a dry-stone wall that is six metres high and sixty-five metres long. ◼︎ Dry stone walls are resource efficient as they use locally sourced materials, such as concrete slabs that are low in embodied energy. ► Article: https://lnkd.in/e6p7gjK6 Article by: Michael Walther Girts Apskalns Gramazio Kohler Research NCCR Digital Fabrication Mark Schneider EBERHARD AG
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11moI can watch this again and again. Talk about real world robotics!