New Space and Tech

Using Small Flying Droids To Build Large Structures

By Keith Cowing
April 8, 2013
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Flight Assembled Architecture/Architectures volantes from FRAC Centre on Vimeo.

Flying Machine Enabled Construction, ETH

Keith’s note: One would think that the software developed by this team could be adapted to robots operating in space to assemble large structures such as solar power satellites or on the surface of the Moon to construct a lunar base. Indeed, you could take 3D printing software and scale it up such that you use remotely operated droids to “print out” a base on the moon using local materials.

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