Category: construction

Researchers create bone-inspired 3D-printed building materials

Post author By Randall
Post date December 6, 2019
Categories In 3d Printing, architecture, bio-inspired, biomimicry, bone, buildings, case western reserve university, construction, cornell university, Design, durable, material, purdue university, study, Tech, tomorrow

[ad_1] “Bone is a building,” says Purdue University professor Pablo Zavattieri. “It has these columns that carry most of the load and beams connecting the columns. We can learn from these materials to create more robust 3D-printed materials for buildings and other structures.” The researchers discovered that the “beams” in bones provide more stiffness and […]

BILL-E is a cute robot that builds structures block by block

Post author By Randall
Post date October 16, 2019
Categories In bill-e, construction, engineering, mit, robotics, Robots, Science, Tech, tomorrow

[ad_1] The team calls their creation BILL-E, short for Bipedal Isotropic Lattice Locomoting Explorer — and, yes, it’s named after WALL-E. Each one looks like a small arm, with a hinge at the middle that gives the robot its signature inchworm-like gait. At both ends of the arm, BILL-E features tools for clamping down on […]