ETH Zurich researchers have created an innovative construction robot that shoots clay to build structures, ditching 3D printer resin entirely. This fast robotic printing process for earth-based materials, also known as impact printing, basically has a robot shooting material from above, gradually building a wall.
The parts bond together on impact, and minimal additives are required. Unlike 3D printers that use concrete, this process doesn’t require any pauses during which the material can solidify. A recent test used a mixture of excavated materials, silt, and clay, shot downwards at speed of up to 32.8-feet-per-second.
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In parallel, we are developing a digital design and construction strategy for realizing these structures utilizing state-of-the-art methods in computational design and sensing to enable a breakthrough at the full building scale,” said the researchers.
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