Prefab Towers Built By Flying Robots: Fact Or Fiction? - EarthTechling

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Prefab Towers Built By Flying Robots: Fact Or Fiction?
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For the last few years, Gramazio & Kohler has been working with robotics firm Raffaello D'Andrea on a system that could one day use “quadcopter” drones to lift prefab modules into a new skyscrapers, saving on money, labor, materials and time.


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[Mike]

This is amazing, but I assume any quadcopters big enough to build full scale buildings would have to be gas powered and would have to be pretty damn powerful!

http://raffaello.name/dynamic-works/flight-assembled-architecture