Cable robot builder

2023: Product Announcement

Russia has developed a cable robot capable of printing houses of any size. In October 2023, Alexander Maloletov, deputy head of the NTI Competence Center for Robotics and Mechatronics Component Technologies at Innopolis University, shared some details regarding the new technology.

According to him, the cable robot consists of towers with winches and cables, which are the basis for sliding the printing head. By October 2023, the maximum height of the planned houses is 8 meters, two floors. However, according to the developers, the main advantage of the robot is the ability to scale the construction project.

Russia has developed a cable robot capable of printing at home of any size

Such a robot does not need to be configured for a certain area of ​ ​ the building. Only towers with winches are required, on which cables are fixed at a certain distance. Then the construction mixture is poured into a special container, the parameters are set, and the 3D printing process begins from the remote control.

As noted at Innopolis University, bulky robots with a manipulator or solid structures are already used in the world. Both of them face the problem of limited area.

The cable system of our robot solves such problems. Its use reduces the terms of work and the number of people at the construction site, because a team of workers is no longer required. According to our calculations, a two-story house with an area of ​ ​ 15 by 15 meters will be built by a cable robot in a week, - said Alexander Maloletov.

It is noted that the new robot will help facilitate and speed up the process of building houses by using 3D printing technologies. By mid-October 2023, the planned dates for the start of industrial operation of the robot are not called.^[1]

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