3D printing with drones
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Researchers have mounted 3D printers onto drones with the aim of creating swarms of robots that could 3D print entire buildings.
The aerial vehicles were specially designed to be able to deposit a cement like material with enough precision to build tall structures. Groups of them together could do the job even faster.
The idea is that 3D printed shelters could be greener than standard construction methods, and drones could be useful in reaching difficult to access areas.
Read the full paper here: www.nature.com...
flying or hovering against gravity... costs energy... why not have have legs to save on energy?
Cuz this is way cooler
Due to yo will have a tipical 3d print, also you have limits
I agree. Not everything needs to be flying in the future. Only use would be small repairs but for entire houses this is just way too inefficient.
Exacly, all point exept this one made in this Video sense.
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Except that the obvious: bees and wasps are anchored as they work. Regardless, laudable work indeed. The algorithms they developed and the way they solved those problems are priceless.
what waste of energy ... creating trash via more trash. The bees and wasps are eons of that ...
Both anchored and unanchored are equally impressive! Anchored means the weight must be extremely light, movements extremely delicate. Unanchored is a very difficult alignment problem.
@@2hedz77 also anchored must know how to avoid freshly printed area to not damage them
i agree with this sentiment
I would go a step further, make multiple builder bots that each crawl along the structure while printing and multiple transport drones that ferry the builder bots between the structure and a recharge/refill station.
My pet wild pigeons do just the same thing. Quite a tower builds up below their perching site.
Comment of the day!
Think of the structures that could be printed in DC! Plenty of material available.
My chickens do the same
If it could land to print when conditions allow, that'd save a lot of energy.
Yes, if it was a truck with all the cement and then a printing crane! ^^
@@Bobby.Kristensen It can be better with quadruped robots with a robotic arm for depositing the printing material.
I am 100% positive that is possible, but unsure of whether or not it would actually be more efficient, consider the extra weight it would add just to have that part introduced, and how large scale would it be producing? The whole idea behind these guys are the fact that they can swarm up to quickly build a structure. Imagine you give them pathways to build something circular, they can literally just follow eachother in a loop filling in different segments of the pattern. We already have drone swarm tech so we are about halfway there in that sense.
@@aphilosophicalnaturalist6245 Quadrupedal robots are more complex with a higher rate of failure, plus they add weight, which adds energy consumption and so on
@@guysebastiangarciapomales2341but they're also SIGNIFICANTLY more precise with their movements. Drones can and will never be like that because there are too many attenuating factors, like drag, upthrust, tilt, etc.
Cool job but this seems like the most inefficient way to manufacture something, and it's hard for me to see where this could have real life application
Agreed
yeah theres really no situation where it would be the best solution
Imagine having to replace the battery every X minutes 😂
A swarm could constantly swap out while it keeps printing. Some specialized drones have long power cords so they can keep going.
A lot of energy is being wasted simply to fly around the large mass of the robot and the material to be deposited, so not sure what the comparison was or where those "green" claims are coming from...
Indeed! It sounds like these claims are coming from Crazy Island. "Green" enthousiasts complain when we want to fly on an airplane and tell us to get the train, but then they want to fly cement and other construction materials on a drone instead of using a scaffolding?
It's a cool idea for certain special uses, but "green"? I don't think so...
One day, you need a house, you call the drone of a company that prints houses, it comes and prints your house at your location.
As someone who works with 3D printers daily, it's definitely an interesting idea. If it does develop to the point it can be used in real world applications though, it would be decades in to the future (I would be happy to be proven wrong though!).
imagine swarms of builder drones, yikes!
2-3 decades seems realistic. Can't wait for this, absolutely amazing technology.
doesnt need to be decades away could be used to patch holes on buildings that would usually takes cranes or men with harnesses and stuff to access
@@Kektamusprime not to mention patchwork to prevent water damage until scaffolding and builders would be available to do it "properly". Or even with the right material you could use a swarm of these bots to build an organic scaffolding that could then be "eaten" by the drones and reused later. Setting up scaffolding for large building projects today are both costly and time consuming.
I doubt it will be that far away. Look at the past 10 years lately vs the past 10 before that and so on. Tech industry has been making massive leaps and swarm tech is already in place. All they have to do is multiply these and scale it up slightly.
Really don't even have to scale it up either. Just add more drones and have them perform different parts of the task.
This is a cool idea. It would be a perfect application of Nicholas Rehms Tri-Mode VTOL drone design. While it's hovering and printing it could save a lot of energy.
Yes, but it looks like they have some stability issues already. I don't think having the drone spinning really fast will be worth it because its less controllable. Could be more realistic in the future.
So the drones could print part of the construction...need not do the whole thing...hybrid construction, using a variety of mechanisms.
Not practical, they are just following the trend and I think they are wasting resources
The wasps are not building while flying..
"more environmentally friendly" bruh hovering in the air is like 1/100th as eco-friendly as traditional construction 😂
Seems like a bit of a solution in search of a problem tbh...drones could be used to transport parts for a standing 3D printer, then quickly assembled on site, so that more structurally sound printing can be accomplished. Nevertheless impressive engineering!
Why have only one solution? It's still early in development. I'd say let's continue to pursue many solutions and employ the best fitting. Ironman doesn't have just one suit.
Play doesn't need to offer a solution. This is simply responding to 'What if?' or, more simply, 'D'you reckon we could... ?'.
So I say bravo! Keep playing and see what happens!
@@arcaetype but he builds each suit for a problem.
If you read the paper it was designed for high altitude repairs it also scans in real time for the print quality
@@Dot2TheLock High altitude means both very strong gusts of wind in all directions and thinner air that requires even more power from the drone to just hold its own weight. When I see how hard that thing struggles to hover in the tiny breeze of their lab I can't picture it surviving high altitude conditions.
The scientific and engineering POC is impressive. But the actual use case is pure fantasy.
Looks sketchy now, but the groundwork is being laid. Two papers down the line we'll be seeing some amazing stuff.
Lol no. Huge waste of energy . Good for testing if this is possible but really? And you want it to make it. Cheap right? Using drone to make constructuok greener? Riiiiiight
Energy consumption just to fly plus it will consume more energy carrying/pumping the concrete or whatever material it would use.
They should do with the battery and anchor them with a supported tether that provides both power and cement.
Imagine thousands of drone, flying to a random place, drawing a 3D house and fly back 😷
If you applied solar powered charging stations and local materials, this would be a great opportunity for emergency structures that return to the environment soon after their initial necessity.
1.Emergency fresh water collection
2. Baskets for sorting collected foods
3. Containers for anything
4. Emergency messages
5. Housing/storage structures
6. Irrigation pathways
7. Safe walking/ driving terrain designators
8. Emergency supply hut creators
What an overengeniered project, this will never be effective when we scale things up to en accual size of a house.
Drones can build their own drone hives.
That would be cute to see.
Drones deployed on other worlds may have to do just that for self preservation. This isnt a far fetched concept you've commented on.
It should land and print, like how the wasp do
just one question...wwhyyy???
But this technology was invented by wasp and bees so patent should go to bees
if an invention has no practical application, help and rescue in case of earthquakes floods and forest fires it is lol
Why drone need to fly during print? It can use 4 leg stand while printing.
That’s very cool!
"The biggest problem is accuracy'
I am sorry, what about material weight and efficiency? It's a cool demo, not any future. Nobody gonna use helicopters to build houses!
They might use it in space or something
@@smorrow there is no air in space to push with fans...
@@redo1122 It would be the same algorithms that they developed for this, is what I meant.
Still, they would be quite different, I feel and you can always simulate it somewhat. Maybe it's useful, but I personally doubt it.
Drones can actually get pretty good lift as you move up in price, efficency is the real worry.
I have a feeling they just did this because they got bored one day and got this silly idea
bravo,wha a interesting video-work~ 📽
In 2022 we will have flying cars!
2022: pooping drone
They are playing Factorio with our lives
Cool gimmick, won't go anywhere.
The bugs don't build while flying.
Fun engineering challenge. Stupid objective.
If the goal is to eliminate huge cranes, extensive scaffolding, etc, then just design a lightweight portable articulating boom and put a small printhead on it. Whatever tech you have developed to precisely locate the printhead using the drone can be used to position the tip of the boom.
There is no need to actually fly.
Yeah, but there are different trade-offs for both approaches. These robo bees are definitely less efficient, but more flexible and should be easier to deploy once their autonomy algorithms are perfected. There are many cases in technology where the efficiency and speed are not the winning factors for mass adoption. A quadcopter is not necessarily the most optimal solution for this kind of job, but the basic idea of distributed robot workers make sense and we know it from decades of sci-fi. In the end the best analogy is actually not bees, but... humans.
@@kazioo2 You could have multiple small arms with printheads. They could all be mounted on one articulating boom.
Why not use a swarm to lay bricks?
First 3d printer drone and should be the last too
The work done here is amazing, but looks kinda impractical to do it on earth. Maybe on Mars?
Still, I think this is just technical/intelectual flexing.
Until we have batteries that are orders of magnitude higher capacity this will never be feasible. Having an aerial printer is the less energy efficient way of printing possible. Construction materials are inherently heavy and you have to hold the drone and the material aloft the entire time it is printed. We are talking about hundreds of times more energy consumed to construct the structure. A ground based printer has to be placed on site but it rests on the ground and only has to expend energy to change directions or pump material.
Wasp has been doing what 3d printers does. But 3d printing w/o the lack of support alone was a breakthrough
drones aren't practical whatsoever
they can't carry very much material at a time, they use a lot of battery power to sustain flight with heavy printing materials and other hardware.
this means very frequent stops, slow printing times, and very excessive power consumption
yes
So now every natural things could be modelled some day... possibly un a artificial way
Incredible work!
You can almost feel how this technology will advance. The future is looking incredible
AND the drones could go recharge on their own. So you just put charging stations next to "filament" recharging stations. The drones refuel and recharge, and then resume the printing. And they can build as high as the material strength would allow.
I seriously thought 1:37 was coming from my room! These headphones are too good...
very nice demonstration of the tech ! I love this stuff.
Thought i was the only one g'dam I almost had a heart attack
its nice but completly useless a big truck with a long 3d printing arm would be way better at printing houses
trueeeeeee
sending building drones to africa worst wordt idea every. within 1 minite they are strowing sticks at it and trying to eat the drone
Though it’s easy to have a negative view of this, the technology they develop to make this work well could be very valuable
Why is it easy to have a negative view of this? It seems pretty great to me...
This has been achieved by 2018, here is the link: ua-cam.com/video/GmdlvFH4ntU/v-deo.html
Fascinating - 3D printing surely is the future 🙌
it’s the present though
Hahah factorio be like
This feels wrong......!
Let's combine the latest gimmicks of the 2020's 3D printing AND drones AND get it to run on cryptocurrency. Now we can get houses that look like a stack of shit and take a week to make.
Why not just use wheels/tracks to move the robot's that build our houses around, flight is the less energy efficient way to move robot's around and stay idle in the air, wheel cost zero energy to stay idle. ;)
The issues with the concept are:
- extremely expensive,
- needs special materials (more expensive),
- not reliable (needs absolutely controlled environment),
- inaccurate (even in closed spaces, it drifts a lot),
- sensitive to every details that can't be controlled,
- energetically very demanding, while its effectiveness is very low.
So, you've made an extremely expensive, unreliable, inaccurate and finicky drone that can deliver and place building materials, when it's not raining and there's no wind at all. Congrats, paying four workers for days can cost much less, while their accuracy depends on how you treat them.
Exactly
Considering wasps stand they could make a spider drone with "mandibles" which were 2 extruders, and using small high friction pads and ect to climb while printing, multiple could be used in a hivemind system that would let them be more efficient,more useable in windy environments and even moe when built properly
Good work by scientists, BUT...
What a crazy idea... A building needs tons of filament and drones can't carry much. So they need to fly back and forth to refill. Drone needs suspend its weight, filament and printing head during printing - what a waste of energy. And the NOISE would be awful.
So cameras ana;yzing the progress means closed loop 3d printing!?
This is a technology that should be integrated into conventional FDM printers as well ..
To those talking about energy and efficiency. This is probably not trying to solve a problem or be better than traditional 3d printing. Its a really difficult controls/materials engineering, with a fun solution. Likely its just that. Technology demonstration, where lessons learned can be used else where.
Just because you can, doesn't mean that you should. There are much easier ways to build homes. Also 3D printing is great but has limitations and shouldn't be the answer to everything.
well... considering the drones will be limited by the weight of the material they need to transport anyway, wouldn't it be easier to just have a swarm of drones assemble a house out of per-built blocks like lego?
how about you make a swarm of brick laying drones paired with a few cement spreading drones... sounds much more effective to me...
This is very cool, but it's obviously extremely inefficient and it would be nice if science reporters would consider things before repeating buzzwords. Green marketing at the end of a small helicopter printing concrete is a meme.
Also it won't be able to lift anything heavy, It can barely keep itself up, Where are you going to get the material? For like a house on a hill, you would want a truck to carry the machine and the material. Robot arm, not that thing they built, that's so one purpose.
novel but this looks basically useless. youve combined the energy inefficiencies of flight with the added inefficiencies of slow 3d printing. at most this would be useful for airdropping modern art and at worst someone would send a swarm of these to slowly construct houses only for them to get rained out or blown away.
i get roads can be destroyed, but these things wont have good range and they'd need power, so they need some infrastructure and logistics too. want to know what doesnt require electricity, good weather, and on site logistics? trucks full of tents.
@Master Gator
Drones deployed on other worlds may have to do just that for self preservation. This isnt a far fetched concept you've commented on.
Can't imagine the energy costs. Like a large 3d print is at least an hour plus the plastic or concrete stuff in the video and the hotend
Like why?
Can't you just build robots that does that but with excellent climbing instead of flying, which brings nothing but limitations?
this seems reticuloses
3d printing an emergency shelter seems a lot more difficult than just setting up a tent.
i can't think of one good application of this technology
it just takes so much energy ton fly with barely any benefit
I just had this idea and checked if someone else came up with it...what a surprise 😅
"inspired by bees and wasps" but bees and wasps dont build in flight because its a massive waste of energy. why not add landing legs so it can clamp on to the section its working until its ready to move to the next?
I'm sorry but this is just stupid, and this is the opinion of a 40 year veteran techie.
Printing homes won't be environmentally friendly if the material consists of plastics or other chemicals with links to health problems.
So in the future i can expect to buy a house then see a drone fly over and poop it out? AMAZING!
75 times more energy than teh same printing by conventional method... jsut make a crane, move crane, use some sticks, anything is better than this nonsense
The tech might be useful later on for something else, but printing in the air from a moving structure isn't likely to be useful.
A.I will have a ball with these technologies weaponized drones that self replicate with a AI hive mind 😅
While this technology is interesting, it is not an efficient use of power, so it is unlikely to be economically or environmentally sound.
3d printing with drone Inspired by wasp
Meanwhile wasp build their home while standing/hanging with leg and not while hovering
She sounds like M.A.R.I.L.L.A. from the Minecraft UA-cam channel
Incredible !! Good job👏👏👏
NASA get on it. print us a city inside Olympus Mons before we get there
I need this now! When can I buy this?
Amazing!!! Congratulations 👏👏👏
Bullcrap.
Might just be better to have drones deliver container homes during natural disasters rather than try print one.
Oo
They can use this to print houses more effectively!
Imagine you have a swarm of these things that fly in and each one deposits a layer of quick solidifying material. You could build so fast.
How many trips of reloading media would it take to complete anything?
"aw shit we got a centimeter per hour wind this building is gonna come out sideways"
Now we can use Ingenuity Helicopter to build a house on Mars.
This is probably what mindustry 1.0 was like
Neat, but it seems like they missed part of what the wasp do. They land, then they lay down the material. I feel that it would be more precise if they focused on that. There is a reason they don't hover like hummingbirds to lay down material. It's hard.
Yeah.
I agree, what's the point of flying and doing it? Besides the useless cool trick.
You can't call them "bugs" anymore. They're treasure-trove!
What is the printers has spider legs and could just walk on the existing print and keep printing
*looking at this drones I can see how smart and complicated is the nature*
Amazing. Enormous scope and possibilities. Congratulations to the scientists.