Chapter 221: Sigh

Zhan Xiaogui's family and Wang Yueyue stayed outside the village they left for one night, and the reason why they didn't go to the village was because they were afraid that their appearance would make the residents of the village nervous.

More afraid to break their perfect life.

"I've been out there for so long, how do I see that all I see are machines that walk and work autonomously? Could it be that robots live here? Zhan Xiaogui wondered.

"Wouldn't it? Look at the big windmills, all kinds of thatched huts made of special materials, and all kinds of decorative plants...... It doesn't look like a robot can do it, does it?! At first glance, there is a group of very tasteful people living here! Hahaha, if I'm not mistaken, the men here are particularly handsome and gentlemen, and the girls will be particularly beautiful and virtuous. Zhan Xiaogui's daughter-in-law prophesied.

In the northern corner of the village, there was a constant sound of a machine working.

Zhan Xiaogui, Wang Yueyue and the others tiptoed quietly, almost quietly, and followed the sound to the source of the sound with a very small sound.

After a closer look, they realized that this was the villagers building a house with a house-building machine.

Zhan Xiaogui and Wang Yueyue observed and studied for a long time before determining that this house building machine is not simple, it is roughly divided into two parts: machine masons and steel rebar workers.

Unlike ordinary masons, the "robot mason" can read the 3D design of the house, and if it is a very irregular building, he can also analyze and customize each specially shaped block according to the plan, and then install them perfectly and reliably.

This "robot mason" can be built more efficiently and accurately than humans, and can also cope with a variety of irregular, complex shapes of buildings, making more seemingly whimsical designs possible.

It is not enough to have "masons", the skills they commonly use today to build irregular forms, but also to ensure the construction of strong structures, as well as cast-in-place reinforced concrete.

However, conventional pouring needs to build a template first, not only do not use a large number of templates, but also irregular formwork construction is also a problem. This "robot rebar worker" solves this problem. It can automatically bend, shear, and weld the wire to form a relatively dense wire mesh structure.

This structure replaces the formwork and becomes the mold and skeleton of the cast-in-place concrete. Because it is relatively dense and has tensile mechanical properties, it has both the role of concrete formwork and the role of steel bars in concrete, and the concrete can just leak a little bit from the gap of the steel wire mesh, and then wrap the steel wire mesh in the later surface treatment, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

Simply having robots do the work of laying bricks and braiding steel bars is far from satisfying the needs of the village's people, so why not use this technology to "print" the house when they have achieved 3D printing technology that prints digital models directly into physical objects? So the people of this village have released a super-large 3D printed construction robot.

The robot has a hydraulically actuated robotic arm that can be freely retracted and moved, and can be equipped with solar photovoltaic panels, or can use power or batteries.

It is small in size, can be installed in a variety of different environments and sites, and it is very flexible, the working radius of the robotic arm can reach more than ten meters, and it can be competent for the construction of various complex shapes.

Another benefit of it is that it can automatically print out according to the input 3D model, and does not need to be controlled by humans.

Imagine a worker here hauling the machine to the construction site, installing it in place, then entering the model that needs to be printed today, pressing "start", and you can go home for dinner! When you finish eating and it's getting late, go back and check the results, "Finish the work!" "Well, you don't necessarily need to call it a day, as long as there is electricity, people can still work all night!

To test the machine, people here printed an arch with a diameter of 17 meters and a height of 4 meters in polyurethane foam in just 14 hours.

Liquid polyurethane foam expands and hardens rapidly when sprayed from the front end of the robotic arm, making it a great material for "architectural printing". The walls of the arched structure are printed as a hollow structure, and steel bars and concrete can be added to make it a solid, permanent structure. Even without pouring concrete, the walls already have a certain strength enough to carry an adult standing on them. Polyurethane foam can also play a good role in thermal insulation.

Such a powerful house-building robot will be widely used after the end of the world, will it rob human jobs again? Perhaps most of the houses in our daily lives in the future do not need such robots to build, and the use of conventional construction techniques is sufficient.

There are many limitations to such construction robots in the village, such as the effectiveness of this digital construction platform, which will be affected by the weather. When the air humidity is too high and the condensation is caused, the printing material will fall off due to poor bonding.

Although the scientists who designed this super robot have calculated and come to the conclusion that it is cheaper for robots to build houses.

The advantage of such a construction robot is that, on the one hand, it can realize the accurate and rapid construction of complex and distorted building shapes, and better complete the designer's original design concept.

On the other hand, they can enter some more dangerous or inaccessible areas for construction, as long as there is sun, they can work, and use clean energy, which is beneficial to energy conservation and emission reduction. The scientists who designed it have envisioned several possible scenarios for construction robots to work in the future.

Maybe in the near future, robots will build houses on Mars! My third favorite of these ideas is that it sends us the message that robots can build houses not only for humans, but also for polyps.

I hope that both the designers and users of robots can understand that the purpose of using machines is to help us complete difficult but necessary work, help us reduce the negative impact of human activities on the environment, help us achieve more creative work, let people from different walks of life live more decently and with dignity, protect us from danger, and inspire our humanity and love. If not, I'd rather walk a little slower and take a moment to think about it.

Wang Yueyue looked at these inexplicable robots, and his curiosity quietly activated the electrical attributes, and then the detailed indicators and descriptions of the above-mentioned robots appeared after a brain search. Take a look at the latest chapter of the "Super Supply Box Claw Book House" and read it for free for the first time.