The Vulcan 3D printed home construction system is comprised of the Vulcan printer and the Magma portable mixing unit that prepares ICON’s proprietary building material, Lavacrete, for printing. All of this hardware is driven by the BuildOS software suite. BuildOS generates and prepares architecture for printing, then controls the robotic hardware on-site to turn digital …
Here is the NASA Moon-to Mars Planetary Autonomous Construction Technologies (MMPACT) Overview. NASA’s goal is to develop, deliver, and demonstrate on-demand capabilities to protect astronauts and create infrastructure on the lunar surface via construction of landing pads, habitats, shelters, roadways, and blast shields using lunar regolith-based materials. ICON Build is the primary commercial developer of …
3D printing has been unlocking new ways to solve bespoke issues for a long time now. One of the more interesting developments isn’t only what it can make, but what materials it can print. More recently, concrete has been quickly developing as a 3D printing material, and many believe it may revolutionize the construction industry. …
Ultra-high performance concrete mixes cost $360-650 per cubic yard and have compressive strength from 22,500 PSI to 29000 PSI. There are proprietary makers of stronger concrete with costs of $2000 per cubic yard. There have been test blocks of concrete with strengths of 60000 PSI. Regular concrete is usually at 3000-5000 PSI compressive strength. The …
China’s Natural Science Foundation of China has outlined a five-year $2.3 million project to study building over kilometer size objects in orbit. Kilometer-scale, ultra-large spacecraft are major strategic aerospace equipment for the future use of space resources and colonization. They will study minimizing the weight of the spacecraft and space structures to reduce the number …
Boring Company has dug the Vegas Convention Center Tunnel. LVCC Loop will connect the LVCC New Exhibit Hall with the existing campus (North/Central/South Halls). Three stations locations will offer convenient access between key LVCC destinations and nearby transportation connections. Typical walk time between the New Exhibit Hall to the existing North/Central Hall can take up …
Elon Musk believes the Tesla solar roof with solar built into the tiles gives houses a superior appearance. If you’re selling your home, adding curb appeal can increase your home value 3% – 5% according to Consumer Reports. If the market values a Tesla solar roof for enhancing curb appeal then this would add $30,000-50,000 …
NASA has awarded a $142 million contract to Maxar Technologies of Westminster, Colorado,to robotically assemble a communications antenna and manufacture a spacecraft beam in orbit. The technology demonstration is slated to take place on NASA’s Restore-L spacecraft, designed to service and refuel a satellite in low-Earth orbit. Above – The Space Infrastructure Dexterous Robot (SPIDER) …
By altering the very premise upon which all prior telescopes rely, The High Étendue Multiple Object Spectrographic Telescope (THE MOST) overcomes all of these problems: aperture, collection area, field-of-view, spectrographic performance, and compact size. Startling, THE MOST does it at lowered cost they proved in their NIAC Phase I. They proved that THE MOST could …
Elon has tweeted that Boring Company starts digging Vegas tunnel in 2 months. They aiming to finish by end of 2019. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority approved a $48.6 million contract with the Boring Company, Elon Musk’s tunneling venture. The Boring Company’s underground people mover, the LVCC Loop, will consist of two tunnels …
Andrew Anagnost is the President and CEO, Autodesk.He discusses using AI to improve construction and many other jobs and industries. Automation and Imagination: Designing a World for 10 Billion People. Andrew sees other industries catching up to the automation that has existed in manufacturing. He sees the automation of the construction site as being one …