Class Follow-Up–Some recent articles

 

3D Building Planned

Here’s an article claiming that a first 3D-printed building will be put up in 2014.  It uses the solidified-sand technique we saw in class.  How practicle does it look to you, and why does he need that technique.

 

Thanks to Rita Pauliushchyk’s blog post here’s a company with a competing concrete technology.  Which look’s more promising to you?

 

Driverless Cars

This article from Rocky Mountain Institute discusses the variety of approaches to driverless cars currently being considered.  How many of these do you think would be applicable at a construction site?

Different Sensors

Here’s an article claiming that a “metamaterial” can fucntion as a camera – working at microwave frequencies.  It might help with collision avoidance.

And here’s an article on the sociological vector asking what will be the effect of all these sensors?

Robotics

Here’s an article about a possible early-adopter of the Baxter technology of readily-trained, safe robotics.