Construction with Quadrotor Teams
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN uses it as a go-to example of drones and robotics doing construction work.
What it is
A short GRASP Lab (University of Pennsylvania) demo in which teams of quadrotors autonomously assemble tower-like cubic structures from modular parts. The drones are given the target structure and work out the assembly plan themselves.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2011 to 2018.
What Hacker News said
Cites andrewcooke · 2011-01 · on “Watch a swarm of flying robotic drones construct a tiny building”
Actually, you may be more right than you know (sorry). I've found this quote: "We tell the quadrotors what structure to build and they figure out the assembly plan and then build it." [this video] It still doesn't look very swarm-like to me (more like some kind of planner algorithm; I know the quote implies a distributed intelligence, but look at the way they queue always in exactly the same place, do laps, etc etc), but that certainly sounds more promising.
Cites reustle · 2015-07 · on “On Full-Stack Startups”
This format is painful to read, so I'm copying the content here. This is a series of tweets by [LINK] -- If you are using software to go after a legacy physical vertical, we are most excited if you do it "full stack" [0]. With @counsyl, we found that one cannot live by bioinformatics alone. So built a full clinical lab + software + national salesforce. Here is a video of our robotic genome factory: Also: insurance coverage, clearances, clinical integration... [1] The reason to do full stack is that it's hard to replace just one layer of an outdated legacy stack. CAC & integration costs can kill. For example, consider "restaurant powered by technology" vs "tech for restaurants". With code, re
Cites 0x8BADF00D · 2018-08 · on “Young people don’t want construction jobs”
Some construction jobs are better than others. In SF, for example, there are many undersea construction jobs that pay very well. The CTO of Coinbase envisions that construction[0] as an industry is ripe for disruption, reaping the fruits of technology like VR controllable drones[1]. If you make construction like a video game, “young people” will flock to it. [0] [LINK] [1] [this video]