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A construction robot that detects work failures
If you thought that in the next few years we are not going to see a technological revolution in the works, be it construction robots or new software with capabilities unheard of so far, because you were quite wrong. And not because we say so, although we already explained that artificial intelligence in architecture and works will completely change the current vision, but rather because we already have the technology here, and in addition, it works very well and reduces costs substantially!
Track controlled work and also detect errors in real time, while we are building the work, for many it was a utopia and even more so if we are talking about projects with important dimensions. A madness for every architect and surveyor!… Well, the solution is called the Doxel robot, and it yields more than satisfactory results from a technical perspective.
Doxel is a new company that came out of hiding this week with a round of financing of 4.5 million dollars (Covered by MIT as we can see HERE). His business, providing cheaper construction, and his secret - as with so many tech startups - is to combine massive amounts of data with artificial intelligence techniques.
The robot scans the 3D works that are being built autonomously every day, thus monitoring how things progress, tracking what is installed and verifying if it is correct at the right time and in the right place.
It's like the technology we saw in the autonomous construction bulldozer article that works without an operator to dig, but with other functions.
It is not bad at all if we take into account that in large-scale projects this involves a significant loss of technical and human resources verifying the monitoring of the work, not counting the possible failures that are not detected and more if we talk about the facilities.
But… will we really save money on the construction site? Well, the recent study carried out by the company managed to increase labor productivity on the project by a staggering 38%. This sounds very good!
Company reports…. »On one of our projects, our real-time progress tracking led to a 38% increase in productivity and helped the project deliver 11% under budget»
The idea is to focus mainly on what is happening inside a construction site, since that is where most of the complicated and important things happen and where the productivity savings are significant: you do not have to go back later and fix problems that only they are noticed weeks later, when those problems have caused other problems.
Once the work is closed in the evening - night, the little robot autonomously tracks and scans all the work and progress carried out during the day (It can scan about 30,000 square meters in the course of a week).
There, the artificial intelligence goes to work marking any element that is not correct and that deviates from the work plans and the project so that the next day, we can easily verify them.
A software that connects to the BIM project and analyzes all the planimetry, facilities and distribution indicated in the autocad plans to offer instant information on how the work is and if there are errors with the project.
Remember to see the seven augmented reality applications for works and decoration, which are amazing!
After the trace is complete, send all the data to the cloud. There, artificial intelligence goes to work marking any element that is not correct and that deviates from the construction plans and the project. The next day, we can check if something unusual has happened or errors found easily.
Although we may be obsessed with robots, it is really about interpreting the data they collect, and robots are simply the most efficient and cost-effective way to do it.
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