A cement plant in La Robla, Spain needed to repair a 100-metre-tall, 16-metre-diametre concrete silo during an annual maintenance shutdown. The walls of the silo were held together with rebar on the ...

So far, the two robots have 3D-printed a concrete structure measuring 1.86 x 0.46 x 0.13 meters (6.1 x 1.5 x 0.4 ft) – so no, it's not something that you could go inside of.

Robots Optimize Sustainable Concrete Prefabrication. 3mo. By Nidhi DhullReviewed by Susha Cheriyedath, M.Sc.Sep 18 2024. A recent article presented at the Digital Concrete 2024 conference proposed ...

Robots are going to be employed to crawl over nuclear missile silos in the US, automating maintenance that has previously been done manually. Some 400 steel and concrete silos housing Minuteman ...

Untold amounts of concrete cover the planet, and at least six billion cubic yards of it are produced annually. If that’s not alarming enough, most concrete only has a lifespan of 60 to 80 years.

Developed via a partnership between Korean robotics company Itone and construction firm Posco E&C, the device autonomously makes its way across wet concrete surfaces at a speed of up to 10 mph (16 ...