COBOD Worldwide, in collaboration with Technische Universität Braunschweig, has formally launched the world’s first multifunctional development robotic. Constructed on COBOD’s BOD2 3D development printer, the system integrates a telescopic vertical unit with a robotic arm, enabling Shotcrete 3D Printing (SC3DP). Shotcrete, a spray-based concrete utility, is often utilized in advanced builds like tunnels and retaining partitions—however this new system takes it additional. The breakthrough was unveiled through the grand opening of the Digital Building Web site at TU Braunschweig.
The robotic arm may also be outfitted with sanding instruments, paint sprayers, insulation methods, or perhaps a gripper to put bricks and aerated concrete blocks—remodeling the printer into a real multi-process development robotic.
Professor Harald Kloft, Chair of Structural Design at TU Braunschweig’s Institute for Structural Design (ITE), said: “Our partnership with COBOD is a decisive step in direction of the digital development website of the long run… just like the fabrication of strengthened double curved partitions.”
The system allows automated manufacturing of advanced, strengthened concrete constructions, the place reinforcement may be inserted post-shotcrete or utilized round prefabricated mesh kinds. With a 3-meter vertical vary, the robotic arm can absolutely entry and manipulate constructions under the X-axis.
COBOD founder Henrik Lund-Nielsen famous: “With our new COBOD robotic arm on the finish of the telescopic arm there’s an countless quantity of development duties that our printing system can now automate and expedite to the good thing about our international clients.”
This technique is a part of a broader initiative—“The Digital Building Web site – Building Business 4.0”—led by TU Braunschweig to check how digital instruments reshape real-world development. Prof. Norman Hack added: “The multifunctional system allows us to develop and check totally new ideas… to construct extra effectively, with larger precision and flexibility.”
With area deployment subsequent, COBOD’s robotic development platform marks a step ahead for automation, sustainability, and flexibility in international development.
