Development 3D printing specialist COBOD Worldwide has developed what it refers to because the “first commercially out there multifunctional development robotic”. Engineered in cooperation with Technical College of Braunschweig’s Institute for Structural Design (ITE), the robotic system is able to each depositing layers of concrete in-situ utilizing COBOD’s gantry-based system and Shotcrete 3D printing due to the mixing of a telescopic unit with robotic arm. This added performance facilitates the printing of extra complicated constructions, together with these with overhangs, like tunnels, in addition to to print retaining partitions and to strengthen concrete.
The multifunctional system is predicated on COBOD’s BOD2 3D printer and integrates a vertical telescopic unit that it mounted on the gantry configuration between two X axes. As we mentioned, this telescopic extension will be fitted with a Shotcrete device, which sprays concrete materials utilizing a high-pressure system, however can be fitted with different forms of instruments for a variety of functionalities, together with spray portray, insulation software, sanding and extra. Different doable functionalities embrace mounting a gripper to put in aerated concrete blocks, bricks and different pre-fab constructing supplies. The telescopic unit reportedly has a vertical vary of three meters and might extra freely to cowl a big space.
The development 3D printing answer was not too long ago unveiled on the opening of the Digital Development Web site at TU Braunschweig, the place quite a lot of visitors had been capable of see the expertise first hand. Henrik Lund-Nielsen, GM and Founding father of COBOD Worldwide, mentioned on the occasion: “For years we’ve had the imaginative and prescient of creating multifunctional development robots on the idea of our 3D development printers. Seeing the primary materialization of our imaginative and prescient right here makes me very proud. With this new expertise we provide automation of many extra development processes than simply printing of concrete partitions. With our new COBOD robotic arm on the finish of the telescopic arm there may be an infinite quantity of development duties that our printing system can now automate and expedite to the advantage of our world prospects.”
TU Braunschweig’s Digital Development Web site is concerned with exploring how digital manufacturing processes can rework planning and constructing on actual development tasks. The initiative, which brings collectively groups from the the Institutes of Structural Design, Development Engineering and Administration, Geodesy and Photogrammetry and Constructing Supplies, Concrete Development and Hearth Security, sees automation as the important thing to creating development extra environment friendly and inexpensive sooner or later. It’s by way of this framework that the multifunctional BOD2 system with Shotcrete functionality shall be examined in real-world constructing tasks.
“Our partnership with COBOD is a decisive step in direction of the digital development website of the long run,” added Professor Harald Kloft, from ITE. “3D printing permits automated, digitally managed processes of easy in addition to very complicated duties, just like the fabrication of bolstered double curved partitions. The power to make complicated, individualized, materials environment friendly and low waste development options makes 3D printing ideally suited for the development business, because it brings collectively financial, environmental and social points, such because the discount of bodily stress.”
