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NASA’s robotic, self-assembling structures could be the next phase of space construction
Bad news if you want to move to the Moon or Mars: housing is a little hard to come by. Fortunately, NASA (as as always) is thinking ahead, and has just
The basic idea of the self-building structure is in a clever synergy between the building material — cuboctahedral frames they call voxels — and the two types of robots that assemble them. You probably wouldn’t want to store rocks on top of a dome made out of these things, but they’d be excellent as a base on which to add insulation and sealant to make a dwelling. “The overall strategy for scalability (of speed, size) is to be able to push the complexity of scale onto algorithms, for planning and scheduling as well as detecting faults and performing repairs.”
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