{"id":176614,"date":"2023-11-23T16:22:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T22:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/autonomous-excavator-constructs-a-6-meter-high-dry-stone-wall"},"modified":"2023-11-23T16:22:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T22:22:47","slug":"autonomous-excavator-constructs-a-6-meter-high-dry-stone-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/autonomous-excavator-constructs-a-6-meter-high-dry-stone-wall","title":{"rendered":"Autonomous excavator constructs a 6-meter-high dry-stone wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2J6FypG6rSc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>ETH Zurich researchers deployed an autonomous excavator, called HEAP, to build a 6-meter-high and 65-meter-long dry-stone wall. The wall is embedded in a digitally planned and autonomously excavated landscape and park.<\/p>\n<p>The team of researchers included Gramazio Kohler Research, the Robotics Systems Lab, Vision for Robotics Lab, and the Chair of Landscape Architecture. They developed this innovative design application as part of the National Center of Competence in Research for Digital Fabrication (NCCR dfab). Their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/scirobotics.abp9758\">work<\/a> has been described in Science Robotics.<\/p>\n<p>Using sensors, the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/excavator\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">excavator<\/a> can autonomously draw a 3D map of the construction site and localize existing <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/building+blocks\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">building blocks<\/a> and stones for the wall\u2019s construction. Specifically designed tools and machine <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/vision\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">vision<\/a> approaches enable the excavator to scan and grab large stones in its immediate environment. It can also register their approximate weight as well as their center of gravity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ETH Zurich researchers deployed an autonomous excavator, called HEAP, to build a 6-meter-high and 65-meter-long dry-stone wall. The wall is embedded in a digitally planned and autonomously excavated landscape and park. The team of researchers included Gramazio Kohler Research, the Robotics Systems Lab, Vision for Robotics Lab, and the Chair of Landscape Architecture. They developed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}