Automating building construction

October 8, 2024

With the continually pressing demand for residential buildings, this innovation developed by Jiansong Zhang will be indispensable for an efficient and accurate construction process. We all want secure, soundly built homes, and the automation feature and algorithm components of this technology will aide in ensuring that goal to be met.

Erinn Frank

Licensing Associate

summary

There has been a 120% increase in the demand for residential buildings in the last 30 years. Purdue researchers have developed robotic system to automate building construction, even in harsh construction environments.

PROBLEM

There has been a 120% increase in the demand for residential buildings in the last 30 years, leading to demand for an efficient and timely construction system.

SOLUTION

Researchers at Purdue University have developed a robotic system to help automate building construction. It features sensors that attach to surfaces on a building and provide information to a software program. Algorithms provide instructions to a robot arm that places and fastens construction materials for roofing, sheathing and wall paneling applications.