Except that the obvious: bees and wasps are anchored as they work. Regardless, laudable work indeed. The algorithms they developed and the way they solved those problems are priceless.
Both anchored and unanchored are equally impressive! Anchored means the weight must be extremely light, movements extremely delicate. Unanchored is a very difficult alignment problem.
I would go a step further, make multiple builder bots that each crawl along the structure while printing and multiple transport drones that ferry the builder bots between the structure and a recharge/refill station.
@@gabesilva4481 ⚠️ God has said in the Quran: 🔵 { O mankind, worship your Lord, who created you and those before you, that you may become righteous - ( 2:21 ) 🔴 [He] who made for you the earth a bed [spread out] and the sky a ceiling and sent down from the sky, rain and brought forth thereby fruits as provision for you. So do not attribute to Allah equals while you know [that there is nothing similar to Him]. ( 2:22 ) 🔵 And if you are in doubt about what We have sent down upon Our Servant [Muhammad], then produce a surah the like thereof and call upon your witnesses other than Allah, if you should be truthful. ( 2:23 ) 🔴 But if you do not - and you will never be able to - then fear the Fire, whose fuel is men and stones, prepared for the disbelievers.( 2:24 ) 🔵 And give good tidings to those who believe and do righteous deeds that they will have gardens [in Paradise] beneath which rivers flow. Whenever they are provided with a provision of fruit therefrom, they will say, "This is what we were provided with before." And it is given to them in likeness. And they will have therein purified spouses, and they will abide therein eternally. ( 2:25 ) ⚠️ Quran
I am 100% positive that is possible, but unsure of whether or not it would actually be more efficient, consider the extra weight it would add just to have that part introduced, and how large scale would it be producing? The whole idea behind these guys are the fact that they can swarm up to quickly build a structure. Imagine you give them pathways to build something circular, they can literally just follow eachother in a loop filling in different segments of the pattern. We already have drone swarm tech so we are about halfway there in that sense.
@@aphilosophicalnaturalist6245 Quadrupedal robots are more complex with a higher rate of failure, plus they add weight, which adds energy consumption and so on
@@guysebastiangarciapomales2341but they're also SIGNIFICANTLY more precise with their movements. Drones can and will never be like that because there are too many attenuating factors, like drag, upthrust, tilt, etc.
As someone who works with 3D printers daily, it's definitely an interesting idea. If it does develop to the point it can be used in real world applications though, it would be decades in to the future (I would be happy to be proven wrong though!).
@@Kektamusprime not to mention patchwork to prevent water damage until scaffolding and builders would be available to do it "properly". Or even with the right material you could use a swarm of these bots to build an organic scaffolding that could then be "eaten" by the drones and reused later. Setting up scaffolding for large building projects today are both costly and time consuming.
I doubt it will be that far away. Look at the past 10 years lately vs the past 10 before that and so on. Tech industry has been making massive leaps and swarm tech is already in place. All they have to do is multiply these and scale it up slightly. Really don't even have to scale it up either. Just add more drones and have them perform different parts of the task.
If you applied solar powered charging stations and local materials, this would be a great opportunity for emergency structures that return to the environment soon after their initial necessity. 1.Emergency fresh water collection 2. Baskets for sorting collected foods 3. Containers for anything 4. Emergency messages 5. Housing/storage structures 6. Irrigation pathways 7. Safe walking/ driving terrain designators 8. Emergency supply hut creators
This is a cool idea. It would be a perfect application of Nicholas Rehms Tri-Mode VTOL drone design. While it's hovering and printing it could save a lot of energy.
Yes, but it looks like they have some stability issues already. I don't think having the drone spinning really fast will be worth it because its less controllable. Could be more realistic in the future.
A lot of energy is being wasted simply to fly around the large mass of the robot and the material to be deposited, so not sure what the comparison was or where those "green" claims are coming from...
Indeed! It sounds like these claims are coming from Crazy Island. "Green" enthousiasts complain when we want to fly on an airplane and tell us to get the train, but then they want to fly cement and other construction materials on a drone instead of using a scaffolding? It's a cool idea for certain special uses, but "green"? I don't think so...
AND the drones could go recharge on their own. So you just put charging stations next to "filament" recharging stations. The drones refuel and recharge, and then resume the printing. And they can build as high as the material strength would allow.
Considering wasps stand they could make a spider drone with "mandibles" which were 2 extruders, and using small high friction pads and ect to climb while printing, multiple could be used in a hivemind system that would let them be more efficient,more useable in windy environments and even moe when built properly
If the goal is to eliminate huge cranes, extensive scaffolding, etc, then just design a lightweight portable articulating boom and put a small printhead on it. Whatever tech you have developed to precisely locate the printhead using the drone can be used to position the tip of the boom. There is no need to actually fly.
Yeah, but there are different trade-offs for both approaches. These robo bees are definitely less efficient, but more flexible and should be easier to deploy once their autonomy algorithms are perfected. There are many cases in technology where the efficiency and speed are not the winning factors for mass adoption. A quadcopter is not necessarily the most optimal solution for this kind of job, but the basic idea of distributed robot workers make sense and we know it from decades of sci-fi. In the end the best analogy is actually not bees, but... humans.
Seems like a bit of a solution in search of a problem tbh...drones could be used to transport parts for a standing 3D printer, then quickly assembled on site, so that more structurally sound printing can be accomplished. Nevertheless impressive engineering!
Why have only one solution? It's still early in development. I'd say let's continue to pursue many solutions and employ the best fitting. Ironman doesn't have just one suit.
Play doesn't need to offer a solution. This is simply responding to 'What if?' or, more simply, 'D'you reckon we could... ?'. So I say bravo! Keep playing and see what happens!
@@Dot2TheLock High altitude means both very strong gusts of wind in all directions and thinner air that requires even more power from the drone to just hold its own weight. When I see how hard that thing struggles to hover in the tiny breeze of their lab I can't picture it surviving high altitude conditions. The scientific and engineering POC is impressive. But the actual use case is pure fantasy.
I made a 3D printer drone design some time ago and realized that in order for it to be efficient majority of what's needed to print can not be part of the drone and every part needs its own power source for it to be light.
Really cool idea! It would take quite a few drones to actually print something significant in a reasonable amount of time and there would have to be no wind in order to be accurate. But this thing could bring printing to another level in the future!
To those talking about energy and efficiency. This is probably not trying to solve a problem or be better than traditional 3d printing. Its a really difficult controls/materials engineering, with a fun solution. Likely its just that. Technology demonstration, where lessons learned can be used else where.
Cool job but this seems like the most inefficient way to manufacture something, and it's hard for me to see where this could have real life application
You should combine helium filled dirigibles, with multiple gyroscopes (propeller blades with weights on ends of blades propagating in multiple planes to steady them further.) Possibly use on drone to do printing while other drones can deliver printing materials might work too.
I think this would be more practice on a portable boom crane. This way it’s anchored on a vehicle (which can then hold tonnes of material), can use the crane for distance and height, and is still stabilised.
In the future, when an avalanche has destroyed your nice chalet, you simply wait for a swarm of angry robot hornets to poop a windowless "shelter" for you... seems like the adequate insult to go with your injury.
@Kotori no shogai I teach technology and manufacturing at a rather decent college in the EUC. Every technology that's in desperate need of a "problem" always, *always* will be linked to some form of disaster relief or some real/perceived threat to humankind. When an avalanche wipes out a village, concrete-pooping drones won't be used for many reasons: freezing temperatures and concrete don't mix, concrete is the least suitable building material when weight is an issue and your "temporary" village will require heavy machinery to remove it when you are done using it. Disaster relief will always use light & collapsible structures like tents, or prefab houses (think of Ishinomaki Lab here). I don't question the tech shown here - I have an issue with "nature video's" mindless babbling. ... but there is ONE reason that will kill your pooped-concrete-in-the-cold concept: thermal insulation. Concrete needs insulation in most regions of the world and that will interfere with the drying of the concrete, extending the time until the structure can be used - not what you want in disaster relief...
Until we have batteries that are orders of magnitude higher capacity this will never be feasible. Having an aerial printer is the less energy efficient way of printing possible. Construction materials are inherently heavy and you have to hold the drone and the material aloft the entire time it is printed. We are talking about hundreds of times more energy consumed to construct the structure. A ground based printer has to be placed on site but it rests on the ground and only has to expend energy to change directions or pump material.
"The biggest problem is accuracy' I am sorry, what about material weight and efficiency? It's a cool demo, not any future. Nobody gonna use helicopters to build houses!
Neat, but it seems like they missed part of what the wasp do. They land, then they lay down the material. I feel that it would be more precise if they focused on that. There is a reason they don't hover like hummingbirds to lay down material. It's hard.
Wouldn't it be better to just fly in and land with really tall legs. And then build? Could be a small team of 4 of them that work together to create one large structure. Then a drone flies in supplies.
yo, 3d printing on a stable frame is hard!, how did they even think of doing this on a flying & functioning UAV!?, even the thought is out of this world, full credit 🙌🙌
"inspired by bees and wasps" but bees and wasps dont build in flight because its a massive waste of energy. why not add landing legs so it can clamp on to the section its working until its ready to move to the next?
Except that the obvious: bees and wasps are anchored as they work. Regardless, laudable work indeed. The algorithms they developed and the way they solved those problems are priceless.
what waste of energy ... creating trash via more trash. The bees and wasps are eons of that ...
Both anchored and unanchored are equally impressive! Anchored means the weight must be extremely light, movements extremely delicate. Unanchored is a very difficult alignment problem.
@@2hedz77 also anchored must know how to avoid freshly printed area to not damage them
i agree with this sentiment
I would go a step further, make multiple builder bots that each crawl along the structure while printing and multiple transport drones that ferry the builder bots between the structure and a recharge/refill station.
flying or hovering against gravity... costs energy... why not have have legs to save on energy?
Cuz this is way cooler
Due to yo will have a tipical 3d print, also you have limits
I agree. Not everything needs to be flying in the future. Only use would be small repairs but for entire houses this is just way too inefficient.
Exacly, all point exept this one made in this Video sense.
@@gabesilva4481 ⚠️ God has said in the Quran:
🔵 { O mankind, worship your Lord, who created you and those before you, that you may become righteous - ( 2:21 )
🔴 [He] who made for you the earth a bed [spread out] and the sky a ceiling and sent down from the sky, rain and brought forth thereby fruits as provision for you. So do not attribute to Allah equals while you know [that there is nothing similar to Him]. ( 2:22 )
🔵 And if you are in doubt about what We have sent down upon Our Servant [Muhammad], then produce a surah the like thereof and call upon your witnesses other than Allah, if you should be truthful. ( 2:23 )
🔴 But if you do not - and you will never be able to - then fear the Fire, whose fuel is men and stones, prepared for the disbelievers.( 2:24 )
🔵 And give good tidings to those who believe and do righteous deeds that they will have gardens [in Paradise] beneath which rivers flow. Whenever they are provided with a provision of fruit therefrom, they will say, "This is what we were provided with before." And it is given to them in likeness. And they will have therein purified spouses, and they will abide therein eternally. ( 2:25 )
⚠️ Quran
My pet wild pigeons do just the same thing. Quite a tower builds up below their perching site.
Comment of the day!
Think of the structures that could be printed in DC! Plenty of material available.
My chickens do the same
If it could land to print when conditions allow, that'd save a lot of energy.
Yes, if it was a truck with all the cement and then a printing crane! ^^
@@Bobby.Kristensen It can be better with quadruped robots with a robotic arm for depositing the printing material.
I am 100% positive that is possible, but unsure of whether or not it would actually be more efficient, consider the extra weight it would add just to have that part introduced, and how large scale would it be producing? The whole idea behind these guys are the fact that they can swarm up to quickly build a structure. Imagine you give them pathways to build something circular, they can literally just follow eachother in a loop filling in different segments of the pattern. We already have drone swarm tech so we are about halfway there in that sense.
@@aphilosophicalnaturalist6245 Quadrupedal robots are more complex with a higher rate of failure, plus they add weight, which adds energy consumption and so on
@@guysebastiangarciapomales2341but they're also SIGNIFICANTLY more precise with their movements. Drones can and will never be like that because there are too many attenuating factors, like drag, upthrust, tilt, etc.
As someone who works with 3D printers daily, it's definitely an interesting idea. If it does develop to the point it can be used in real world applications though, it would be decades in to the future (I would be happy to be proven wrong though!).
imagine swarms of builder drones, yikes!
2-3 decades seems realistic. Can't wait for this, absolutely amazing technology.
doesnt need to be decades away could be used to patch holes on buildings that would usually takes cranes or men with harnesses and stuff to access
@@Kektamusprime not to mention patchwork to prevent water damage until scaffolding and builders would be available to do it "properly". Or even with the right material you could use a swarm of these bots to build an organic scaffolding that could then be "eaten" by the drones and reused later. Setting up scaffolding for large building projects today are both costly and time consuming.
I doubt it will be that far away. Look at the past 10 years lately vs the past 10 before that and so on. Tech industry has been making massive leaps and swarm tech is already in place. All they have to do is multiply these and scale it up slightly.
Really don't even have to scale it up either. Just add more drones and have them perform different parts of the task.
If you applied solar powered charging stations and local materials, this would be a great opportunity for emergency structures that return to the environment soon after their initial necessity.
1.Emergency fresh water collection
2. Baskets for sorting collected foods
3. Containers for anything
4. Emergency messages
5. Housing/storage structures
6. Irrigation pathways
7. Safe walking/ driving terrain designators
8. Emergency supply hut creators
One day, you need a house, you call the drone of a company that prints houses, it comes and prints your house at your location.
They should do with the battery and anchor them with a supported tether that provides both power and cement.
Looks sketchy now, but the groundwork is being laid. Two papers down the line we'll be seeing some amazing stuff.
This is a cool idea. It would be a perfect application of Nicholas Rehms Tri-Mode VTOL drone design. While it's hovering and printing it could save a lot of energy.
Yes, but it looks like they have some stability issues already. I don't think having the drone spinning really fast will be worth it because its less controllable. Could be more realistic in the future.
A lot of energy is being wasted simply to fly around the large mass of the robot and the material to be deposited, so not sure what the comparison was or where those "green" claims are coming from...
Indeed! It sounds like these claims are coming from Crazy Island. "Green" enthousiasts complain when we want to fly on an airplane and tell us to get the train, but then they want to fly cement and other construction materials on a drone instead of using a scaffolding?
It's a cool idea for certain special uses, but "green"? I don't think so...
Imagine having to replace the battery every X minutes 😂
A swarm could constantly swap out while it keeps printing. Some specialized drones have long power cords so they can keep going.
I have a feeling they just did this because they got bored one day and got this silly idea
I seriously thought 1:37 was coming from my room! These headphones are too good...
very nice demonstration of the tech ! I love this stuff.
Thought i was the only one g'dam I almost had a heart attack
AND the drones could go recharge on their own. So you just put charging stations next to "filament" recharging stations. The drones refuel and recharge, and then resume the printing. And they can build as high as the material strength would allow.
Considering wasps stand they could make a spider drone with "mandibles" which were 2 extruders, and using small high friction pads and ect to climb while printing, multiple could be used in a hivemind system that would let them be more efficient,more useable in windy environments and even moe when built properly
If the goal is to eliminate huge cranes, extensive scaffolding, etc, then just design a lightweight portable articulating boom and put a small printhead on it. Whatever tech you have developed to precisely locate the printhead using the drone can be used to position the tip of the boom.
There is no need to actually fly.
Yeah, but there are different trade-offs for both approaches. These robo bees are definitely less efficient, but more flexible and should be easier to deploy once their autonomy algorithms are perfected. There are many cases in technology where the efficiency and speed are not the winning factors for mass adoption. A quadcopter is not necessarily the most optimal solution for this kind of job, but the basic idea of distributed robot workers make sense and we know it from decades of sci-fi. In the end the best analogy is actually not bees, but... humans.
@@kazioo2 You could have multiple small arms with printheads. They could all be mounted on one articulating boom.
Drones can build their own drone hives.
That would be cute to see.
Drones deployed on other worlds may have to do just that for self preservation. This isnt a far fetched concept you've commented on.
Though it’s easy to have a negative view of this, the technology they develop to make this work well could be very valuable
Why is it easy to have a negative view of this? It seems pretty great to me...
Imagine you have a swarm of these things that fly in and each one deposits a layer of quick solidifying material. You could build so fast.
Seems like a bit of a solution in search of a problem tbh...drones could be used to transport parts for a standing 3D printer, then quickly assembled on site, so that more structurally sound printing can be accomplished. Nevertheless impressive engineering!
Why have only one solution? It's still early in development. I'd say let's continue to pursue many solutions and employ the best fitting. Ironman doesn't have just one suit.
Play doesn't need to offer a solution. This is simply responding to 'What if?' or, more simply, 'D'you reckon we could... ?'.
So I say bravo! Keep playing and see what happens!
@@arcaetype but he builds each suit for a problem.
If you read the paper it was designed for high altitude repairs it also scans in real time for the print quality
@@Dot2TheLock High altitude means both very strong gusts of wind in all directions and thinner air that requires even more power from the drone to just hold its own weight. When I see how hard that thing struggles to hover in the tiny breeze of their lab I can't picture it surviving high altitude conditions.
The scientific and engineering POC is impressive. But the actual use case is pure fantasy.
I made a 3D printer drone design some time ago and realized that in order for it to be efficient majority of what's needed to print can not be part of the drone and every part needs its own power source for it to be light.
*looking at this drones I can see how smart and complicated is the nature*
Really cool idea! It would take quite a few drones to actually print something significant in a reasonable amount of time and there would have to be no wind in order to be accurate. But this thing could bring printing to another level in the future!
Imagine thousands of drone, flying to a random place, drawing a 3D house and fly back 😷
First 3d printer drone and should be the last too
thought of this back in 2019 and depression holds me back AGAIN... Good job.
Amazing. Enormous scope and possibilities. Congratulations to the scientists.
You can almost feel how this technology will advance. The future is looking incredible
This is super interesting! I'm geeking out.
Even though they can only carry small amount of material, having more drones and working 24h does make this really interesting.
You can't call them "bugs" anymore. They're treasure-trove!
To those talking about energy and efficiency. This is probably not trying to solve a problem or be better than traditional 3d printing. Its a really difficult controls/materials engineering, with a fun solution. Likely its just that. Technology demonstration, where lessons learned can be used else where.
Cool job but this seems like the most inefficient way to manufacture something, and it's hard for me to see where this could have real life application
Agreed
yeah theres really no situation where it would be the best solution
Incredible work!
They are playing Factorio with our lives
You should combine helium filled dirigibles, with multiple gyroscopes (propeller blades with weights on ends of blades propagating in multiple planes to steady them further.) Possibly use on drone to do printing while other drones can deliver printing materials might work too.
I think this would be more practice on a portable boom crane. This way it’s anchored on a vehicle (which can then hold tonnes of material), can use the crane for distance and height, and is still stabilised.
Human ingenuity is sometimes amazing, but it's only a glimpse of the nature. 👍
The wasps are not building while flying..
It should land and print, like how the wasp do
This is probably what mindustry 1.0 was like
This is great I also had the same idea and experiments back in 2016 but I'm glad someone else made it a reality
That’s very cool!
Fascinating - 3D printing surely is the future 🙌
it’s the present though
In the future, when an avalanche has destroyed your nice chalet, you simply wait for a swarm of angry robot hornets to poop a windowless "shelter" for you... seems like the adequate insult to go with your injury.
@Kotori no shogai I teach technology and manufacturing at a rather decent college in the EUC. Every technology that's in desperate need of a "problem" always, *always* will be linked to some form of disaster relief or some real/perceived threat to humankind. When an avalanche wipes out a village, concrete-pooping drones won't be used for many reasons: freezing temperatures and concrete don't mix, concrete is the least suitable building material when weight is an issue and your "temporary" village will require heavy machinery to remove it when you are done using it. Disaster relief will always use light & collapsible structures like tents, or prefab houses (think of Ishinomaki Lab here). I don't question the tech shown here - I have an issue with "nature video's" mindless babbling. ... but there is ONE reason that will kill your pooped-concrete-in-the-cold concept: thermal insulation. Concrete needs insulation in most regions of the world and that will interfere with the drying of the concrete, extending the time until the structure can be used - not what you want in disaster relief...
But this technology was invented by wasp and bees so patent should go to bees
So in the future i can expect to buy a house then see a drone fly over and poop it out? AMAZING!
Now we can use Ingenuity Helicopter to build a house on Mars.
Imagine your in danger and a drone flys in and bilds a shelter
They can use this to print houses more effectively!
Why drone need to fly during print? It can use 4 leg stand while printing.
Wasp has been doing what 3d printers does. But 3d printing w/o the lack of support alone was a breakthrough
"more environmentally friendly" bruh hovering in the air is like 1/100th as eco-friendly as traditional construction 😂
Until we have batteries that are orders of magnitude higher capacity this will never be feasible. Having an aerial printer is the less energy efficient way of printing possible. Construction materials are inherently heavy and you have to hold the drone and the material aloft the entire time it is printed. We are talking about hundreds of times more energy consumed to construct the structure. A ground based printer has to be placed on site but it rests on the ground and only has to expend energy to change directions or pump material.
We're finally reaching factorio levels of drone automation
"The biggest problem is accuracy'
I am sorry, what about material weight and efficiency? It's a cool demo, not any future. Nobody gonna use helicopters to build houses!
They might use it in space or something
@@smorrow there is no air in space to push with fans...
@@redo1122 It would be the same algorithms that they developed for this, is what I meant.
Still, they would be quite different, I feel and you can always simulate it somewhat. Maybe it's useful, but I personally doubt it.
Drones can actually get pretty good lift as you move up in price, efficency is the real worry.
Why not use a swarm to lay bricks?
I just had this idea and checked if someone else came up with it...what a surprise 😅
just one question...wwhyyy???
This is the future of homes and space elevator.
So the drones could print part of the construction...need not do the whole thing...hybrid construction, using a variety of mechanisms.
Love it! Learned some interesting stuff in this vid
Neat, but it seems like they missed part of what the wasp do. They land, then they lay down the material. I feel that it would be more precise if they focused on that. There is a reason they don't hover like hummingbirds to lay down material. It's hard.
Yeah.
I agree, what's the point of flying and doing it? Besides the useless cool trick.
if an invention has no practical application, help and rescue in case of earthquakes floods and forest fires it is lol
it should print with a foam like filament to carry less liquid
The bugs don't build while flying.
How could you be inspired by wasps and hornets and miss EVERY SINGLE THING that makes the process work.
Great Milestone !
Wind: Allow me to introduce myself
great idea. Congrats to the team
In 2022 we will have flying cars!
2022: pooping drone
Incredible !! Good job👏👏👏
Wouldn't it be better to just fly in and land with really tall legs. And then build? Could be a small team of 4 of them that work together to create one large structure. Then a drone flies in supplies.
its nice but completly useless a big truck with a long 3d printing arm would be way better at printing houses
trueeeeeee
unlimited foot print, Genius
How many trips of reloading media would it take to complete anything?
3D print looks good ;,D
Impressive control
yo, 3d printing on a stable frame is hard!, how did they even think of doing this on a flying & functioning UAV!?, even the thought is out of this world, full credit 🙌🙌
Sort of inefficient, but very interesting
Factorio construction robots in a nutshell:
Amazing!!! Congratulations 👏👏👏
There are presently 14 comments to this video and I can see a grand total of 3 of them. The censorship on this site is BEYOND out of control.
This is not at all what I meant but you know what I'm here for it
I need this now! When can I buy this?
woooooooah - next level! will definitely be useful in future!
Cool idea, one problem.
Wind.
bravo,wha a interesting video-work~ 📽
@Master Gator
Drones deployed on other worlds may have to do just that for self preservation. This isnt a far fetched concept you've commented on.
This is how things will be made . Perhaps ships?
very nice job . use your freedom in science and technology ...good for you
Did they not notice the bees and wasps *land* before they deposit their spit?
"aw shit we got a centimeter per hour wind this building is gonna come out sideways"
Cool gimmick, won't go anywhere.
this would be a good ideas for mars
"inspired by bees and wasps" but bees and wasps dont build in flight because its a massive waste of energy. why not add landing legs so it can clamp on to the section its working until its ready to move to the next?
Let’s see which way the wind blows…
So now every natural things could be modelled some day... possibly un a artificial way
Neat, built in cooling.