The sixteenth through twenty-first floors of your high-end commercial office building are leaking water into conference rooms, offices, and workstations, and your tenants are not pleased. You need to ...

As we learned earlier this year, researchers at ETH Zürich's institute for Dynamic Systems and Control are looking at ways in which flying construction robots can be programmed to autonomously build ...

Are unmanned aerial vehicles the future of flimsy rope bridges spun out over deep and terrifying chasms? I am happy to report that the answer is “probably.” Quartz reports that researchers from the ...

Swiss researchers have released footage of two drones constructing a 7-meter-long (23-foot-long) rope bridge strong enough to support the weight of a human. The construction of the bridge was ...

Earlier this year, we wrote about a project to 3D print a bridge in Amsterdam. Said printer will move along a set of (self-printed) tracks, leaving a fully formed bridge in its wake. Now, machine ...

If you look up, you might see a building inspector rappelling down your favorite skyscraper. Increasingly, inspection by rope, which involves an inspector dangling off the side of a building on the ...

Swiss researchers have released footage of two drones constructing a 7-meter (23 feet) rope bridge strong enough to support the weight of a human. The construction of the bridge was conducted without ...