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Autonomous Quadrocopters Build 20-Foot Tower

December 5, 2011 / autonomous, building things, i am giong to hulk smash right through that thing and then pee on the remains, i thought we were cool switzerland!, making things, no no no, nobody told you to build that!, not cool, quadrocopters, robots, so not cash, switzerland, the apocaypse nears, they can build their own shelters -- move the doomsday clock up a minute, tower, uh-oh

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In news that can only be described as bad, a group of autonomous quadrocopters at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have successfully built a 20-foot tower out of foam blocks. *adding Switzerland to shit list* Neutral my ass! But seriously, I want you to think about this for a second: autonomous robots are building things on their own. Do you know how hard it is to build something? One year I tried to build a birdhouse but the roof caved in and killed a family of cardinals. Kidding, there was no roof because I accidentally glued it to my leg. My point is this: robots are building things and BUILDING things is much harder than DESTROYING things. You do the math. "12 x 12 = 124" Okaaaaaaay, one more guess but this time time use your phone's calculator.

Hit the jump for some brick-laying in action.

Quadrotors Build a Building [technabob]

Thanks to bruce, HackTheGibson and Juan-xo, who've already started building trebuchets.

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There are Comments
  • Justice Law

    So the robots like building small scale replicas of the Roman Colosseum (a taller one) eh? Well, I build a 2 foot scale replica of a real hill using dirt and saliva. Who's better now!?

  • MightyMolecule

    ...always wondered what the inside of the black mesa research facility looked like...

  • Jeffrey Hardy

    ok they can build it but what happens when we try to take it down?

  • In a years time an article will read "a colony of quadrocopters build a 200ft tower out of human skulls"
    Will these guys ever learn!?
    Robots will kill us all!

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