From 26 February to 1 March 2024, we celebrated our first Robotic Integration Hackathon at ACCIONA’s Construction, Technology, and Innovation Division’s facilities in Madrid, Spain. Colleagues from different partner organisations involved in our work on Construction Robotics and Human-Robot Collaboration tested and integrated some of the construction technologies we are developing, which we’ll use in our pilot projects.
It was the first time we integrated some of the HumanTech technologies developed by our partners over the past few months into single systems. On the one hand, a mobile robotic platform (from Baubot) to help construction workers build walls by handing over bricks. On the other, a robotic arm to fill concrete joints with elastic material (teleportation and autonomous operation by TECNALIA and SINTEF).
“Robots will be an everyday coworker on construction sites, and we are paving the way for them in HumanTech”, says Gabor Sziebig, research manager in robotics and automation at SINTEF and leader of our work on construction robotics and human-robot collaboration.
It was truly exciting to see our technologies in action and a great example of how we are building the future of construction.
Big thanks to our colleagues at ACCIONA and Anurag Bansal for welcoming and hosting us, and to Gabor Sziebig and SINTEF for their efforts in organising this key event, which is a really exciting milestone for our project.
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HumanTech Hackathon: Gabor Sziebig on the benefits of our technologies in construction
