3D printers will print the first bridge in Amsterdam

If when you find yourself walking through one of the streets that line the canals of Amsterdam you will see a strange mixture of robot and printer building a bridge in the same way that a spider makes its web, do not be scared, and do not blame what you consumed in the last coffee shop, you are simply facing a novel attempt to print the first bridge in 3D.

3D printers will print the first bridge in Amsterdam

The Dutch have developed a robot that is also a 3D printer, with the aim of "printing" in Amsterdam a pedestrian bridge over a canal, using steel as raw material.This project is carried out by a self-appointed team MX3D , which has used all the existing information around three-dimensional printer technology to develop an innovative model that could be used in infrastructure construction.

The more or less traditional modus operandi of 3D printers works as if you were making a cake, placing horizontal slices; those of MX3D, on the other hand, work attached to a robotic arm and welding equipment, and build the object in vertical layers.

The project of this company is to test its technology to print the first bridge steel pedestrian on one of the canals of Amsterdam; for this, two robots would be used that will build, or "segregating", the bridge from each shore, until joining: the robot-printers will build their own support and make the structure of the bridge until they are in the middle.

3D printers will print the first bridge in Amsterdam

Although laboratory tests have been successful, this would be the first time that such technology is put to the test in open space, subject to changing and sometimes hostile weather conditions.

In the MX3D web portal you can read:

«3D prints like this are still an unexplored territory and lead to a new language in ways that are not joined by additive layers.This method makes it possible to create 3D objects in almost any size and shape ».

If this project were successful, the consequences for the future of construction would be extraordinary and perhaps somewhat disturbing, because an important area of construction work could disappear: that of the workers who beat concrete and adjust beams, replaced by large robotic cranes, capable of making larger bridges or of building skyscrapers, without the risk of losing lives.

Behind that small pedestrian bridge in a beautiful city in the Netherlands, a revolutionary and perhaps disturbing future for the world of construction could be glimpsed, don't you think? In this same line, we recommend that you read about the Japanese hotel attended by robots.Y if you are interested in this technology, visit MX3D on Facebook.

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