ROBÓTICA EN LA CONSTRUCCIÓN Y ARQUITECTURA, EXPERIENCIAS LOCALES EN CHILE

Abstract

As Rafael Cárdenas García mentions, since man began to produce objects, two main manufacturing methods have been used: subtraction and molding. The first technologies were subtractive because man took a piece of stone or wood and cut the excess material to give it a sharp shape. In this sense, the drill, the lathe and the milling machine are subtractive technologies because basically they do the same thing: they cut the excess parts so that the desired shape remains. Great sculptors like Michelangelo used to say that “the statue is already inside the block of marble; You just have to release it." Molding technologies came later, although they have been used by men at least since the Bronze Age, when humans began using stone molds to create spearheads and other weapons. Today, 3D printing has arrived to definitively open up the game of the production of physical goods, democratizing it. We are on the eve of a revolution that will have a profound impact on the architecture, engineering and construction industry, which will undoubtedly be one of the stages in history with the greatest technological change experienced in just one generation.