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Indian steel giant Tata Steel is set to develop a GreenPro framework for steel rebars, a-first-of-a-kind initiative in India. The company will undertake the development in collaboration with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Green Business Centre and other relevant ...

European researchers have developed a cable-driven robot called Hephaestus that aims to automate the on-site execution or installation process in the construction industry. The whole system operates through eight flexible cables to build, repair, and maintain building façades. The robot ...

A five-year-long research conducted at UBC Okanagan’s School of Engineering, Canada, has concluded that recycled concrete can perform as efficiently as conventional concrete, and in several cases, even better than it. Waste originating from demolition and construction activities alone contribute ...

Machine learning and artificial intelligence have long been in the construction industry to make some real impactful ripples. After almost two years of development in Thornton Tomasetti’s CORE lab, engineers have created a computer-vision, machine-learning algorithm known as the Thornton ...

A swarm of robots turning themselves into bridges, buildings, vehicles, and what not! Sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie? Not anymore. Researchers at MIT and the US Army are working on robot swarms, a bunch of mechanical metamaterials ...

Boston Dynamics’ famous robot dog, Spot, is widely known for its versatility. After demonstrating its ability to pull trucks, work on oil rigs, and even herd sheep, the canine-like bot is now surprising everyone with its role on construction sites. ...

Canada-based infrastructure technology company, Niricson, has developed a unique drone-based data collection and damage-assessment system to inspect and detect problems with aging infrastructure. The system was recently put into use for inspecting dams for BC Hydro and could soon play ...