The robot named Charlotte, which resembles a giant spider, could completely transform the construction industry. This autonomous construction system can arrive at an empty site and build a 200-square-meter house in just 24 hours — equivalent to the work of 100 bricklayers working simultaneously.
Charlotte uses industrial-scale 3D printing to construct walls layer by layer, creating structures resistant to floods and fires. Minimal human supervision is required — only for setup, material refills, and occasional software updates — while the machine autonomously handles the entire building process.
Currently in the prototype phase, initial tests are being conducted in Australia, with plans to expand testing throughout 2025. In the long term, engineers from Crest Robotics and Earthbuilt Technology plan to use this technology to build structures on the Moon as well.
Charlotte is not the first construction robot, but it is among the first attempting to fully automate building in record time. If successful, home construction will no longer depend on the number of workers — only on materials and available land.
In brief: Tech World Highlights
- Anthropic now requires all Claude users to choose by September 28 whether they want their conversations used to train AI models.
- ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, plans an employee share buyback, valuing the company at over $330 billion.
- Prosecutors are seeking a 15-year prison sentence for Kakao founder Kim Beom-su for manipulating stock prices during the takeover of SM Entertainment.
- Frontier, a carbon removal consortium supported by Google, committed to purchasing credits for removing 115,211 metric tons of carbon, valued at $31.3 million, from startup Planetary.
- Google introduced new AI features in Google Translate aimed at helping users learn new languages, inspired by the Duolingo app.
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