{"id":3327,"date":"2025-08-12T20:36:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/?p=3327"},"modified":"2025-08-15T15:28:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T15:28:43","slug":"mobile-robotic-factory-deployed-to-create-modular-housing-for-la-wildfire-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/2025\/08\/12\/mobile-robotic-factory-deployed-to-create-modular-housing-for-la-wildfire-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"“Mobile robotic factory” deployed to create modular housing for LA wildfire recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US home builder Cosmic Buildings<\/a> and technology company ABB Robotics have collaborated on a temporary robotic construction system housed in a tent to produce modular housing<\/a> to aid in the recovery of the Los Angeles wildfires<\/a> earlier this year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cosmic Buildings<\/a> (Cosmic) created one of its Micro-Factories<\/a>, consisting of a tent in a vacant Los Angeles plot in Pacific Palisades. It is outfitted with one large robotic arm produced by technology company ABB Robotics<\/a> (ABB).<\/p>\n

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Cosmic Buildings and ABB Robotics have set up a “microfactory” for house building in Los Angeles following the wildfires<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The robot, which sits at the centre of the tent, pieces together two-inch x six-inch lumber boards to create a frame, and then nails plywood<\/a> pieces to the structure to create a standardised wall panel for home-building.<\/p>\n

The panels are then used to create a variety of custom modular single-family house designs by Cosmic.<\/p>\n

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A singular robotic arm produces structural wall panels<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Two people are needed to feed the materials to the robot and to offload the finished panel. Cosmic CEO Sasha Jokic said the system produces a panel in about 20 minutes, and that the whole full frame of the house can be completed in 10 days, decreasing construction time by 70 per cent overall.<\/p>\n

“The mobile robotic factory brings certainty and precision, which is the most important thing,” Jokic told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

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The arm first pieces together two-inch x six-inch lumber boards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Every panel we build [with the] robot \u2013 it’s precise. That means when we break the ground and start building the foundation, we start building the panels. You can start building the rest of the parts of the building at the same time.”<\/p>\n

Additional elements, such as exterior cladding, flooring, and roofing, are constructed off-site and then added to the structure.<\/p>\n

The team emphasised that solutions like these are necessary to rebuild after the devastating Los Angeles wildfires that destroyed tens of thousands of home earlier this year.<\/p>\n

“After the wildfires burned thousands of acres, destroying homes, infrastructure, and natural habitats, this pioneering initiative will deploy the microfactory in Pacific Palisades, California, to build modular structures onsite, offering a glimpse into the future of affordable housing construction,” said ABB.<\/p>\n

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