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Intelligent robots make wall panels for Vancouver Indigenous housing project – Construct Connect

April 3, 2024

Intelligent City, a Vancouver company that produces mass timber housing, has started using robots to produce Passive House panels at a factory south of the city.

The facility uses robotics and digital technology to bring together panel design and production, two processes that are usually carried out separately and sequentially.

“The factory was set up at the end of 2021 and started producing commercial mass timber panels in January 2024,” says Oliver Lang, CEO and co-founder of Intelligent City.

The factory has five big industrial robots arranged in manufacturing assembly zones that together comprise a safe assembly line.

The robots, which are remote-controlled with proprietary software, lift, position and custom-cut panels of mass-timber walls, floors and ceilings.

Read More: https://canada.constructconnect.com/joc/news/technology/2024/04/intelligent-robots-make-wall-panels-for-vancouver-indigenous-housing-project

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