How robots are taking prefabricated housing construction

Behind the three-storey rolling doors of its prototype factory in Delta, a Canadian company is fine-tuning an approach to prefabricated construction that it believes could be key to solving the housing crisis.

Intelligent City is using massive industrial robots and advanced techniques in mass-timber construction to produce complete floor and exterior wall sections for a nine-storey apartment building that will be assembled in the Toronto suburb of Etobicoke.

In the middle of the factory, a pair of automated machines on parallel tracks engage in a precisely choreographed dance to the tune of detailed digitised plans, laying down layers of glue and nailing elements together to assemble floor panels.

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Source: Vancouver Sun
Image credit: Intelligent City