AUAR, the pop-up robotic factory startup, has completed its first project – a two-storey building in Belgium.
The project, for Belgian contractor Vandenbussche, was designed as a housing unit, but will be used as an office by the company. The AUAR micro-factory manufactured all structural elements, including walls, floors and roof, as well as internal division walls. The project was conceived in AUAR’s Master Builder software, which generated both the design and the code that guided the robotic system throughout production.
With AUAR’s new micro-factories, the structure can be premanufactured in under eight hours, the startup claims. This can be reduced to less than three hours when three micro-factories work in parallel. The project in Belgium integrated glulam columns and beams, which served as a test to demonstrate how the system could scale to multifamily housing up to six storeys. The project explored adaptable design elements like varied window sizes and placement to test the flexibility of AUAR’s system.
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