They will know pretty soon whether it works or not.
If it works it will be a huge success.
If it doesn’t work there will be fewer people to feed which to them is also a success.
It’s a win/win for the Chicoms no matter what!
As a former project engineer,
I can tell you people are a pain in the ass.
However a Dam is a rather one of a kind thing.
Not like cranking out 100,000 of the same kind of Toyota
car.
Interesting to see if they can pull it off.
How is their Three Gorges Dam holding up?
What could possybli go wrong?
I don’t know if I would call it “3D printing,” though. Sounds like more conventional construction techniques, just using AI-controlled equipment. I was expecting a giant concrete-extruding boom of some sort.
Also, this is possible in part because the Chicoms don’t have to negotiate with labor unions.
A beaver and a fox are sitting at the base of the Hoover dam looking up. The beaver remarks, “I didn’t build it but it was based on a concept of mine.”
Are the robots programmed to divert shipments and to substitute substandard materials? The inevitable future of AI.
How much cardboard filler will they use and how substandard will the other materials be. Winner of the contract will the one who pays the most in bribes and bids the lowest, provided the company has the right Party connections and largest kick back to Party officials.
China teaches its children math & science. America is teaching its children wokeness & perversion (hence ~40% will be homo or bi).
No contest.
“...through every step of the process the project eliminates human workers as they go fully robotic.”
Five million androids carrying wicker baskets of dirt?
Chinese dams are effectively destroying the environment of much of SE Asia (the Mekong)
https://archive.internationalrivers.org/resources/8477
The Aswan Dam has done horrible damage to the lower Nile’s ability to feed Egypt.
All in the name of “green” renewable energy.
That dam site is likely a damn sight bigger than the last dam site that was ever constructed with a 3D printer.
Does it 3D print the rebar?