SLJ900, China has its own bridging robot machine

October 25, 2015

Technology

If you ask me to explain to you in very few words what the SLJ900/32 is, I will answer you like this: it is a robot on wheels that weighs 580 tons, is 92 meters long and 7 and a half meters wide. If the dimensions themselves aren't enough to make your jaw twist in amazement, I continue by telling you that in China this mega-machine produced in Beijing is used to build bridges. Instead of using construction sites and means of transport, everything is concentrated in one huge device that ... Read all

If you ask me in a few words to explain what the SLJ900 / 32 is, I answer you like this: it is a robot on wheels that weighs 580 tons, is 92 meters long and 7 and a half meters wide.

If the size itself is not enough to dislocate your jaw with amazement, I will continue to tell you that in China this mega-machine produced in Beijing is used to build bridges. Instead of using construction sites and means of transport, everything is concentrated in a single huge device that fixes the parts of a bridge in position, reducing the construction time in a crazy way.

Here is a live video and an animation that better illustrates how this 'robot' works.

https://youtu.be/B6X82g2UZOs

https://youtu.be/DmLhkS46jpw

Here is the manufacturer's website

Gianluca Riccio, creative director of Melancia adv, copywriter and journalist. He is part of the Italian Institute for the Future, World Future Society and H+. Since 2006 he has directed Futuroprossimo.it, the Italian Futurology resource.

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