Mashable (Aug. 27) -- The workers building a lavish new downtown stadium for the Sacramento Kings in California are being monitored by aerial drones and software that can automatically flag slow progress. "We highlight at-risk locations on a site, where the probability of having an issue is really high," says Mani Golparvar-Fard, a professor of civil engineering at Illinois, who developed the software with several colleagues. Also: MIT Technology Review (Aug. 26), Popular Mechanics (Aug. 26), Construction Global (Aug. 26), Tech Times (Aug. 26), CNBC (Aug. 27), International Business Times (Aug. 27), Time (Aug. 27), ASEE FirstBell (Aug. 28), Engadget (Aug. 29).
Drone construction monitors
8/27/2015