14 DAY TRIAL // Demolitions are a messy business. They create lots of noise, dust and loads of debris. The good news is that a so-called concrete-eating robot promises to turn such issues into a thing of the past.
The robot, dubbed ERO, was created by a student at the Umea Institute of Design in Sweden, sources say. Its inventor, Omer Haciomeroglu, explains that it uses water to blow the concrete into smithereens.
It then feeds on the resulting debris, before this gets the chance to contaminate the environment.
What's more, it creates little vibration, so the people using it don't need to worry about damaging other parts of a building than the ones they are trying to demolish.
“ERO uses water jets to crack the concrete surface to disassemble concrete and sucks up the mixed debris. It cleanly separates the waste mixture and packages the cleaned material.”
“What was previously waste, now turns into labeled packaged asset to be transferred right away into concrete pre-casting stations to be re-molded into new building blocks. No dust, no waste, no separation,” Omer Haciomeroglu details.