Harvard 3D History + NASA Drone Safety + Construction Robots Ranked + Sustainability Digital Twins

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The Re/Cap Podcast

Reality Capture Network

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If knowledge is power, and laughter is the best medicine, The Re/Cap Podcast is the 21st century’s penicillin. Except it’s free. No matter your field, The Re/Cap Podcast with RCN’s Ellis Malmgren serves up tech news in the industry’s most distinctive manner. Drawn from RCN’s signature Re/Cap newsletter, it’s where reality capture stands, who’s advancing it, and the history behind it. Oh, it’s also home to RCN’s famed AEC Error of the Week. It’s fun, informed, curious, a wee bit bold, and it would love to have you.

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Harvard 3D History + NASA Drone Safety + Construction Robots Ranked + Sustainability Digital Twins

The Re/Cap Podcast

17 minutes 14 seconds

6 months ago

Harvard 3D History + NASA Drone Safety + Construction Robots Ranked + Sustainability Digital Twins

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It's The Re/Cap Podcast with Ellis Malmgren!

This week’s ‘cappenings:

The 2011 mega-capture of a famed 1,000-year-old French monastery
A Harvard 3D Exhibit is a PhD in photogrammetry and historic preservation
NASA seeks to safeguard our drones
Construction bots get the Top 5 treatment
Digital twins and sustainable design approach peas-and-carrots status
An AEC Error of the Week at Denver International in which the only turbulence was with folks’ luggage

Quick caps:

Chinese LiDAR can recognize a face…from space https://www.biometricupdate.com/202504/chinese-lidar-system-could-recognize-a-face-from-space

Gaussian splatting in Blender https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-KNyJiLSPs

A concrete TED Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMiPKpXbm9A

The 3D scanning traveling metrology team keeping Warfighters airborne

https://metrology.news/traveling-metrology-team-keeps-warfighters-airborne-with-3d-scanning/

A new study on improving building energy models https://www.azobuild.com/news.aspx?newsID=23740

High-fidelity wheat plant reconstructions using 3D Gaussian splatting and neural radiance fields https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/article/doi/10.1093/gigascience/giaf022/8096368?login=false

Timestamps

0:00 Overview

0:29 The 2011 reality capture of a 1,000-year-old Cluny Monastery

2:49 Quick cap stories

3:20 Photogrammetry Honored an Architectural Historian, and Resurrected Ruins, at Once

5:07 NASA Is Ensuring Our Drones Can (Safely) Go to Infinity and Beyond

7:20 Droids in the Dirt: Autonomous Robots for Construction Sites, Ranked!

11:14 Copy That: How Digital Twins Make Sustainable Design an Easier “Yes”

13:36 AEC Error of the Week: Denver International Airport’s Automated Baggage System

Main Re/Cap sources:

https://www.cluny-abbaye.fr/en/discover/history-of-the-abbey-of-cluny

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/03/an-architect-detectives-medieval-mystery/

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/aam/nasa-makes-progress-on-advanced-drone-safety-management-system/

https://www.unite.ai/autonomous-robots-for-construction/

https://parametric-architecture.com/digital-twins-and-sustainability/

https://noonpi.com/the-denver-international-airport-automated-baggage-handling-system/

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