3D concrete printing transforms sustainable construction | Sunrise

Sam Mack is in Melbourne. Morning to you. Good morning. Hello Nat. Things are getting real. We've got the lab coats on because we're at the Australian Academy of Science Swinburne University. Alan joins us and our students over there. Good morning everybody. Great to see you all. Alan thank you for having us. Tell us about what we're looking at here. So this is a 3D concrete printing lab. It allows you to turn your scientific ideas into real objects. Right now we are printing the all-important 7 logo out of recycled materials. So it means that you can design buildings with amazing shapes but also that use less harmful materials and that can use recycled materials to lessen the environmental impact. Well our shows are hosted by recycled presenters like myself so it makes sense. Thank you for doing that. Very cool. You will hear from our legal team. So what is this down here? So this is a more traditional kind of cement. Honestly it is just about making beautiful objects that are physically strong enough to be useful in the built environment. We combine with our architect students to create these fantastic new ways, shapes that you can only imagine and then make real when you have access to technology like this. It's absolutely fascinating and we're going to see so much more of it in the future and that's why we're meeting these students here this morning who are learning their crafts. Let's do a check of your weather though. Sunrise weather brought to you by Beacon's after pay day sale. Take 20% off everything for one week only. Now's the time to buy lights, fans, switches and more at 20% off. Sail in Sunday at Beacon. Showers for Brisbane today 25 though. Sydney showers easing windy 19. A cool one for Canberra. Again rain and nine degrees. Melbourne rain here as well. 14 for the top. We're in Hawthorne this morning. Hobart shower or two 15. Adelaide showers again 15 degrees. Perth showers 17. Darwin sunny 30 degrees. Alan we've got lots of fun things in store over the next few hours. Can you give our audience a little teaser what we can expect? What are we going to learn? What are we going to see? We're going to see the latest in robotics. The ways that we can operate safely with this amazing technology. We'll try to land a plane safely. Demonstrate the importance of simulators and testing. There's so much to see and having future students be able to imagine their careers in Australia through science just makes this such an amazing day. I heard whispers of a robo dog. Is that right? This is my kids think it's cute. I think it's terrifying. Yes you'll see the robo dog. Robo dog coming up a little later on guys. Bring it on. Very cool. Thank you.