Robotic Brick Layers And Other Construction Robots

A company called Construction Robotics has a real working brick laying robot. They claim 900 bricks laid by a robot and a mason (human) in 6 hours. How does that compare to human brick layers working alone? How many bricks in a typical brick house? Here is another video of their robot at work building walls for a high school in Laramie Wyoming. And another one. An Australian company, Fast Brick Robotics, claims their Hadrian robot will be able to build a brick house in 2 days. They do not seem to have that capability yet (at least as measured by a Youtube video showing it in action).They say they will be able to lay 1000 bricks per hour.If they...

Source: FuturePundit - July 5, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Randall Parker Source Type: blogs