Courtesy of Mish.
Brick-Laying Robots
In the past few weeks, numerous readers sent me emails about brick-laying robots, so many that I wonder if most have already seen this.
If not, please consider Brick-Laying Robot can Build a Full-Sized House in Two Days.
Engineers in Perth, Australia, have created a fully working house-building machine that can create the brick framework of a property in just two days, working about 20 times faster than a human bricklayer.
Named Hadrian (after Hadrian’s Wall in the UK), the robot has a top laying speed of 1,000 bricks per hour, which works out as the equivalent of about 150 homes a year. Of course there’s no need for the machine to sleep, eat or take tea breaks either, giving it another advantage over manual laborers.
At the heart of Hadrian is a 28 m (92 ft.) articulated telescopic boom. The boom auto-corrects itself 1,000 times per second to prevent interference from vibrations or sway.
Hadrian Video
Link if video does not play: Hadrian Can Lay 1,000 Bricks and Hour.
Video of SAM another Brick-Laying Robot
Link if video does not play: Introduction to Construction Robotics and the bricklaying robot SAM
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