OT Brave New World?

very practical for a taxi fleet.

The plug in hybrid has a range similar or greater than an ICE.

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harry
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The electrolyte is processed to return itto it's original state.

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harry

First step might be automating the off-site manufacture of wall panels.

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Tim Lamb

Non practical people often make the mistake of thinking computers can do anything. Indeed look for ways of using computers even where it makes things long winded.

So I'd ask you again to consider your brick laying machine. Which would have to be brought on site, positioned correctly and kept fed with the raw materials needed. And powered, of course.

Buy the time you'd done all that - using skilled and trained technicians to not only install and programme it but maintain it - a decent brickie would have moved on to the next job...

If you want to build houses with robots, makes far more sense to do so in a factory and merely assemble on site.

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Dave Plowman (News)

Of course. You change the construction to something robots can do easily. But that wasn't my point.

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Dave Plowman (News)

It is already being done. I can't recall where I saw the demonstrator, but it was some years back. It worked sort of at that time, so should have improved considerably by now. I'd have thought the worst problem was grit in the joints of the actuators. You'd obviously need CAD for the brick pattern to give yourself a chance and viscosity control of the mortar.

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Capitol

ery practical for a taxi fleet.

that won't get you far with a taxi.

You've no idea.

Once again you've no idea. Typical harry.

NT

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tabbypurr

I don't think I've ever encountered anyone so unrealistic as to think that.

at the risk of stating the obvious bots can already position themselves cor rectly.

You could always look at how house building bots do that now. It ain't a ch allenge.

another nonchallenge.

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I see you don't know anything about house building robots. Look them up som e time, they're at least an order of magnitude faster than human bricklayer s, and that's for what are early prototype machines.

yes that's true of all mechanisation and computerisation. We still get more done per hour input than before. Much more.

No, it so does not. In fact considering what bots can do now that route is madness. What makes most sense is onsite 3d printing. A multistorey buildin g finished in 24 hours, with far more design flexibility than you could hav e with bricks - how do you have a hope of competing with that.

Once the current prototype machines are perfected & commercialised, much of the new build tradespeople will simply vanish. Even on minimum wage they w ill not compete.

NT

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tabbypurr

s madness. What makes most sense is onsite 3d printing. A multistorey build ing finished in 24 hours, with far more design flexibility than you could h ave with bricks - how do you have a hope of competing with that.

of the new build tradespeople will simply vanish. Even on minimum wage they will not compete.

Google videos on 3d house printers & 3d printed castle.

NT

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tabbypurr

Look into it. That's not the case. It really is smart - within that limited field.

That's why this was so many years earlier than expected.

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Vir Campestris

I agree completely.

Over 40 years ago (during the 70's oil price crisis) I went to a talk by Alan Cottrell, an eminent scientist for whom I had great regard. He said there isn't any energy crisis, there is plenty of coal and we won't need people to mine it, we will just send down robots. At the time, I was much engaged with the difficulty of getting machinery to handle fuel elements reliably some 20 metres below the pile cap, the operating "floor" of nuclear power stations.

This was probably the first time I realised that *really clever* people often say *really stupid* things, when they stray out of their area of experience. I have observed it many times since then.

I'd have said that a deep coal mine (or any other tunnelling operation) makes bricklaying on a typical building site look easy!

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newshound

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