Robot could build much of your next house

"Fastbrick Robotics says its Hadrian X robot will build the shell of a building in just two days ? replacing weeks of work by masons"

"...will be capable of laying approximately 1,000 bricks per hour...

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Oren
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Per Oren:

Back in the mainframe days, we used to joke about media treatments of "Artificial Intelligence" - calling it "Artificial Stupidity".

Looks to me like The Real Deal is here - and I would think the next huge shakeup economically is going to be the unemployment created by AI machines.

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(PeteCresswell)

They could have used one of those here. I went down to the beach for lunch, they are building a new beach pavillion there. It's been going on for months, they are starting to put shingles on the roof, no siding, no interior yet. All I saw were 3 guys standing around BSing. After half an hour, another guy showed up and they went into the contruction office. All were white guys, so I'm assuming it's a union deal. Reminded me of the Sopranos, where as part of their shake down they got 3 no show jobs, 6 no work jobs, etc. Typical real construction project here they'd have 15+ guys on it, a lot or most of them Mexican/Latino and they'd be busting their ass. But this is a municipal contract.

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trader_4

The Science Channel has a show called How It's Made. Common words on the show are robot, computer, laser.

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Dean Hoffman

I saw a building show where they showed custom homes being made wall by wall in a factory. This was jigs, robot saws and nailers with the workers just bring the wood to the job and moving it around. You just tilt up the walls and connect them together. Everything has the skin on it, wiring inside and insulated where it needs to be.

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gfretwell

Per snipped-for-privacy@aol.com:

Our house was built that way - and back in the 50's.... the guy behind it pioneered the technique. The house is no prize (my German relatives would call it "Junk" - not even a decent dog house)... but it's still standing and nothing leaks.

OTOH, my #2 daughter's house, which was built/assembled the same way a few years ago by unskilled labor, really *is* junk....

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(PeteCresswell)

Well, yeah, except relatively few houses in the U.S. are built of bricks. Most of them are built of sticks and maybe veneered with bricks.

My house is a little unusual. It is built of bricks, and is veneered with stone.

Cindy Hamilton

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Cindy Hamilton

We do mostly block here and I would challenge this machine to beat a gang of latino block layers. The mere fact that they say "weeks" in the article shows they are pretty much ignorant of the process. It took less than a week to do all of the block on a 2000 sq/ft house when my wife was building and this was laying block over #5 rebar dowel rods every 4 feet for the first 5 courses. To be fair you also have to add the time it takes to transport the machine, set it up and break it down. Two 8 man block crews show up in one van, with all of their tools and towing the mixer ;-)

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gfretwell

Word. I attended a talk by a Pew Research fellow who said we are only in the middle of the Technical (as opposed to Industrial) Age, the effects of which we are only beginning to see. He said the new robotics will eventually mean the automation of most jobs. Already more jobs in the US manufacturing sector have been lost to automation than have gone overseas. You don't need to send the work to China when robots can do it even cheaper here.

He said the next big shakeup will be in the commercial trucking industry. Robotic trucking is being rolled out in Europe now, and will come to the US soon. The biggest expense in transportation is labor costs. Robotic trucks don't need to take rest breaks, meaning a massive cost savings. But that's an awful lot of jobs lost. And white-collar jobs are not exempt; in many cases, they're even more vulnerable to automation.

It was both a very interesting and very grim talk.

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Moe DeLoughan

Yes to the music but these guys will work circles around your average anglo. That is particularly true in Florida where the heat just kills your average kid who grew up with air conditioning or moved down from Michigan.

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gfretwell

Per Moe DeLoughan:

Couple days ago there was a piece about a beer delivery done via self-driving truck:

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(PeteCresswell)

Per snipped-for-privacy@aol.com:

"John Henry"

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(PeteCresswell)

Per Oren:

There weren't any siestas for the guys who did our roof a few years back. Those guys *worked*.... My wife even tried to feed them and the wouldn't stop for that.

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(PeteCresswell)

Don't know much about latinos I guess.

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gfretwell

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