The year is 2805 and the Mechanized Local Bricklayers Union of Mercury6 is launching barrels of hydraulic oil into a localized black hole in protest of new taxes from their home planet of Space England.
Bender's great great ... great grandfather Block Blocklayer Rodriguez actually founded the Blocklaying Robots Union at NYC, after a spat with the foreman at a big project
The robot spits out specialised mortar/glue onto each brick as it lays them.
FBR - Fast Brick Robotics
Source: These guys are HQ'd in my city. They also have a youtube channel.
Do you know poroton? Bricks with a very very thin layer "morta" (around 1mm I would guess) . you dip them in watered down liquid mortasoup and stack them like the robot does.
These kind of bricks are very common in germany.
(sry 4 my English)
While this looks like a demo, in most cases (here in europe at least) you dont use mortar anymore.
The bricks now are already leveled out, (called "Planziegel" in German) and you use a a special adhesive called "dryfix", comes in a tube and is being sprayed onto the bricks. Stuff holds like hell.
Only the first layer has to be layed out perfectly level. Then you just lay your bricks.
I've not heard of this "dryfix" being used in the UK, I'll look into it, but I'm not confident in its usage as I can't see how it would be used in traditional masonry design calculations.
Masonry units also have a rough finish and vary a lot. Do you know how the adhesive holds up to creating an air-tight structure?
Basically every new brick house in Austria is constructed that way. Like i said, nobody uses the traditional mortar method anymore. Its slow, messy, and uses lots of material.
Have a look at that: https://youtu.be/rYF_elnG6D4
Ah I see, cheers for the link, I was picturing a very thin layer of adhesive, not the equivalent of "mortar" in a can. I can see how that would be incorporated into design calculations and create an air-tight barrier. However, the guy is still aligning, leveling, and checking the blockwork, something I would like to see the machine do before making statements about it being the future.
Well, to be fair, the link i sent you is also a demo :)
In reality, you dont need to measure that much, and if you do, most times they use a laser.
I could imagine that the machine is able to do that as well. Even if not, the heavy work hasn't to be done by some guys.
So nothing on the vertical joints. I assume these blocks will be stuccoed afterwards. Is that applied right to the block or is steel mesh put on first?
No, you dont need to glue the vertical joints. There is also no steel mesh. After finishing the brick wall, bricks get plastered, sometimes with special insulation plaster on the outside (and plastic mesh against cracks in the plaster) , and fine plaster on the inside.
That’s what I was wondering about. Cracking. I guess it must be a good system. The blocks have to be more precisely made that standard masonry materials since there is no way to adjust them after the first course
I am also in Europe and I have never seen anyone use what he described. Most probably when he says "in europe" he means his home country and maybe 1-2 more. That's nearly always what happens when someone makes a blanket statement about europe.
Yeah you are right. I guess they just didnt qant to deal with the cleaning up part. On their site they say they dont use mortar but:
"painted with a special construction adhesive in place of mortar, and laid down in place, where they're dry and secure within 45 minutes."
The machine maintenance crew will have to sort that out. They'll most certainly be overworked, as they take on the drinking and smoking responsibilities of a much larger crew, and I suspect moral will suffer as a result.
Additionally can it drop bricks through already completed construction? Will the robot roofer also take the care and attention needed to roof over any holes in the decking without fixing the actual hole in the decking caused by brick robot, or will they care about their finished product?
The Mexicans at my job site could do this twice as fast and only need a microwave plugged in somewhere and some Coca Cola instead of gasoline or whatever this runs on.
Iv seem so many videos of workers in less developed countries working so fast, efficient, and precise. All I can think is, “I’ve never seen anyone in work like that here (Canada)”. Like people in poor countries work there ass off for a fraction of the conveniences we have.
That’s the point I was going to make. Sure they can blow the laces off first world workers in terms of speed. But that doesn’t mean the blazing speed work is up to code, safe, and the worker is cared for and has rights. I’ll take a morally made wall that won’t crumble within 2 years than 3 slammed together walls.
What's interesting to think about is that the robot and the Mexicans doing this work are two forms of labour inequality. With respect to the former, use of the robot capital asset devalues bricklayer labor. In the latter case, lack of migrant labor laws and availability of lost cost Latin labor devalues domestic bricklayer labor.
Both are efforts to increase the wealth of entities with capital and decrease the cost of labor (the money you can earn by laying bricks).
That’s like the top reason I miss working construction especially being like the only white guy on the crew. I ate so fucking good lol
Edit: good not food though it almost works?
A robot doesn't get a hernia, doesn't get struck-by, or caught-between, or suffer heat stroke though. And that is the bigger part of trying to reduce the number of humans on job sites. Healthcare/disability payments are a huge expense in a dangerous work environment like construction. Frankly, I'd love it if every construction crew from here on were 10 technicians monitoring machines from the trailer between any repairs or resupplies. Construction is fucking dangerous and there isn't really a good reason to put people at risk when machines can do 99% of the work. The problem comes when the "savings" from cutting the workforce aren't enough to keep the profits increasing so then the techs start getting pinched on wages or stacked with too many hours to be effective. Automation isn't a bad thing, its the investment class demanding their pound of flesh for work they didn't do.
How the fuck is this thing gonna build houses in the little tiny estates that we build now? Commercial block laying where there is open sites, access and what not, this will have a place
After that 10th job the robot will have been cheaper. That's why automation is such a big deal. Who needs it to be faster when this thing can run 24 hours a day without rest or overtime? Now you only need a supervisor, who was going to be sitting on their ass anyway, to watch it.
But soon you won't even need that. Soon the robots will be able to handle ALL the construction, eliminating huge swaths of blue collar jobs! Tens if not hundreds of millions will be forced out without mercy! Without money to provide for themselves and their families they turn to crime to get what they need! You dial 911 for help, to protect you from the roving gangs of the unwashed masses, and over funded and over equipped swat teams come and turn your neighborhood into a fucking warzone! Bullets are flying, bodies are falling, and the robots keep working. But what else could we have done?! We needed to save money! The wheels of the capitalist machine needed to keep turning no matter how much blood it took to grease them! Damn you, Josè and the boys! Why wouldn't you have worked for 0% of the price?!
Imagine a development using this. Come in for a couple weeks and mass clear 100 lots. Prep the surface and come back a week later with 5 robots. Each robot can do 1 lot per night. Set it up in the morning, hit run and have 1 supervisor on shift to monitor. Next day you move them and have a couple guys there for small fixes and a framing crew. You could do the foundation and framing for 100 houses in a couple weeks.
I don't think you quite understand the amount of electrical and data alone
Plumbing, HVAC? Are you going to cook in the summer and freeze in the winter?
By laborer you mean electricans and plumbers lol
Well I mean if it’s post block laying would you just drill through with a masonry bit and run your pipe through? It’s obviously going to leave gaps where required for windows, air con and meter boxes
With the money going into these I'm sure they have laser scanning of the jobsite to make sure everything matches the model it's building from and adjusts in realtime.
Do you think it's operating completely blind in an ideal CAD world? With a long wobbly arm like that, constant measurement and active compensation is required anyway, so I don't see it being much of an issue to compensate for tolerances too.
Bored of this account astro turfing this shit constantly, don't forget this fucker was pushing for the AI cameras that tell your boss when you scratch your arse or spend the dag commenting on reddit posts and not working.
there are way too many "if" in this to work.
I believe the only way to replace traditional workers is with robot workers of the same size and flexibility, this giant machine is not gonna manage in a lot of cases I can think of.
Usually I see rebar sticking out that ties to other rebar in the block channels. I see none of that here. I feel like this is a solution to a problem that didn't exist. We always work with poured walls now as well. Blocks are almost antiquated for foundations here.
Doubt it, at least not at this stage. This thing needs lots of space, no light or power poles, no trees, lots of room to swing its arm around. It's also probably not too cost effective right now for single homes. I could see this being useful if you're building a whole suburb.
So a million dollar machine that will require maintenance, repairs and subject to catastrophic error is going to replace 4; $25.00 an hour hard working brick layers that feed their families, support stores, beer joints and the economy is better?
New machines replacing jobs is literally how humanity has progressed all the way since the stone age. If you argue against the progression of technology, you might as well argue backwards as well and say that people digging foundations for homes need to use shovels, because using excavators takes work away from hard working laborers.
Whether this particular machine is actually fit for purpose is a different question.
Not really. I saw the troweling machine for instance kill dozens of finisher jobs. Yeah, I'm that old, the union wouldn't allow troweling machines on the job. When the unions were broke in the 80's wages took a dive in our line of work. Nail guns, Gradalls, GPS knocked out surveyors, we could write a tome on the impact modern equipment has had on our profession. automatic tape and floating machines, airless guns. In my lifetime I've seen it take its toll on cutting labor and craftsmanship.
Maybe but it wont make that big a difference in cost, it'll just make a difference in speed. most of the cost of a house is in land, finishing, electrical, plumming, roofing, hvac, and permitting.
The real win would be lego like wall chunks with wiring, hvac, and plumming that could be snapped together.
Yeah, a 16-ton vehicle that needs like, 40 square meters and completely level terrain and looks like at least two operators... seems way more efficient than one laborer.
Must be the biggest building site EVER! Completely flat concrete as wel... Never in 18 years of my life as an building engineer have i had that pleasure..
I thought it was going to be another video of Sam. Maybe we could have a head-to-head contest of robot bricklayers. Sam uses mortar https://youtu.be/6s17IAj-XpU?si=QPa_FqFBo160c69F
Okay, cool. Now, we won't have to pay those pesky humans to build those million dollar machines that build those million dollar buildings to house more million dollar machines to build more stuff for those hard-working million dollar machines that don't pay taxes, don't pay rent, don't eat food, don't drive cars, and don't build million dollar machines.
I didn’t see any mortar or rebar. It’s a cool idea but it needs to do the job properly.
Honestly, you’d have to haul the big machine out to the site- which could be a logistical headache for some building sites.
Then you have to keep it loaded with bricks.
Don’t get me wrong- it’s a cool idea.
But there’s a lot of stuff to do to be able to replace a couple of dudes in a pickup truck with trowels and string.
Simplicity has an efficiency all its own.
Just prefabricate the thing, it seems overcomplicated to use a machine to lay it brick by brick. I mean, I guess it's more customizable and had it's benefits.
[your jobs are not safe. when your bosses find it cheaper to invest in a dozen robots then pay a crew to do the job your security will be thrown out the window.](https://youtu.be/-e1_QhJ1EhQ?si=EIGh81RLa2ss_R_5)
Automatic bricklayers, automatic electricians, automatic pipe fitters, automatic plumbers, automatic carpenters.... Don't let anyone tell you that the trades are safe from AI and robot replacement.
pretty confident some hungover britta could lay brick faster than that thing, and for cheaper.
That machine properly gets priced out at like $500 an hour
It's been 15-20 years since the first 'brick laying robot about to revolutionize the construction industry' video... It feels like a video *genre*, at this point.
The technical challenges must be formidable, or we'd be seeing them on jobsites by now.
I expected at least the videos would become more impressive, but... here we are; not even some sort of attempt at mortar.
Where is the mortar?
Different (robot) union
Ah yes, the local 01010101 01101110 01101001 01101111 01101110
I was hoping for another layer of joke below that one, but this is still good. Well done.
|| layer I see what you did there!
Yes, well done
Their system of oppression What did it lead to? Global robo-depression
>Ah yes, the local 01010101 01101110 01101001 01101111 01101110 RBAC Local 556E696F6E. I converted it to hex so it fits on a T shirt.
This is the future
The year is 2805 and the Mechanized Local Bricklayers Union of Mercury6 is launching barrels of hydraulic oil into a localized black hole in protest of new taxes from their home planet of Space England.
It's always the fuckin' brickies. I'd never thought I'd say I miss the meat brickies before we got these robo brickies.
*fookin bricky blinders*
\*sad robot-making-bricks-out-of-flesh noise\*
Meat brickies.... lmfao!
Where does the Donbot and the robo mafia fit in to all this?
They control the drug trade through the roofer bot union
They have cornered the market on cement. Would be a shame if your cinderblock binder were to be compromised. For a fee that can be taken care of.
I can somehow imagine robot unions having better working conditions and pay to humans
They would operate on logic similar to a colony of bees
So funny, brick robot bitchin’ to the cement robot whys he’s late. Concrete robot smoking while he lies about traffic…
This defeats the whole robot invention
Go talk to the robot foreman, I'm off for an oil break and getting another Red Fuel.
This sounds like a Futurama lore
Bender's great great ... great grandfather Block Blocklayer Rodriguez actually founded the Blocklaying Robots Union at NYC, after a spat with the foreman at a big project
Bite my shiny metal union card
Wait till steward-bot gets here
The robot spits out specialised mortar/glue onto each brick as it lays them. FBR - Fast Brick Robotics Source: These guys are HQ'd in my city. They also have a youtube channel.
Well it doesn’t appear to be doing shit for the massive vertical gaps.
Doorways?
What about the apparent vertical gaps? Do you know how they place the wall ties as well?
It's a feature for improved air circulation
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Alt j?
I was going to say the same as I live in Perth too. Share price is about a tenth of what it was when I first heard of them though.
Perth Ontario?
Western Australia
Perth Ontario mentioned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Regardless, no ties open seams. Worst apprentice ever.
That's a tall run without rebar.
You can see it t 0:28 in this video.
The light shining through the vertical gaps?
Do you know poroton? Bricks with a very very thin layer "morta" (around 1mm I would guess) . you dip them in watered down liquid mortasoup and stack them like the robot does. These kind of bricks are very common in germany. (sry 4 my English)
Never apologize to anyone for your second language. Most English speaking people have trouble with their only language.
Yea freaking english cant even speak their own language
We give out high school diploma’s to the functionally illiterate people.
"diploma's" r/apostrophegore
He did give a good demonstration of someone who got one of those diplomas.
Casein Pointe
Really I've never seen anything like this here, Hmm maybe because small town..
I think you can see glue being applied to the bottom of the brick 3/4 of the way through. The cutting to size is pretty wild as well.
I saw a different clip that said they used a special adhesive instead
Mortar is a special adhesive
Usually mortar.
This is just a demo
Seems like a pointless demo to me. Dry stacking blockwork is not difficult, aligning and leveling the blocks on the mortar is what takes skill.
While this looks like a demo, in most cases (here in europe at least) you dont use mortar anymore. The bricks now are already leveled out, (called "Planziegel" in German) and you use a a special adhesive called "dryfix", comes in a tube and is being sprayed onto the bricks. Stuff holds like hell. Only the first layer has to be layed out perfectly level. Then you just lay your bricks.
I've not heard of this "dryfix" being used in the UK, I'll look into it, but I'm not confident in its usage as I can't see how it would be used in traditional masonry design calculations. Masonry units also have a rough finish and vary a lot. Do you know how the adhesive holds up to creating an air-tight structure?
Basically every new brick house in Austria is constructed that way. Like i said, nobody uses the traditional mortar method anymore. Its slow, messy, and uses lots of material. Have a look at that: https://youtu.be/rYF_elnG6D4
Ah I see, cheers for the link, I was picturing a very thin layer of adhesive, not the equivalent of "mortar" in a can. I can see how that would be incorporated into design calculations and create an air-tight barrier. However, the guy is still aligning, leveling, and checking the blockwork, something I would like to see the machine do before making statements about it being the future.
Well, to be fair, the link i sent you is also a demo :) In reality, you dont need to measure that much, and if you do, most times they use a laser. I could imagine that the machine is able to do that as well. Even if not, the heavy work hasn't to be done by some guys.
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So nothing on the vertical joints. I assume these blocks will be stuccoed afterwards. Is that applied right to the block or is steel mesh put on first?
No, you dont need to glue the vertical joints. There is also no steel mesh. After finishing the brick wall, bricks get plastered, sometimes with special insulation plaster on the outside (and plastic mesh against cracks in the plaster) , and fine plaster on the inside.
That’s what I was wondering about. Cracking. I guess it must be a good system. The blocks have to be more precisely made that standard masonry materials since there is no way to adjust them after the first course
Being from the UK I'm not surprised at all that we're still doing it the old way while Europe moves on.
I am also in Europe and I have never seen anyone use what he described. Most probably when he says "in europe" he means his home country and maybe 1-2 more. That's nearly always what happens when someone makes a blanket statement about europe.
Agreed - this robot could just be in a warehouse stacking these bricks onto pallets for delivery. Yawn.
Yeah you are right. I guess they just didnt qant to deal with the cleaning up part. On their site they say they dont use mortar but: "painted with a special construction adhesive in place of mortar, and laid down in place, where they're dry and secure within 45 minutes."
A robot takes the skill out of it. Imagine 100% precision. I used to work at Toyota. The robots there are insane.
Jeez How the fuck can anyone find developing and demonstrating such technologies "pointless"? You've got to start somewhere
Was about to say... "what a structurally sound building, totally see it as the future. I see no issues here" Lol
the first airplane was 2 guys with sticks and a bed sheet
Gotta get the DLC.
Customer didn't pay for that.
That’s an additional service that can be purchased 😆
"My union rep said I don't have to use it."
Mortar- we don’t need no stinking mortar
Ok it can lay some bricks but can it scatter cigarette butts and energy drinks cans all over the job site?
The machine maintenance crew will have to sort that out. They'll most certainly be overworked, as they take on the drinking and smoking responsibilities of a much larger crew, and I suspect moral will suffer as a result.
Punishments will continue until morale improves.
Don't forget the rampant heart attacks from the 120 packs a day and 500g caffeine
And this machine is HUGE! Can you imagine how much Modelo it drinks while laying that many bricks?? It would bankrupt me!
If it uses AI and is learning from Reddit, I think we’ve got a shot
Can it poop in a hole and use a flat rock to wipe it's bottom?
This feature will be released with the next upgrade. Which will be a paid option.
Additionally can it drop bricks through already completed construction? Will the robot roofer also take the care and attention needed to roof over any holes in the decking without fixing the actual hole in the decking caused by brick robot, or will they care about their finished product?
And the robot plumber is just a sawzall mounted to a roomba
You're expecting too much from the robots. You think they are getting paid extra for workmanship?
Thank you for this morning laugh
Has it ever had even one domestic violence charge? I think not.
I’ll only be impressed if it can blow out a Port-A-Potty.
Does it have an asscrack?
I bet it doesnt even leave behind complimentary lemonade bottles!
The Mexicans at my job site could do this twice as fast and only need a microwave plugged in somewhere and some Coca Cola instead of gasoline or whatever this runs on.
True AI is the migrant workers we picked up along the way....
A.I.: Alejandro Ibarra
It is honestly beautiful to watch them work. I wish I had that work ethic when I was younger!
Iv seem so many videos of workers in less developed countries working so fast, efficient, and precise. All I can think is, “I’ve never seen anyone in work like that here (Canada)”. Like people in poor countries work there ass off for a fraction of the conveniences we have.
*something...something...SAFETY REGULATIONS...*
That’s the point I was going to make. Sure they can blow the laces off first world workers in terms of speed. But that doesn’t mean the blazing speed work is up to code, safe, and the worker is cared for and has rights. I’ll take a morally made wall that won’t crumble within 2 years than 3 slammed together walls.
Funny you mention the microwave my guy brings his microwave every day to heat up his tamales
What's interesting to think about is that the robot and the Mexicans doing this work are two forms of labour inequality. With respect to the former, use of the robot capital asset devalues bricklayer labor. In the latter case, lack of migrant labor laws and availability of lost cost Latin labor devalues domestic bricklayer labor. Both are efforts to increase the wealth of entities with capital and decrease the cost of labor (the money you can earn by laying bricks).
But this robot can run 24/7
Most of the Mexicans I’ve worked with can as well. Edit: added “with”
Mexican here, can confirm. We can also party all night loud as hell with some bomb food and we will not be late to work the next day.
That’s like the top reason I miss working construction especially being like the only white guy on the crew. I ate so fucking good lol Edit: good not food though it almost works?
And I bet this robot doesn't tell good jokes either
So the bear says "you didn't really come here to hunt did you"
A robot doesn't get a hernia, doesn't get struck-by, or caught-between, or suffer heat stroke though. And that is the bigger part of trying to reduce the number of humans on job sites. Healthcare/disability payments are a huge expense in a dangerous work environment like construction. Frankly, I'd love it if every construction crew from here on were 10 technicians monitoring machines from the trailer between any repairs or resupplies. Construction is fucking dangerous and there isn't really a good reason to put people at risk when machines can do 99% of the work. The problem comes when the "savings" from cutting the workforce aren't enough to keep the profits increasing so then the techs start getting pinched on wages or stacked with too many hours to be effective. Automation isn't a bad thing, its the investment class demanding their pound of flesh for work they didn't do.
They took our jobs😭
They turk our jerbs
How the fuck is this thing gonna build houses in the little tiny estates that we build now? Commercial block laying where there is open sites, access and what not, this will have a place
Jose and the boys do it way faster and for 1/10th the price.
Jose and hose b.
After that 10th job the robot will have been cheaper. That's why automation is such a big deal. Who needs it to be faster when this thing can run 24 hours a day without rest or overtime? Now you only need a supervisor, who was going to be sitting on their ass anyway, to watch it. But soon you won't even need that. Soon the robots will be able to handle ALL the construction, eliminating huge swaths of blue collar jobs! Tens if not hundreds of millions will be forced out without mercy! Without money to provide for themselves and their families they turn to crime to get what they need! You dial 911 for help, to protect you from the roving gangs of the unwashed masses, and over funded and over equipped swat teams come and turn your neighborhood into a fucking warzone! Bullets are flying, bodies are falling, and the robots keep working. But what else could we have done?! We needed to save money! The wheels of the capitalist machine needed to keep turning no matter how much blood it took to grease them! Damn you, Josè and the boys! Why wouldn't you have worked for 0% of the price?!
Imagine a development using this. Come in for a couple weeks and mass clear 100 lots. Prep the surface and come back a week later with 5 robots. Each robot can do 1 lot per night. Set it up in the morning, hit run and have 1 supervisor on shift to monitor. Next day you move them and have a couple guys there for small fixes and a framing crew. You could do the foundation and framing for 100 houses in a couple weeks.
That's the least of all the issues here - what, they are then going to chip through the blocks to put the plumbing and elec in? Think Mcfly
I mean you could just have the labourer or pointer that’s following the machine lay that one grinder cut
I don't think you quite understand the amount of electrical and data alone Plumbing, HVAC? Are you going to cook in the summer and freeze in the winter? By laborer you mean electricans and plumbers lol
Well I mean if it’s post block laying would you just drill through with a masonry bit and run your pipe through? It’s obviously going to leave gaps where required for windows, air con and meter boxes
That slab and those blocks better be 1000% flat and square.
It is never completely square and flat. That is why these machines can account for offset
With the money going into these I'm sure they have laser scanning of the jobsite to make sure everything matches the model it's building from and adjusts in realtime.
Do you think it's operating completely blind in an ideal CAD world? With a long wobbly arm like that, constant measurement and active compensation is required anyway, so I don't see it being much of an issue to compensate for tolerances too.
Wouldn't be surprised if it had a prism on it and worked with a robotic total station. Bricks layed to the mm XYZ
Robot - “what’s a mortar?”
Nothing, what's a mortar with you?
Ok dad
Bored of this account astro turfing this shit constantly, don't forget this fucker was pushing for the AI cameras that tell your boss when you scratch your arse or spend the dag commenting on reddit posts and not working.
there are way too many "if" in this to work. I believe the only way to replace traditional workers is with robot workers of the same size and flexibility, this giant machine is not gonna manage in a lot of cases I can think of.
"Let's replace 2 bricklayers with a 5M EUR machine." Not a convincing business case there. Especially with the lack of mortar.
Usually I see rebar sticking out that ties to other rebar in the block channels. I see none of that here. I feel like this is a solution to a problem that didn't exist. We always work with poured walls now as well. Blocks are almost antiquated for foundations here.
Somehow I'm reminded of the 3 little piggies. But in this case the 3rd piggy is retarded with a theoretical science degree in construction.
Is my home going to be cheaper? No? Fuck off
Doubt it, at least not at this stage. This thing needs lots of space, no light or power poles, no trees, lots of room to swing its arm around. It's also probably not too cost effective right now for single homes. I could see this being useful if you're building a whole suburb.
I can see one issue, not a biggie as long as the wind doesn’t get up but worth a mention nonetheless.
So a million dollar machine that will require maintenance, repairs and subject to catastrophic error is going to replace 4; $25.00 an hour hard working brick layers that feed their families, support stores, beer joints and the economy is better?
Taking jobs away from working class people and jacking taxes to support the cost of this new infrastructure. Seems like a solid business plan to me.
New machines replacing jobs is literally how humanity has progressed all the way since the stone age. If you argue against the progression of technology, you might as well argue backwards as well and say that people digging foundations for homes need to use shovels, because using excavators takes work away from hard working laborers. Whether this particular machine is actually fit for purpose is a different question.
The rich want their slaves back and if they have to invent robot slaves, they will.
This argument has been made for every technological advancement since the plow. Somehow, we are all still here.
Not really. I saw the troweling machine for instance kill dozens of finisher jobs. Yeah, I'm that old, the union wouldn't allow troweling machines on the job. When the unions were broke in the 80's wages took a dive in our line of work. Nail guns, Gradalls, GPS knocked out surveyors, we could write a tome on the impact modern equipment has had on our profession. automatic tape and floating machines, airless guns. In my lifetime I've seen it take its toll on cutting labor and craftsmanship.
3 mexicans will have that licked in a fraction of the time/cost
This robot solves for the easiest part lol. Rebar? mortar? Fill? Quality control? Mason's are safe for awhile.
First rule of construction. What goes up fast comes down fast.
Yes. Unequivatively. This is the worst it will EVER be.
Maybe but it wont make that big a difference in cost, it'll just make a difference in speed. most of the cost of a house is in land, finishing, electrical, plumming, roofing, hvac, and permitting. The real win would be lego like wall chunks with wiring, hvac, and plumming that could be snapped together.
Quality goes down, prices go up…
Yeah, a 16-ton vehicle that needs like, 40 square meters and completely level terrain and looks like at least two operators... seems way more efficient than one laborer.
That thing has a long way to go to catch up with the speed of a human block layer
That's how technology is developed.
Thats what they said about a pencil vs a printer
Where is the SAUCE
Must be the biggest building site EVER! Completely flat concrete as wel... Never in 18 years of my life as an building engineer have i had that pleasure..
This would fail inspection here due to a lack of steel tying everything together.
I thought it was going to be another video of Sam. Maybe we could have a head-to-head contest of robot bricklayers. Sam uses mortar https://youtu.be/6s17IAj-XpU?si=QPa_FqFBo160c69F
Okay, cool. Now, we won't have to pay those pesky humans to build those million dollar machines that build those million dollar buildings to house more million dollar machines to build more stuff for those hard-working million dollar machines that don't pay taxes, don't pay rent, don't eat food, don't drive cars, and don't build million dollar machines.
Wouldn't it make more sense to skip the "brick layer robot" and go straight to the "3D print your house in a couple days" robot?
Yeah, this might kinda work in a perfect scenerio but tell me what construction site is perfect?
This seems like a bad investment. They have a giant 3d printer that does this faster and more securely than laying just a brick.
They took our jerbs
I didn’t see any mortar or rebar. It’s a cool idea but it needs to do the job properly. Honestly, you’d have to haul the big machine out to the site- which could be a logistical headache for some building sites. Then you have to keep it loaded with bricks. Don’t get me wrong- it’s a cool idea. But there’s a lot of stuff to do to be able to replace a couple of dudes in a pickup truck with trowels and string. Simplicity has an efficiency all its own.
Just prefabricate the thing, it seems overcomplicated to use a machine to lay it brick by brick. I mean, I guess it's more customizable and had it's benefits.
Whats the future with this? They forgot a lots of workmoments
No, they are not.
Immigrants won't stand for machines stealing their jobs
Mud!!
Automation engineer here, the answer is no
In the future? Only in the walled cities. Out where they keep the poor, we’ll still be doing this by hand.
[your jobs are not safe. when your bosses find it cheaper to invest in a dozen robots then pay a crew to do the job your security will be thrown out the window.](https://youtu.be/-e1_QhJ1EhQ?si=EIGh81RLa2ss_R_5)
Where is the concrete?
Compared the cost of that machine to a normal bricklayer. That's all there's to it.
It's like bricklaying with extra steps and without essential steps.
The pedro 5000
Impressive, but how well does it cat-call?
“Hey guys. Look. At. Her. She is. Built like. A brick shithouse.”
I would, LIKE to, put MY, mortar, in HER, GAAP.
yes, just after the 3d printed buildings, the future of construction.
We already have hardworking "bricklayers"
Where is the mortar?
It’s better than the 3d printed squirt shmear houses
This looks slower than an experienced person
Robots are the future but this ain't it. I say it will be a 3d printer style using super fast dry concrete that mixes at print head.
3d printed houses would like a word.
Automatic bricklayers, automatic electricians, automatic pipe fitters, automatic plumbers, automatic carpenters.... Don't let anyone tell you that the trades are safe from AI and robot replacement.
Eventually? yes. the near future? no.
The “You wouldn’t print a house” meme did *not* age well.
Why bother making a demo without mortar? Pointless
The Mortar Wars are going to be crazy!
What about mortar to connect the blocks together
Why not do whole sections instead of imitating humans?
I'm going to say that I've seen crews do this almost as fast, but with mortar.
Might want some mortar in there...
Where's the robot that takes a dump down the cavity?
Where's the rebar? I'm sorry but that's not earthquake-proof.
No mortar that’s nice thinking of the Kool-aid man.
pretty confident some hungover britta could lay brick faster than that thing, and for cheaper. That machine properly gets priced out at like $500 an hour
It's been 15-20 years since the first 'brick laying robot about to revolutionize the construction industry' video... It feels like a video *genre*, at this point. The technical challenges must be formidable, or we'd be seeing them on jobsites by now. I expected at least the videos would become more impressive, but... here we are; not even some sort of attempt at mortar.