Robotic Bricklayer Can Build A House in Two Days Yes, robots are taking over a worrisome number of jobs, but it like my Uncle Murray used to say ” don™t worry, you can always get work as a bricklayer.

Oops, check that. An Australian engineer has developed an industrial-sized brick-laying robot that can put down hundreds of bricks per hour, 24 hours a day, with superhuman precision.

The giant robot is named Hadrian, after the Roman empire who assembled a massive defensive wall in northern England to keep out formidable Scottish highlanders. (Good policy, that.) Engineer Marc Pivac put more than a decade of research and development into the system, which he now shopping around to potential commercial partners.

Hadrian begins by using computer-aided design (CAD) to determine the precise placement of every brick in a given structure ” to within one hundredth of an inch. Hadrian then cuts its own individual bricks and shuttles them along the articulated arm of a 28-meter-long telescopic boom.

An automated mechanism at the end of the crane arm then places the bricks individually, sealing each with mortar. By automating the loading, cutting, routing and placing ” and working around -the-clock ” Picav says Hadrian can complete a standard house structure within two days.

The Hadrian robot is all-electric, too, and designed to minimize greenhouse gas emissions. Pivac new company, FastBrick Robotics, recently posted an animated video of Hadrian in action.