#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 worry, you can always get work as a bricklayer. Oops, check that. An Australian engineer has developed an industrial-sized bricklaying 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 n
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