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The New Robotics Technology Set to Change the Construction Industry

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday January 23 2018, @02:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the building-a-more-robotic-tomorrow dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Hadrian is not the first large-scale industrial robot that can complete a whole build from start to finish. It's not even the first outdoor construction robot.

What's remarkable is it's both. As Mike told me, "Anything you can build inside a factory ... we're getting really, really good at. Trouble is, nothing's happening outdoors."

That's because environmental factors like wind and temperature variations can make life difficult for robots outdoors.

Most robots can't adjust to small, quick changes in wind or temperature fast enough to keep up.

That's fine if little wobbles won't make a big difference. But when you're working on something as large-scale as building a house and a light breeze could lead to bricks being laid way out of position, it can get very dangerous.

So up till now, any robot building on such large scales had to be indoors in minutely controlled environments.

Hadrian has overcome this problem using the precision technology Dynamic Stabilisation Technology (DST). DST was developed in Perth by Mike's cousin, Mark Pivac, back in the early 2000s. The computer program measures environmental factors an astounding 2000 times per second, then accounts for them in real time.

If robots replace the construction workers, who then will wolf whistle?

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday January 23 2018, @04:04PM (2 children)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Tuesday January 23 2018, @04:04PM (#626594) Journal

    The difficult stuff is when some twig or animal somehow gets in the way of the brick, or the brick breaks or is nonstandard shape, then what does the robot do? Does a programmer have to write code for all the different scenarios? Or some human helps/prompts the robot?

    Machine learn the shit out of everything, or even include "neuromorphic" processors in the robots. Teach one robot to do the task very well, and then copy and paste the sauce into every other robot. That way you get to kill the brogrammers and the bricklayers at the same time, and you get them to help you do it during the testing phase.

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23 2018, @05:08PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23 2018, @05:08PM (#626632)

    Then use the brogrammers and bricklayers in the foundation of the buildings. Am I right.