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

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: 1) by Sulla on Tuesday January 23 2018, @04:15PM (1 child)

    by Sulla (5173) on Tuesday January 23 2018, @04:15PM (#626601) Journal

    I am more concerned about the ability to find an automatic stapler that actually works..\

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday January 23 2018, @04:39PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 23 2018, @04:39PM (#626617) Journal
    The thing is, even if we're charitable, and assume the $40 electric stapler works perfectly (we can always spend more for the higher quality staplers, if it doesn't - there is some level of spending for which the staplers will be reliable), we still end up with a costly solution to a simple, occasional need. And what happens when you've dug out that stapler and the batteries need to be replaced (oops, you just ran out of batteries too!) or the AC adapter is lost? Cost of automation is not just money.