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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?
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday January 24 2018, @12:33AM (1 child)
While true, it's also important to remember that Charles Dickens would have devoted his life to not-really-good poetry if he hadn't needed to earn a living writing short stories (and later novels), which his disliked doing (at least initially).
*Some* economic incentive is quite valuable. Too much is bad, and so is too little.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 3, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday January 24 2018, @12:56AM
Fair point, and I imagine the desire to have a bigger living space, in a nicer place, maybe with your own personal transportation to use, and more costly food and clothing, and even some shiny consumer gadgets, all should be good incentives to not just lay about only "doing the things you love."
We know some long-term "stay at home moms" and after a few years they all get the itch to get back out in the world and do things, be with people - which, in today's world mostly means: working some kind of job, even if it's just part-time. We've connected with some disabilities groups where they struggle with the welfare lifestyle, nobody wants it, but some don't have a physical choice... and, again, the answer for them is to get out and do something with their life, get a job that pays some kind of money - that feeling of appreciation that comes with a paycheck is a very effective anti-depressant. The biggest struggle in the disabled group is the messed up system that yanks back their benefits that they need to live at the first sign of them maybe starting to make a little money on their own - this is a free-market society and that money earned from the world isn't reliable at all, so rather than risk their "sure thing" poverty check that they need to live, they often opt-out of the paying work because re-instatement of benefits can take months, sometimes years.
In the U.S. we do have a social safety net, but it's (intentionally) quite difficult to use, and that difficulty often traps those who do end up using it.
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