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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: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday January 24 2018, @04:04PM (4 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Wednesday January 24 2018, @04:04PM (#627195)

    then you can always pay someone else to do it.

    With what? My boomer parents with dual incomes and responsibly managed retirement accounts at 70+ years of age barely afford to pay a cleaning lady a couple of days a week.

    What percentage of the population can afford to pay other people to do anything? The Brady Bunches don't have live-in maids anymore, you've got to move into the upper 5% to start to think about that level of service. In a way, this is a good thing, in another - it's really not, because instead of half the world being able to afford to pay a person or two to help them out, we've got 1% of the world who can afford to hire 50 or more people, and 95% of the world who can't afford to hire even 1.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday January 24 2018, @05:16PM (3 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday January 24 2018, @05:16PM (#627230) Journal
    And here you go making excuses.

    What percentage of the population can afford to pay other people to do anything?

    100%. For example, they do so by pooling their resources via government. A private organization doing the same thing is not that hard.

    • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday January 24 2018, @05:57PM (2 children)

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Wednesday January 24 2018, @05:57PM (#627255)

      pooling their resources via government

      And here I thought you thought government was ineffective.

      When 99% of the population pools their resources via government, and the other 1% out-resources the remaining 99 and mostly takes over government as well, where does that take us? Right where we're headed.

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      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday January 24 2018, @06:18PM (1 child)

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday January 24 2018, @06:18PM (#627265) Journal

        When 99% of the population pools their resources via government, and the other 1% out-resources the remaining 99 and mostly takes over government as well, where does that take us?

        The smart person would ask what did I do wrong? The first step was in giving your government a marketable amount of power with which to distribute wealth to the "1%".

        • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday January 24 2018, @07:05PM

          by JoeMerchant (3937) on Wednesday January 24 2018, @07:05PM (#627295)

          what did I do wrong? The first step was in giving your government a marketable amount of power with which to distribute wealth to the "1%".

          First, I was barely out of high-school when Ronnie Ray-Gun's goon squad rolled out trickle-down theory into the economic policies, so I guess I'll have to blame my forefathers for letting that particular pendulum swing on my generation.

          Second, I believe if you look back, more deeply historically, government has been an instrument limiting the power of the wealthy - anti-trust legislation, labor protections, etc. It has been the wealthy's successful overtaking of government policies in the last 40 years that needs to reach apogee and start the pendulum swinging back.

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