An Australian engineer has built a robot that can build houses in two
hours[days -Ed.], and could work every day to build houses for people.Human housebuilders have to work for four to six weeks to put a house together, and have to take weekends and holidays. The robot can work much more quickly and doesn't need to take breaks.
Hadrian could take the jobs of human bricklayers. But its creator, Mark Pivac, told PerthNow that it was a response to the lack of available workers — the average age of the industry is getting much higher, and the robot might be able to fill some of that gap.
[...] Hadrian works by laying 1000 bricks an hour, letting it put up 150 houses a year.
It takes a design of the house and then works out where all of the bricks need to go, before cutting and laying each of them. It has a 28-foot arm, which is used to set and mortar the brick, and means that it doesn't need to move during the laying.
Throw in a brick-making bot and the stage is set for guerilla housing construction. Homelessness would become a thing of the past.
Apparently from: perthnow.com; a video is available on youtube.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2015, @04:39PM
This news story seems to be hype for the company to raise funds. Here is their presentation, [asx.com.au] which halfway through starts talking about an IPO. The date on that PDF is June 24th.
(Score: 4, Informative) by jmorris on Saturday June 27 2015, @05:48PM
Figures. As usual the summary alone was enough to call BS though. Yes it takes 4-6 weeks to build a house but little of that time is bricklaying. Unless that robot also levels ground, lays plumbing, pours concrete foundations, does roofing, electrical work, can lay carpet, etc. it isn't going to make nearly as much difference as they are hyping for the money from fools.
(Score: 2) by Alfred on Monday June 29 2015, @01:38PM