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) by FatPhil on Sunday June 28 2015, @11:00AM
I don't want insulation outside my thermal mass when I'm trying to store heat in my walls before the long winter. And because I want as much heat in my walls as possible, I want them to start absorbing heat for as long as possible, that includes summer, so I would want the insulation on the inside whilst I'm harvesting heat. However, once autumn is here and my walls are a nett radiator, I do want that insulation outside the walls.
I appreciate I may be a special case, living in a cold climate in a residence which predates most posters' countries.
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