The following report is by Interesting Engineering:
The giant machine is in the U.S. and once unloaded from the ship and cleared of customs, the next-generation Hadrian X will be transported to a facility in Fort Myers, Florida, according to reports.
The company claims that the next-generation Hadrian X is designed with distributed control architecture, leading to a highly reliable system which allows for individual modules to be customised, repaired and swapped efficiently.
Lengthened 32 meter telescopic boom arm provides further reach than its predecessor, enabling construction of walls three stories high from the roadside as well as the ability to lay blocks within 50mm of existing walls, according to the company.
The machine has a unique optimisation software that converts wall sketches into block positions, and minimises handling and waste of block products to improve efficiency of residential construction.
Every supplier throughout the homebuilding process from the architect to the final trades will work from a single source of data, enabling parallel manufacture of materials, according to the FBR.
The machine is designed to be able to lay at speeds of up to 500 blocks per hour (equating to up to ~120m2 per hour) and has the potential to complete both the external and internal walls of a standard double brick house in a single day, according to FBR.
The machine will undergo an assessment to prove its readiness for site acceptance testing and then will begin a demonstration program in Florida.
According to FBR, the next-generation Hadrian X unit will undertake site acceptance testing at the facility, consisting of a test build outdoors with the same requirements as the previously completed factory acceptance testing, plus the inclusion of some bond beam blocks and an inspection from an independent structural engineer to confirm that the constructed walls of the test build are consistent with the design and meet applicable building standards.
Completion of the site acceptance testing will trigger a $600,000 payment by CRH Ventures to FBR, and will trigger the commencement of the demonstration program. The demonstration program requires FBR to construct the external walls of between five and ten single-storey houses utilising the next-generation.
The Hadrian X doesn’t apply mortar between the bricks while placing them. Once the wall is completed, a strong construction adhesive is applied to bond the individual bricks in place, and the company claims that this is stronger than old-school mortar construction, according to The Robot Report.
For working with precision in outdoor environments, Hadrian X uses FBR’s Dynamic Stabilisation Technology, which delivers accuracy previously only achievable with indoor robots, paving the way for robotic automation outdoors.
Traditionally robotics has been used indoors in controlled, stable and static environments to perform repetitious tasks, such as car manufacturing. Outdoors, robots are exposed to unpredictable and continuously changing interference such as wind, vibrations, altering machine motions and thermal variation, according to FBR.
“I invented DST to solve the problem of stabilising a robot at the end of a long moving boom, originally for an application that didn’t have enough demand to justify its development cost,” said Mark Pivac, Chief Technology Officer and primary inventor of FBR’s technology.
“A decade later, a building boom converged with a shortage of bricklayers, driving the cost of laying a brick up to $1.25. I knew my idea’s time had come.”
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
FBR is not the only robot performing brick masonry. Other startups are utilizing their own unique robots in all different shapes and sizes.
I reported earlier today that more and more Gen-Z’ers are turning to trades and blue-collar work to secure a more solid income and not have to deal with the radically shifting white collar workspace. I do not believe that these robots will fully replace blue collar work, at least not for a while yet, but this is still a growing trend that demonstrates robots will try to replace and outmode traditional labor.
Ecclesiastes 10:18 By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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HUMANS ELIMINATING HUMANS, WHO IS GOING TO BUY ALL THESE ROBOT HOMES, ETC WHEN NO ONE HAS THE FUNDS BECAUSE THEY ARE ON LOW-BALL MONTHLY GOVERNMENT SLAVE PAYMENTS THAT COME WITH CONDITIONS? THIS TYPE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SIMILAR ANTI-HUMAN TECH WILL SELF-DESTRUCT THE COMPANIES THAT MAKE THIS JUNK DUE TO DIMINISHING CUSTOMER BASE AND MORE HOMELESS CAMPS AND FLOP HOUSES THAT THE REMAINING DECENT PEOPLE CAN AFFORD. THEN AGAIN, THE DETENTION CAMPS BUILT OR BEING BUILT IN EVERY STATE SHOULD DO THE JOB, RIGHT? MORE LIKELY THESE “CONSTRUCTS” WILL BE RENTAL ONLY IF THE FUNDS TO PAY ARE AVAILABLE. HUMAN GREED AND AVARICE AT WORK,
The Jetsons was supposed to just be a cartoon . . .
Hahaha!!! It’s so hilariously slow.
They must be so embarrassed whoever created these brick bots.
I personally have seen men lay faster bricks and getting the job done within just one hour , what this bot would take 10 hours to do.
*Face palm*
Is this what the Tower of Babel construction looked like?