Hang up your trowels brickies, the machines are coming

[^woody^]

Robotic bricklayers are on their way

www.technologyreview.com/news/540916/robots-lay-three-times-as-many-bricks-as-construction-workers

 

[noseall]

About bloody time!
Not the neatest looking brickwork though is it. And there is a large input of labour too.

 

[clive12345]

It looks better than the plastering machine .

 

[geraldthehamster]

" It can also bump bricks in or out by about half an inch, to create a textured look to a wall face." Sounds like one of my walls

 

[noseall]

Does the machine recognise when a brick is the wrong way up or whether it is chipped or imperfect?

 

[tony1851]

This isn't new; a robot was developed in this country 50 years ago;

http://www.construction-manager.co.uk/news/1960s-bric2klaying-ro3bot-disco4vered-pathe/

In any case, 1200 bricks per day is nothing to write home about. In the early 1900s when Westinghouse was
building their huge works at Trafford Park, they brought in US experts to teach our brickies to lay 1500 - 2000
bricks a day.

 

[kazuya]

is there also a brick acid machine for cleaning the faces up after?

 

[^woody^]

These are all the same arguments they made in Nottingham in 1812, about the jumper knitting machines, and the later about the horseless carriage.

Judgement day cannot be stopped, only postponed

 

[tony1851]

These are all the same arguments they made in Nottingham in 1812, about the jumper knitting machines, and the later about the horseless carriage.

Judgement day cannot be stopped, only postponed

Agreed, but machines like that will have a fairly limited application - as they say, large areas of wall on bigger commercial projects.

At the other end of the scale, maybe in a few years time small-time builders will be able to hire smaller versions from HSS?

 

[kazuya]

These are all the same arguments they made in Nottingham in 1812, about the jumper knitting machines, and the later about the horseless carriage.

Judgement day cannot be stopped, only postponed

they used acid to clean the jumpers?

 

[angelboy]

I love the block paving laying machine.