Posted on 07/27/2016 2:19:10 PM PDT by Red Badger
Building a house by robot. Image: Supplied.
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Fastbrick Robotics, an ASX-listed company based in Perth, has created a robot brick layer, a form of 3D printing which can create the shell of a house without being touched by human hands.
The Hadrian 105 robot, named after the Roman emperor who built a wall in ancient Britain, has hit a bricklaying speed of 225 standard brick equivalents per hour, or about half a day’s work for a top human bricklayer.
To prove it, the company released a time lapse video, showing the robot at work. Here’s the robot, doing everything with one arm, laying over-sized bricks, following a laser guided system:
The demonstration was designed to ensure that all of the complex characteristics of a brick house can be handled by the Hadrian 105 robot.
The vision at Fastbrick Robotics is to create a machine which can complete the brickwork of a home in three days at lower cost and higher quality than traditional methods.
The company has started building the next prototype, Hadrian X, which will have a capacity of up to 1,000 standard brick equivalents an hour via a 30 metre boom, with everything being delivered to a building site on the back of a truck.
That is double the daily output of a top bricklayer in just one hour.
“We are a frontier technology company, and we’re one step closer to bringing fully automated, end-to-end 3D printing brick construction into the mainstream,” says Fastbrick CEO Mike Pivac.
“We’re very excited to be taking the world-first technology we proved with the Hadrian 105 demonstrator and manufacturing a state-of-the-art machine.”
The bricklaying market in Australia, UK, US and Canada is worth about $12 billion.
Fastbrick Robotics says the competitive advantages with its system include savings in time and costs plus better quality and safety of construction.
The housing boom has pushed up the cost of bricklayers in Australia. In Sydney, the cost of laying 1000 bricks is about $1500 and heading to $2000.
At 300 to 500 bricks a day, a brickie can earn between $600 and $1000.
Brickworks Ltd, in its latest half year profit results, said: “The strong demand on the east coast is resulting in trade shortages.”
Fastbrick listed on the ASX in November in a reverse takeover of DMY Capital. An oversubscribed IPO raised $5.75 million at 2 cents a share.
It’s currently trading at 2.2 cents but has been as high as 3.6 cents.
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We need a bunch of them down on the southern border. Send the bill to Mexico.
Wait until it joins the union. It will want 15 minute oil breaks every hour.
Lol
Illegals soon be out of a job..............
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Maybe we can use this to build that wall? And have Mexico pay for it?
I know of a huge wall that needs building.
We should arrest all illegals and have them build the wall before they are deported. The faster you work the sooner you go home................
I never saw any mortar.
Equally awesome and SCARY! ~ Is there ANYTHING robots won’t do?
The mortar would be delivered via a tube along with the brick.................kinda like toothpaste coming out of the tube..............
I don’t see any mortar. Was this just a demo of placing the bricks without actually building the structure?
The 3D printing of houses and other structures is the future.
Ask for a raise.
Take a break.
Call in sick.
Come in late.
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What, Aussies don’t use mortar?
“I never saw any mortar.”
It uses construction adhesive, you can see it applied at about 0:35 in the video. There are obviously other steps to get to a wall without gaps between bricks.
It’ll be interesting to see how this company does, I’m sure there’ll be competition from some of the biggies like Caterpillar.
Brick Road Laying Machine Compilation
https://youtu.be/sxhDGuiqJI8
Where is the cement?
Not a very effective vid without the mortar. Nothing more than a standard pallet stacking robot.
Should have at least simulated the mortar.
It would be delivered via a tube along with each brick...............
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