This Bricklaying Robot Can Build a House in Two Days
25th December 2015
In a presentation from Fastbrick Robotics, which made Hadrian, they estimate that paying for the labor from skilled human bricklayers adds tens of billions of dollars in cost to home construction costs each year. Hadrian isn’t just a robot that does a cool job, it’s a robot that actively replaces human workers.
In honor of Hadrian’s fast work, here’s a video from a Spec Mix Bricklayer Championship. The fastest human bricklayer in this video set 743 bricks in one hour, or about three quarters the speed of the Hadrian robot.
And yet another skilled trade is doomed by automation.