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General => General Discussion & Topics => General Discussion => Topic started by: deestafford on June 27, 2015, 07:42:49 AM
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This morning I heard about a robotic bricklaying machine called Hadrain built by an Austrailian. It can lay 1000 bricks an hour which works out to about one every four seconds, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It can build a house in two days. I tried to find a video of it on YouTube and couldn't; however, I did find an article about it in "Tech Times."
The inventor hopes to have it on the market within a year or so. He says it's not to replace workers as much as it is to fill a gap created by not enough people going into the bricklaying profession.
While I'm rambling on about laying brick, I saw a picture not long ago of a machine that lays down the bricks in a herringbone pattern on streets. Bricks are fed into a hopper and they come out on the ground in the pattern on the other end.
Dee
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I couldn't find a video either. Here is a link to some more information.
For me the potential value of this invention is NOT to replace bricklayers, but to potentially provide a rapid and efficient way to provide support for disaster areas - floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, etc...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3140546/Meet-robot-BUILDER-Fully-automated-bricklaying-machine-create-entire-house-just-two-days.html
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http://youtu.be/kXJbNY6-ejM
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Wow - even the speaker sounds like a robot - do you think that was done on purpose?
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They can say whatever they want, but the purpose of this is to replace skilled labor. A crew of good bricklayers is just as fast.
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So when everybody's job has been replaced by robots working 24/7, who will have money to buy the homes and other products these robots make? Just saying.....