One of the oldest skilled jobs in the world may now be done by robots. Mark Pivac, an engineer from Perth, Australia built a robotic bricklayer that can lay the brick walls for a house in two days. The bot is capable of laying 1,000 bricks an hour and it can basically do this 24 hours a day. It could potentially build the brickwork for 150 homes in a year.
Hadrian the robot is named after the famous Roman wall. It works from a 3D computer-aide design program that pinpoints through its algorithms, the location of each and every brick going into the house. Because the brickbot has an telescoping arm with a reach of 28 meters, it’s able to work from one location on the home site.
There are two ways to look at this development: Either the end of a labor-intensive, back-breaking job for a human, or one more job a robot will take from people. What is your take on this?
“WORLD, meet your new bricklayer.”
Source: MARA FOX, PerthNow
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