ᐅ Masonry Construction with the FBR Hadrian X Robot

Schimi1791 schrieb:

That’s not what I meant…
To keep it brief: Both my mother (10 years ago) and my father (2 years ago) passed away at home after long illnesses, and my sister and I were there with them. This was only possible because of strong family support. We reduced our working hours accordingly to be there for our parents.

I never claimed that technology can’t be helpful. Without the appropriate technology, for example, intensive care as we know it wouldn’t exist. Still, in my opinion, interpersonal interaction should not be replaced by too much technology.

Why am I being accused here of having little knowledge about the subject? We don’t know each other that well…
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But since this is about bricklaying robots, I’ll end the off-topic discussion here.

Because you’re just repeating talking points from casual conversations, and it sounds like stories from relatives or caregivers without having looked behind the scenes.

Not everything will ever be managed solely by robots. However, easing the workload for basic care, for example, must be handled electrically or by robots. In the future, there will be collaboration between robots and real people. The alternative would be more deaths or under-served patients due to a shortage of skilled workers.

Acof1978 schrieb:

In the future, it will be a collaboration between robots and real people.

And it is already the present that humans and machines with robotic intelligence work together. The better this cooperation works, the less we notice it. A car with parking assist or adaptive cruise control already contains robotics. An automated container port has become normal for us. Agricultural machinery operates with centimeter-precise GPS-supported sensors; the operator is now partly on board only for legal reasons.
In construction and other industries with less structured and controllable environments, automation is accelerating as precise sensors become more affordable. I find this exciting and see it as creating more opportunities rather than causing harm. Every development carries risks. The risk of stagnation is significantly higher.

11ant schrieb:

It’s important to consider overlap dimensions, which is usually the mason’s responsibility. However, errors that result in gaps (often called “pocket mistakes”) typically occur at the planning stage—specifically when the planner deviates from the standard dimensions in a way that can’t be corrected by cutting bricks without violating those overlap requirements. This is an aspect—returning to the topic—that doesn’t affect the concrete-spraying robot but unfortunately affects the bricklaying robot just as much as an inexperienced mason or their temporary replacement, the freelance subcontractor 🙂

This is exactly where I see the advantage: thanks to the precise brick-by-brick planning, there are no more gap mistakes.

hanghaus2000 schrieb:

That’s exactly where I see the advantage. With precise brick-by-brick planning, there are no more sloppy gaps.

The collaboration is similar, for example, in automotive manufacturing. Welding and cutting work is carried out much faster and more precisely – also without fatigue. However, almost every construction site is different.
That said, (currently) every robot is only as ‘smart’ as the person behind it.

hanghaus2000 schrieb:

That's exactly where I see the advantage: with brick-precise planning, there are no more sloppy gaps.

Advantage of what or whom? Avoiding sloppy gaps in planning does not require complicated high-tech algorithms that only a robot brain could remember: dividing each meter into eight equal steps should be manageable even for a special needs student, so an ordinary Homo sapiens 1.0 can do it without any advanced high-definition plugin like a diploma or something ;-)

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