Construction workers being replaced by AI robot bricklayers
Posted 68 days ago
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Working all day in the hot sun, bending your back and knees with every brick, hands raw from mortar.
Not exactly a career on most young people's dream list.
That's where Monumental comes in with its robot bricklayers that might just save the construction industry and a spine or two in the process.
Monumental's bricklaying robots are agile, artificial intelligence-powered machines that navigate construction sites like self-driving cars. They work in teams of three. One grabs bricks, another fetches mortar and the third, the star of the show, lays them down with precision.
It does this with two tower cranes that allow it to lay bricks from the ground level up to the top of a building's ground floor. For higher floors, the robot is able to drive onto a scissor lift that raises it up.
Then, the bricklayer robot deposits the mortar and lays the bricks autonomously. The process still needs a human mason for pointing, mortar smoothing and wall tie installation.
Monumental’s robots are much more affordable than conventional ones, costing only $25,000 per unit. But Monumental does not sell its robots; it sells its brick-laying services. It charges by the brick, just like human masons in Europe, and at a similar rate.
It also provides a human mason to supervise the robots and handle the tasks they cannot do. However, Monumental's bricklaying robots can work faster than humans by forming swarms, which is not feasible with the human labor shortage.... (Read more)
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