Robot bricklayer can build a whole house in two days
Hadrian the robot bricklayer can build a whole house in
two days
Robot could be put to work 24 hours a day, seven days a
week, building houses
By Andrew Griffin Friday 26 June 2015
An Australian engineer has built a robot that can build
houses in two hours, and could work every day to build houses for people.
Human housebuilders have to work for four to six weeks to
put a house together, and have to take weekends and holidays. The robot can
work much more quickly and doesn’t need to take breaks.
Hadrian could take the jobs of human bricklayers. But its
creator, Mark Pivac, told PerthNow that it was a response to the lack of
available workers — the average age of the industry is getting much higher, and
the robot might be able to fill some of that gap.
“People have been laying bricks for about 6000 years and
ever since the industrial revolution, they have tried to automate the
bricklaying process,” Pivac told PerthNow, which first reported his creation.
But despite the thousands of years of housebuilding, most bricklaying is still
done by hand.
Hadrian works by laying 1000 bricks an hour, letting it
put up 150 houses a year.
It takes a design of the house and then works out where
all of the bricks need to go, before cutting and laying each of them. It has a
28-foot arm, which is used to set and mortar the brick, and means that it
doesn’t need to move during the laying.
Pivac will now work to commercialise the robot, first in
West Australia but eventually globally.
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