>The world’s first bricklayer robot that’s capable of safely working outdoors in uncontrolled environments has arrived in the United States. Hadrian X can build the walls of a house in situ in as little as a day.
>The giant machine is in the U.S. and once unloaded from the ship and cleared of customs, the next-generation Hadrian X will be transported to a facility in Fort Myers, Florida, according to reports.
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Slylok on
If I were to use a robot to build a house I’d rather use one of those giant 3D printer ones.
OmilKncera on
Half of me… „Hell yes!“
The other half … „Oh no!“
thonis2 on
The first? There are at least 3 dutch companies that have build one and are using them to build walls of houses here. Also they are the size of 3 yeti cooler boxes. Not a freaking crane arm like this.
This is possibly the most interesting part. I would like to know more about this adhesive method. Since it is being built in Florida and not California I would like to know more about the earthquake resistance of adhesive vs. mortar. Thank you
hollow_bagatelle on
Cant wait to hear about how associated costs are drastically cut thanks to this new technology only for resulting products and services to strangely get more and more expensive…
_73r0_ on
Great! So now that construction costs are sinking, housing will finally get cheaper too, right? Right? Right…?
ThePsychicDefective on
Unionize now while you still have time.
Literally, Tenant’s Union, Labor Union, Craftsman’s Union, any Union but a police Union.
Terrible-Sir742 on
This company has been tooting the same prototype for years and so far nothing really came from it, apart from maybe sucking in a few naive investors.
darkeyes13 on
Gosh, now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a while! For some reason I thought Hadrian X was already in the US market. Clearly, I remembered wrong. I thought it was a cool concept when I heard about it in circa 2017.
EmperorOfApollo on
It should be called a „brick stacker robot“ since it doesn’t apply mortar.
„Hadrian X doesn’t apply mortar between the bricks while placing them. Once the wall is completed, a strong construction adhesive is applied to bond the individual bricks in place.“
BackgroundResult on
A useful robot in a construction setting would need to be multimodal and have more than one function. While I am aware of some bricklaying startups in robotics, I don’t believe this is a viable application necessarily. It’s great that there are robots to do dangerous jobs like washing windows of high buildings. Certainly in around 10 years we’ll have robots that will be more useful in construction settings, or small modular houses that for all intents and purposes build themselves.
However currently it’s really hard to build a robot for a specific task even in the construction industry. Robots require more intelligence and better software to get to the point where they would be scalable in this industry. In 2024 we are nowhere near that level.
SpaceLord_Katze on
Sorry, not the first masonry robot. I don’t have the sauce on hand, but the first one was like in 2015 and was first used in Cranberry PA.
WorkingYou2280 on
Hmm, yes sure as long as the ground is prepared, and someone can level and compact the dirt, add gravel, pour the slab etc etc. All this thing does is stack blocks, it hardly even seems worth it.
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MilhouseLaughsLast on
I don’t think its boosting speed, its boosting profits. I used to work for a masonry crew, around 10 people, and we would regularly build a house a day during the height of the housing bubble.
atlanticam on
the title makes it seem like it came from outer space
farticustheelder on
When did cinderblock construction become bricklaying?
Go have a look at brick houses that are 100+ years old and you’ll see the old master brick layers knew a trick or seven.
BTW, shouldn’t a bricklaying bot look more like Tesla’s dancin‘ bot?
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>The world’s first bricklayer robot that’s capable of safely working outdoors in uncontrolled environments has arrived in the United States. Hadrian X can build the walls of a house in situ in as little as a day.
>The giant machine is in the U.S. and once unloaded from the ship and cleared of customs, the next-generation Hadrian X will be transported to a facility in Fort Myers, Florida, according to reports.
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If I were to use a robot to build a house I’d rather use one of those giant 3D printer ones.
Half of me… „Hell yes!“
The other half … „Oh no!“
The first? There are at least 3 dutch companies that have build one and are using them to build walls of houses here. Also they are the size of 3 yeti cooler boxes. Not a freaking crane arm like this.
Quote: “The Hadrian X doesn’t apply mortar between the bricks while placing them. Once the wall is completed, a strong construction adhesive is applied to bond the individual bricks in place, and the company claims that this is stronger than old-school mortar construction, according to [The Robot Report.](https://www.therobotreport.com/1st-hadrian-x-bricklaying-robot-arrives-in-us/#:~:text=FBR%20is%20developing%20an%20automated,structure%20of%20the%20robot%20arm.)”
This is possibly the most interesting part. I would like to know more about this adhesive method. Since it is being built in Florida and not California I would like to know more about the earthquake resistance of adhesive vs. mortar. Thank you
Cant wait to hear about how associated costs are drastically cut thanks to this new technology only for resulting products and services to strangely get more and more expensive…
Great! So now that construction costs are sinking, housing will finally get cheaper too, right? Right? Right…?
Unionize now while you still have time.
Literally, Tenant’s Union, Labor Union, Craftsman’s Union, any Union but a police Union.
This company has been tooting the same prototype for years and so far nothing really came from it, apart from maybe sucking in a few naive investors.
Gosh, now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a while! For some reason I thought Hadrian X was already in the US market. Clearly, I remembered wrong. I thought it was a cool concept when I heard about it in circa 2017.
It should be called a „brick stacker robot“ since it doesn’t apply mortar.
„Hadrian X doesn’t apply mortar between the bricks while placing them. Once the wall is completed, a strong construction adhesive is applied to bond the individual bricks in place.“
A useful robot in a construction setting would need to be multimodal and have more than one function. While I am aware of some bricklaying startups in robotics, I don’t believe this is a viable application necessarily. It’s great that there are robots to do dangerous jobs like washing windows of high buildings. Certainly in around 10 years we’ll have robots that will be more useful in construction settings, or small modular houses that for all intents and purposes build themselves.
However currently it’s really hard to build a robot for a specific task even in the construction industry. Robots require more intelligence and better software to get to the point where they would be scalable in this industry. In 2024 we are nowhere near that level.
Sorry, not the first masonry robot. I don’t have the sauce on hand, but the first one was like in 2015 and was first used in Cranberry PA.
Hmm, yes sure as long as the ground is prepared, and someone can level and compact the dirt, add gravel, pour the slab etc etc. All this thing does is stack blocks, it hardly even seems worth it.
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I don’t think its boosting speed, its boosting profits. I used to work for a masonry crew, around 10 people, and we would regularly build a house a day during the height of the housing bubble.
the title makes it seem like it came from outer space
When did cinderblock construction become bricklaying?
Go have a look at brick houses that are 100+ years old and you’ll see the old master brick layers knew a trick or seven.
BTW, shouldn’t a bricklaying bot look more like Tesla’s dancin‘ bot?