Hadrian the robot bricklayer can build a whole house in two days
Hadrian, il robot muratore
Partendo da un progetto 3D, l’unità robotica è in grado di costruire la struttura della casa in modo del tutto autonomo, in un tempo di circa due giorni.
Cristiano Ghidotti, 26 giugno 2015, 8:52
http://www.webnews.it/2015/06/26/hadrian-robot-muratore/
Robot could be put to work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, building houses
Friday 26 June 2015
An Australian engineer has built a robot that can build houses in two days, 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.
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“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.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/hadrian-the-robot-bric