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Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Subject: Auto Bricklayer - coming to the US
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2023 at 9:31am

Auto Mobile Bricklayer

An Australian company has developed what it says is the “world’s first mobile robotic blocklaying system,” and it’s bringing it to market in the United States.

FBR’s Hadrian X truck-based robotic bricklayer has already built masonry brick homes and other buildings in Australia and plans to start doing the same in the U.S. in 2024. The https://www.equipmentworld.com/technology/article/15306241/video-boston-dynamics-robot-atlas-fetches-tools-for-worker" rel="nofollow - robot can lay more than 240 concrete masonry blocks per hour, the company reports, adding that the machine increases safety, requires fewer workers and reduces environmental impact. It can also build homes cheaper than conventional methods, FBR says.

(To watch the Hadrian X laying bricks, check out the videos at the end of this story.)

https://www.equipmentworld.com/construction-equipment/article/15659338/mobile-bricklaying-robot-hadrian-x-coming-to-us-video?utm_medium=email&utm_content=12-09-2023&utm_campaign=EQ_NL_Equipment+World+Weekly&utm_source=EQ_NL_Equipment+World+Weekly&ust_id=5f848f630ba30c50dca4762a9ae421a910cfcd2b&oly_enc_id=0563B7156245G0T" rel="nofollow - https://www.equipmentworld.com/construction-equipment/article/15659338/mobile-bricklaying-robot-hadrian-x-coming-to-us-video?utm_medium=email&utm_content=12-09-2023&utm_campaign=EQ_NL_Equipment+World+Weekly&utm_source=EQ_NL_Equipment+World+Weekly&ust_id=5f848f630ba30c50dca4762a9ae421a910cfcd2b&oly_enc_id=0563B7156245G0T

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Posted By: Lars(wi)
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2023 at 10:49am

No mortar?

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Posted By: FloydKS
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2023 at 11:31am

Yes, I was wondering that too. no mortar, no sticky together...

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Posted By: HudCo
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2023 at 12:06pm

lay alot of block and pay for alot of labor for the cost of that piece of machinery

Posted By: HudCo
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2023 at 12:31pm

i am sure some one has to spread the the morter and not get in the machines way, and what about morter consistacy and temp changes for those few seconds the block has to be held on the morter to stay plumb and leval. what a bout the mantiance to keep it acruatere their has to be alot of wear on pins and bushings at 200 movements per hour

Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2023 at 12:39pm

All your concerns are supposedly factored in to the programming and appears to use a special adhesive. It's only a matter of time where it becomes commonplace, given the declining supply of able bodied people willing to work a job like that. The real challenge will be the incorporation of mechanical, plumbing and electrical systems as block is set.
Read a recent article where a 3D printed house was demolished because it failed compression standards in the concrete mix. We have a ways to go

Posted By: bleeds orange
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2023 at 1:09pm

Great. Another reason for more people to not work. And no accountability.

Posted By: Walker
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2023 at 2:37pm

Stick that in yer Vegemite and waltz yer billybong mate.

Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2023 at 5:30pm

I haven't seen ANY concrete block walled around me in decades. They ALL form and pour. even then ,some can't get that right even with lasers ! Next door house was off 2", garage almost 6" !!! That wall was tore down,hauled away and redone. idiots...... 2nd time it was off an inch and a half in 24 feet.... Dang ancient pyramid builders did better !!!

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Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2023 at 7:56pm

I was hired to backfill a neighboring house ,
When I met the carpenters on site the block layer had put in 2 - 2x4 braces on the back wall inly in 45ft of wall .
After looking at the job I told carpenter before I backfilled it I wanted more bracing on back walls , end walls braced , and as it was a walkout front bracing at end of side walls.
Basement was 6" out of square , 3" height difference across the back wall , and the 2 end walls were 2" difference in height .
Next none of the block had been struck on joints from footing to top block .
Said I would backfill it but no closer than 1 ft from walls except for what cascaded in as I brought material up . Was sand so not that bad but I worried the full time about wall collapsing . (house is still standing)
Carpenter said worst block job he ever seen . I had to agree !
Did another job where blocks were dry set with a mastic bead , then before backfill a membrane material was applied with a mastic to bond blocks to each other .

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"Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

Posted By: scott
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2023 at 10:27am

Is an auto-brick layer any different than an automatic burger maker? Employers cannot afford to hire people or can cut their costs by getting rid of the people.

Posted By: NEVER green
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2023 at 2:07pm

I did not see any mortar, or special adhesive. Even if some one was to slap the adhesive on the head joints the machine just drops the block straight down, it would literally scrape the head joint clean. What a joke.

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Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2023 at 3:23pm

Probably a dry fit for demonstration. Not supporting it but a sign of the times. My BIL farms 800 acres. Does not want either of his sons to pick up the torch. Common theme for parents I know. Encouraging kids to avoid trade jobs

Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2023 at 5:21pm

says the block has adhesive applied, could also jsut be a demo, without. I guess there will be some PO'd union mortar forkers, out there... Oh well too bad, so sad.

But can it do this?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bWHNcanKdOY" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bWHNcanKdOY

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Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 13 Dec 2023 at 7:20pm

Thats real funny Dave--