The Driverless Future of Construction Robotics
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Noah Ready-Campbell believes that the future of the construction industry lies in construction robotics, but it won’t look like a hard-hat-wearing C-3PO.
His company has developed a unique guidance system using AI that powers autonomous construction equipment. The system can be installed in off-the-shelf equipment from Caterpillar, John Deere, and other major manufacturers.
With advances like this, we could soon have a job site on which a single operator is operating up to 10 machines at a time, keeping projects moving around the clock. In doing so, a job that would have otherwise taken months could be completed in weeks.
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What do you think of this technology?
It wont really work it can deact like this rocks this dirt this is mud thear is a bulder in the ground and it can dig no more and really its only good for gaint open space its a waste of time beacuse people can move faster while opertaing but nice try giving it a go it will work with small machines like a chop saw on a remote but you will wait a hole day for something to be diged ther is a reason beacuse it just dosent work space and everything and cost and how much to run this stuff mattiance for manichinne and equiment you need to up keep is not going to be cheap at all
I also see this to up the cost more on jods sites just to mattiane all the equiment and what if it breaks now i need a guy to look at it dose not work
There the software for thAt so yes it will work very very soon with many countries working together USA China Europe India Japan etc.
Absolutely awesome
When this can be validated to reduce risk as they have been proving we can really start to re-imagine what design solutions are possible. Could you imagine coordinating 2 or more booms to hoist large custom-made structural members in perfect unison into place? Assuming semi-automatic solutions that extend existing design/engineering thinking and give more time and energy back to designers is the way forward. Who knows? Based on this type of AI it could feed machine learning to help us re-imagine areas where we have substantial waste and have been overlooking it for generations.
We at Mortenson have been partnered with Built for a few years now. For low dexterity work, like excavating a round hole in rural areas for wind turbines where we can't get skilled operators to these rural areas. We are using an excavator, compactor and a dozer, all three autonomously working together to dig, move earth and grade. When you think about it from a safety and bridging the gap of the growing shortage of skilled labor! This is not about removing humans from this work, it is repurposing these workers for smarter or higher dexterity work. PS. Many of the segments in this video are real Mortenson wind project sites. This is the future now!
How has your relationship been with Built Robotics since you wrote this comment? We are thinking about partnering with them. Do you have customers requesting this tech or have you found it beneficial in winning bids? Thank you
@@mrclm55customers don't request is. It's how you can land a contract for 200 turbine holes spread over a couple rural counties. Then if the owner ever goes to the site they see how it's done.
Obviously it's a good reputation move to introduce yourself and the tech so in thw future thwy know you can deliver. Say if something like a health emergency requires half the country to stay at home.
“Robots don’t automate jobs, they automate tasks”
Unfortunately, that’s the engineering perspective, not the business perspective. A business person looks at opportunity cost and if they don’t have a task in place for leftover workers then they let go of them instead of re-training. It’s the main disconnect that we see in the automated workforce.
Watch the video "Humans Need Not Apply" by CGP Grey
It's a fair point. And yet--if robots are replacing our jobs (and they are), why are there still more jobs than ever? After all, each of the excavators in its day replaced dozens of people with shovels or simpler tools, yet there's currently a shortage of construction workers. We actually did a separate video on this: czcams.com/video/jdNwFfQkFB4/video.html .
The problem is that people have depended on labor jobs for too long, however our technology and innovation is allowing us to progress faster, but in turn, requires smarter minds and more innovation. Therefore, education needs to be increased and people need to start learning problem-solving and critical thinking skills
Freethink Eric Lotze already beat me to it, but yes CGP Grey’s video addresses that point. There’re also the pre and post pandemic real unemployment rates to consider. I’m not even against automation, I’m just an ME student with factory worker parents who’s trying to be nuanced about this. There are some real concerns to be addressed and I’m not sure we have the answer yet.
@@freethink Ai is replacing people, and this is all 20+ years off, not tomorrow, but like climate change it slowly shows itself happening.
I don't know why your videos aren't more popular. I love the optimism. Very inspiring.
Glad it's hitting home for you! Keep spreading the good word and hopefully the channel will continue to grow--we're optimistic :).
_"we think of the robot as a force multiplier"_ - Yes, you've very good at only seeing things from the perspective that benefits you. This directly replaces operators, who train for years specifically to this job alone, it is NOT mundane, it is very complex. Just like autonomous haulage or supermarket self-checkouts, you'll have 1 operator overseeing multiple vehicles.
It's they way these guys try to dress it up that annoys me, lets face the fact that tech is here, its is amazing, it is progress but it will cause a problem of people being put out of work.
This technology could be used for terraforming. We know how to do it, the CCC did it in Arizona during the Great Depression with the Tucson Swales. Men and mules turned dust-bowl desert into oases that have lasted 90 years with no maintenance. Set up autonomous sun-powered machines in the west coast of each of the great deserts, and set them to work their way east. Let's figure out how to fix this world before we try to do it on mars.
more info seems interesting
Future looks awesome.
Agreed!
Yay less jobs😍
Really ????
This is one of your more interesting premises for a video as of lately.
Glad you liked it, thanks for watching!
The future is exciting!
Beautiful...
The prospects are mouth watering
The song at the beginning: valley of wolves - heroes
Thank you .
1:33 So Howard Wolowitz is still working on robots eh? Cool ;D
😆
This is awesome! Would be great if it can detect buried hydro/water/gas lines and maneuver accordingly!
Locate and program it in just like we've done for decades
This is awesome technology!
Well said. You can’t feel the dirt or utilities with a robot. So still gunna need operators for the finer things
I thought this video was going to be about workers remotely operating construction equipment. But I think this is just as cool or cooler because it involves AI.
How does one go from operating one of these machines to controlling many?
What is the Education path?
Liked this video...
Thanks, glad to hear!
Goosebumps
Will u pls do an episode for 3d printing and construction.
Definitely an interesting topic! Did you catch this one? czcams.com/video/XI_oVMIgu6w/video.html
We also wrote up an article recently: www.freethink.com/articles/3d-printed-house
Hurry we need this! 💕
Please do it fast
nice advert for Built Robotics. what about the _rest_ of the industry?
I just can’t help but think of all the people who work in construction losing their jobs
It's a reasonable concern. And yet--if robots are replacing our jobs (and they are), why are there still more jobs than ever? After all, each of the excavators in its day replaced dozens of people with shovels or simpler tools, yet there's currently a shortage of construction workers. We actually did a separate video on this: czcams.com/video/jdNwFfQkFB4/video.html .
@@freethink you’re delusional dude. Automation will create a sedentary population and y’all need to stop pretending that’s a bad thing.
This guy was one of those kids that hated having to go work with his dad in the summer. He couldn't wait to figure out how to keep from having to do some work so he could get back to playing PlayStation.
Soon enough we´ll see robots like Boston Dynamics replacing construction workers even more so.
How is this not a huge thing
what's the intro music tho
I've been searching for it for months lol
Lol, look no further: www.musicbed.com/songs/heroes-instrumental/28707
Nah, i was talking about the intro as in the song that you use for this series
@@freethink the music at 0:51
@@freethink valley of wolves is so good!
I had no clue this site existed!
I am interested
“Force multiplier” haha how is the job not replacing jobs? The person that works excavating not going to lose their job?
1) People don't want to work those jobs anymore. 2) No one can beat machines at repetitive tasks.
Get more intelligent. Smashing rocks open is not a job for manual laborers in the modern world either. If you want archaic construction, have at it. The rest of the world is moving on.
@@hightechboosted20 who says people do t want those jobs? If they are paying people are willing. No one said machines aren’t cost effective, it was about how these jobs are taking people’s job. Stay on track of the subject
@@d1sturb3d119 archaic job? Haha might as well remove all the cashiers around the world, bartenders, and taxi/Uber drivers. Those are mindless jobs and can easily be replaced but until the day you die there will be those people working those positions
@@tricallyourmama Except for the fact that this pandemic among other considerations have indeed forced the market to evolve and change. The fact is automation is an undeniable event that has been occurring for years.
Its not that the jobs are mindless. Its that they're repeatable. If they're repeatable, they can be automated. The hope is for folks to learn more technical skills.
Bank tellers had jobs about 30 years ago until the advent of computers. Circuit switched operators had jobs too. The internet would not exist if automated switches were never created. Things change. I don't make the rules. This is what's coming and people are in for a surprise if they expect something else.
Always gonna need operators computers lack the unique situation dependent skills we learned getting screamed at by the older guys
Hoće li cijena izgradnje biti jeftinija kada nema ljudskih operatera?
At Mortenson, we partnered with BuiltRobotics to test and validate the use of autonomous heavy equipment for the past couple of years. WHY? We are trying to solve the mega trend of the shortage of skilled craft and Operators in rural environment which are away from the workforce populations. We are working on low dexterity work that a machine can do which is far higher value then having a skilled operator taken away from high dexterity work (more complicated work best done by humans) so we move earth specifically to build clean energy - wind/solar projects. Many of the scenes in this video were taken from Mortenson energy jobsites. It's not about replacing people, but augmenting the workforce so we can apply the tribal knowledge and high skillset on the right work, vs. having machines do the tedious work at night while workers are with their families.
Ah yes, 'augmenting the workforce' and applying 'tribal knowledge' - whatever tribal knowledge means in relation to a construction job. Dude, you've swallowed too many business efficiency seminar powerpoints. I'm a civil engineer, I can see your bs a mile off. Of course it's only a very minor impact on jobs at the moment. Lift your head up from your LinkedIn profile for a second to think about the wider effects over the next 10 - 20 years.
Aint no robot gonna replace a bricklayer anytime soon
I wanna join you.....I want work with you...
In construction faster aint always better
One lab top can change plan to customize the jobs daily
I'm going to invest in this and all automated jobs alike that the next generation will suffer to find a job.
Thos is clever asd
... Tardará más de 300 años en ser rentable. Estará más tiempo averiada que en marcha.
I think this system and others that I've seen are great and they WILL replace people. Tje problem is not everybody has the aptitude to get into IT.
I work in construction and most tradesmen become tradesmen because their good with their hands.
The other thing I've noticed about construction over the past 10-15 years is that the plans and specifications we get onsite are getting worse and worse and the engineers and architects are doing less and leaving tradesmen and site people to fill in the blanks, the reality is robots are only as good as the person programming them. I b erlieve these machines are great but even the video shows them working on there own in a big wide open space, the reality is most construction work takes place in cramped sites in the middle of a city.
I think construction will eventually become more automated but you have to change a lot of peoples attitides.
Survival of the smartest i suppose...
This technology is absolutely inevitable. The technology has been in place for years. The market system demands it. Technological unemployment is a certainty. This is not to say the world should live in poverty but a new social economic system one of technology not consumption needs to be established.
Manage the planet/habitat the way you would manage a construction site/project.
Years back I watched over 50-100 acre cut and fill property development projects. I often imagined satellite guided miniature (4yrd) dumptrucks and excavators and dozers operating.
The mining industry already uses automated diggers & tip trucks
and what if they come self-aware??
Crean la tecnología y luego no la saben reparar. Menos tonterías. No hay gente para atender este nivel de electrónica.
Me being a heavy equipment operator...lagging my but of.....this is technical work...believe me son...but good luck anyways...
I think you underestimate how good AI is my friend
Instead of decrying the tech, learn and stay ahead of the curve. The fact is the human element is still needed. But what we don't need are folks who are going to just perform repetitive tasks
What he means by too expensive, is let me get rich by eliminating an entire trade.
Imagine a workforce that takes no bathroom breaks, has no paid benefits,.no vacation and no ability to go on strike.
They say that the Technology is not causing unemployment, As far as I know! The more technology, the higher unemployment will be
We wanna see more about the robot, the product and less about the company.
Yeah very futuristic and all that but what about the unskilled workers robot for every thing and company makings lots of money!!
But have to pay more expensive insurance for everything 😪
Bobcat is proving him wrong on changing the mechanics….
I'd turn the earth itself into robot and it'll create it's own pond
3:20
It's going to be really hard to get this accepted and used mainstream.The people in charge of construction products like predictable.They have to win lowest bids repeatedly.If they can't fully trust in the work getting done they can't bid.If there is any problem with the computer not working/ it's actual ,practical capabilities at all,which causes even small delays in production they will have software ripped out by themselves and a qualified human in the seat faster than you can say unemployed robotics,and they won't be coming back.And even on simple" tasks I don't think they will have the split second awareness and deduction making,and control needed .You'll end up needing one operator to run one AI tractor full time,which sounds more expensive to me.Maybe it would work if you have no skilled operator and a foreman can get a task done( possibly done).Even still that would be expensive tech waiting around for the "easy work" and still costing money.Good luck,I think itllfind a niche,but it won't be used widely .
As soon as thwy can make them they're out the door. All thw units are going to large companies.
...Le doy 4 horas seguidas de funcionamiento. Después no hay ingeniero que la sepa reparar.
Can you dig it?
this is for construction but the AI is behind it, it can be for any other business, including helping the elderly people
One laptop can concurrently control 32000 equipment and devices if not being jam
As long as we live under capitalism, I just can't see people losing their jobs in a positive light, y'know.
Social programs and Capitalism aren't mutually exclusive, it's also known as Social Democracy, plus automation makes for higher efficiency output and cheaper products/services.
Jobs are made just as much as jobs get lost. You just have to know where to look and how to think. Our industry needs tremendous innovation to keep up with the rising demand and lack of skilled labor to operate different points along the project development life cycle.
Socialism will create just another distopía as it always has .
@@TheObserversTV honestly, as a heavy equipment operator, I can tell you there is nothing efficient about anything happening in this video. The machines look like first time operators. I assume they will get better in time, but at this point they are nowhere even close to the production of a well-skilled operator less than 1%
Idk, I dint wanna take jobs away from construction workers.
But we could use them in other fields. If a job can be done by a robot then it should. No need to waste human talent on simple things when we could use their minds for greater things.
That's silly. If it were up to you we wouldn't have trains or cars, since it would put wagon drivers and horses out of jobs.
It doesn't. I'm a contractor that's fighting to get this tech but all the units are going to large national companies now.
There is going to be a labor shortage in construction for at lease the 15 years. We're short millions of homes and the number gets bigger every year as we fall behind.
Who wants to focus on power generating navigable rivers and smart cities with me?
It is automation that has sparked the industrial revolution. If you are against automation you might as well go live in the Amazon :)
Amazon! What a great choice of a word! They'll go live IN Amazon as human slave workers! But that'll probably be automated too by then! 👍
Is it too expensive or is it just that America is wasting money away in military and tax cuts?
You'll be paying taxes to someone else with out enemies being thoroughly deterred with the military.
Its we dont have enough people in construction so the supply of man hours is low and high prices can be charged
@@jacobhatfield4970 Don't have enough people in construction? Have you been to a construction site lately? Have you seen the lines of job applicants that go around the block? We have an enormous amount of construction workers that need work, the problem is related to government. They don't want to pay for labor, that's the problem. It's all about tax cuts for the wealthy and to hell with the working class people.
Shut up. Spamming videos with non relevant comments.
@dkwroot you're lying and obviously know nothing about the industry.
If you ever see a line it's not skilled construction workers, unless it's a company that decided to pay at least 50% over the going rate with benefits.
If we try these AI on farm equipment like tractor it will cut down 20% cost on food item in UNITED STATE
My fear is that decreasing the costs of construction increases the construction activity and therefore destroying our environment even more.
Im not convinced that this technology will be overall good for humanity
The focus will be put on urban areas, I think that the future of rural areas will be reduced and urban areas will increase, so instead of having 50 towns/villages and a moderate sized city in 2020, you will have 0 towns/villages and a condensed/larger (smart, clean-energy) city by 2050, we would have an overall better environment.
Maybe you should live in a mountain or not man island
The problem is there are a lot of dumb people who don't want to doanthong that requires much thought. There perfectly happy with mundane. I have always be one who makes tasks simpler by implementation of machine or tool to reduce human error.
I’m sooo not anti innovation. It won’t be long before software is is controlling robots who manufacture the interface that controls the construction equipment.
Such automation makes no sense. I'm an automaton myself and I know how it works. Sometimes repairing an automatic system can take several days and be very expensive. These are people who have never worked on such machines. Anything can happen. A stone, a bomb, a broken pin, a bent piston, or even a broken hose - a fire in the machine
#Artificial_Intelligence is definitely the future of the world
AI will drive the economy of tomorrow....
#UniversalBasicIncome - dignity Life For every one....
As an engineer and technology advocate, I really don’t see the point of this, I really don’t! Usually you automate a task to improve efficiency, such as in batch and bulk manufacturing etc This actually hinders efficiency lmfao! WTF! Not everything that can be automated, should be automated
I get people are anxious about automation and it's effects on jobs but I think they are looking at it the wrong way, more automation means more production and more efficiency, it accelerates growth , it will result in more jobs also it will shift jobs to to more service centered occupations, plus it will make products effordable, more automation means better future for more people globally.
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construction is the last bastion of unskilled labour. as it is, we have a shortage of *entry level* jobs, even if overall job market is okay. having one operator deny 5-10 blokes in steelies food, shelter and liberty, will only make our society more unequal, more only built for the upper class, not building a future for all.
as far as i'm concerned, as a very techy, very excited enthusiast, this project is just not worth deploying. mind you, researching everything is worth it, but the founder should scale this down to an enthusiast level project, not a professional one. something a farmer can rent to build a new shed, dig out a pond or little projects like that. heck, i don't like copyright and patents, but go balls to the wall with this. make taking jobs away proprietary. don't keep digging the trench between the rich and the poor, even if its with cool tech.
If we used this to put a roof over everyone, it would be great. There's no other excuse to have a sad problem like homelessness in our societies, but pure greed. This could make cheap houses affordable for a lot of people. It's a matter of letting capitalism or humanity win. It's definetely up to us.
Do you really think the robotic companies investing millions to develop these robots will make the houses using these robots and then sell those houses for cheap for a "greater good"?
New war not shooting but running around obstacles and let women had nore air to breath
The future looks like unemployment.
2:43 Ugh, that blonde looks so gorgeous.
And what happens to the operators, they end up unemployed and the world becomes lazy.
How will it change our world? Can you say massive unemployment
Looks terrible glad I'm almost done never thought I would be replaced by a computer chip.
What is the point of living you know there are pepole like me that actually like to drive trucks and operate equipment you say there won’t be a job loss but you are lying to us for shure
Awesome, kill more jobs and give employers a reason to cut wages since you don't need any hand skill to do the work.
Any company that goes to automation should have to pay the equivalent of a person's wage in tax to supplement those who'll be out of work.