This bricklaying robot could build 100 to 300 homes a year
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- The Hadrian X bricklaying robot made by Fastbrick Robotics has broken its own speed record, laying 200 bricks in just one hour. We compare the Hadrian X with the first commercially available bricklaying robot, the SAM100, made by Construction Robotics.
Correction: While the Hadrian X is capable of laying bricks 12 times larger than standard house bricks, the 200 bricks per hour record was achieved with bricks 5 times larger than standard house bricks.
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Correction: While the Hadrian X is capable of laying bricks 12x larger than standard house bricks, the bricks used to reach the record of 200 bricks in one hour were 5x larger than standard house bricks.
Or other wise known as a standard four inch block. They got guys who lay 140 of them in 20 minutes. Fastest trowel on the block. That equals 420 block an hour. Machine needs to catch up. Oh and they are on half lap bond with mortar on them. Lol.
@@beardedbricky7834 machine can work at this pace 10 000 hours nonstop
@@saulsavelis575 doesn't matter the pace when there is no mortar and the bond is all screwed up.
@@beardedbricky7834 but this one is tidy
@@beardedbricky7834 it uses an in-house adhesive that "holds stronger and results in greater thermal and acoustic properties than traditional mortar."
If you buy the premium software bundle, these robots will also cat call, and whistle at people walking by the construction site.
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Pfftt...you mean women?
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I was helper for almost 2 years. We had two masons that would regularly lay 1,500 brick a day on straight walls. One white guy one Mexican guy. They were both masters. The white guy was better only because he'd been doing it since he was 8 with his father. The arches and coins he could lay were simply awesome and he could really put them down in a straight wall. With 4 masons on a wall he would lay 40% of it. Same with Javier he just didn't have the technical side down as well. They were making 30 an hour in 91.
I love working with guys like that. They must have been bull strong!
Will not replace human workers... Riiiiiight
They don't. It's never that easy to build a wall.
It will. There will always be a place for maintenance and operation. But most manual labor will become obselete in the future. Most people who haven't invested in education will be in for a rude awakening as their employment will be limited.
@@deejay7339 Agree man. If these robots get cheap, construction workers are done for. Don't think it'll be as much a matter of education as it will be actual skills though.
maybe I should say WHEN these robots get cheap...
@@suleiman1520 I should clarify. "Skill based" technicians and mechanics who service these machines would be needed. Higher education will be more relevant to society as labor markets diminish. There's an insufficient supply in Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Software programming, ect. As the demand grows further, that'll demand even more supply from the jobs market. That's less money put into labor rendering someone's "skill" obsolete.
All robots augment at first then replace. We went from cashiers writing receipts, to POS systems and printed receipts, to digital screens where you can tap your order in. It's all a matter of time.
the future computer server room will have two entities: a man and a dog.
man: will feed, walk, and bathe the dog
dog: makes sure the man doesn't touch anything!
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Wow even cheap labour from abroad is being put out of work
These are exactly the easiest jobs to automate.
I worked on a brick crew...as a laborer. On a straight run, Dan could lay brick as fast as I picked them up and handed them to him face out. He would lay 5 cubes(2500) a day. This machine would lay 1,000, and I'm being generous.
Dan took the oversquish fron the mortar bed with his trowel and used that mortar for the front of his next brick, and already had the bed of mortar on the run of bricks he was laying. I could barely keep up just handing them to him.
R.I.P. Dan Herman
An autonomous robot can work 24/7 though, for essentially forever, as long as it is maintained.
@@VortechBand There is also the fact that essentially after the upfront cost you just have to pay for fuel and mantenance.
@@anandisrocking007no benefits to pay, no unions to deal with, no lunch or water breaks to give, don’t have to stop work if it’s too hot outside. Man vs machine is a losing proposition.
With Hadrian X I see adhesive on the horizontal joints, what about the vertical joints, it looks to leave space for mortar but what do they do? I can’t find the answer.
Doesn't matter how many houses this can build if nobody has jobs to buy them 👌👌👌
not everyone make living out of brick laying, and i'm pretty sure most people don't like repeatitive job either.
@@photovideooz4084sometimes there no choice
I'd like to see videos of the complete build of a home - site prep, brick walls, steel reinforcement, cell fill, wall coatings, roof, infrastructure, wiring, plumbing, hvac.
The first one would be awesome for “MARS” !!!
How do that robot puts cement/mortor between those bricks?
Imagine using hundreds or thousands of these Do you know what this means for affordable housing for needy individuals
@King Crusader Thi is why we need some form of UBI & stronger social safety net/welfare services
@@Badbigboy123 who is gonna pay for it?
@@Badbigboy123 the government doesn’t care about you. People who will lose their jobs to machines will be on their own.
@@nadie8093 tax payers because it will benefit society as a whole & the people in need. it turns out more people having more money is good for an economy!
@@Badbigboy123 that'll just lead to massive capital miss alocation. Take money from a productive industry or demographic and give it to people who didnt earn it and thus dont actually care that much for the money and will therefore missuse it.
I am so proud of us humans. Doing ourselves out of jobs. One brick at a time.
Yeah, the industrial revolution never should've happened. In fact, humanity would be better off as hunter-gatherers! /s
How much is a machine ? I would to know how areas the machine will need? After that, how the machine is working or repair if it has got problem.
I was born in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, in 1967.
My father had built our house in 1953. He used the Ciment, Bricks, and Clay and Straw Bricks . Also the walls are 24 inches thick.
It is a strong house and does not even require an A/C. Only in the winter season a few hours a minimum needs to warm house inside. My father's house keeps temperature inside very comfort in any of the seasons. My younger sister is living in our father's house.
I have been living in the State of Delaware since 1998. My house was built by 2016, and I called it a Wooden Shelter. My house in Delaware will never compare to my father's house in Ukraine. There's a heatwave on the East Coast right now. My A/C never stops to cool down my house.
America needs to radically change construction to build houses. American houses should have thick walls and be packed with a special ceiling to keep the heat out of the roof and house. At the same time, new construction will save the world from global heating by A/C.
Thanks for the usefull infos on the price pal!!!
Let’s stop saying they took our jobs the job is torture on the human body the machines can stop injuries!
I'm a bricklayer, it's an easy job once you get the technical aspect sorted.... physically, far less injuries than if you were inactive.
Whats the wind threshold upto which this machine could adapt to and lay bricks ?
Great point, especially the higher it gets! Also, what surface does it have to have before it can be set up correctly? perfectly level with no building debris? cement, not dirt? what about windows and doors and arches?
I wonder if it can tidy up after messy joiners
the australia machine isnt shown applying mortor
I don't think it uses mortar. I'm pretty sure it uses some kind of adhesive paste or something like it instead, and I wouldn't be surprised if they're applied to the bricks before they're laid
You gotta listen better
@@user-io5gw1rk4t I heared as well him saying that "It applies special adhesive", but i can see massive gaps to the sodes of the briks.
@@Romashka8706 This gap is because it is going to be rendered, and it helps with adhesion
It doesn't use mortar, it uses a stronger industrial adhesive that dries in 45minutes. It's controlled uniform application means that you are reducing your variable costs
The article I read about the Hadrian X said it lays 500 bricks per hour and this video says 200 . Also the article said that the robot can work 24/7 because it doesn't need to eat or sleep,I beg to differ because there is a man on site monitoring this robot and he needs to eat and sleep. Next , the article said that the robot could lay the bricks in any weather, while that is wrong too because the adhesive will not dry correctly in inclement weather. Finally bricks and blocks are 2 different things.
It never occurred to you that the people can go home and different people can come to work?
This is awesome 👏 I wanna get a brick house built by this robot can I be a tester In The USA my family needs our first home we are renting
It doesn't seem like such a breakthrough for me. Robots have been used in factories to do way more complex work for a long time.
Yeah ,Mazak mazatrol is fully automated . This is just a CNC crane with a grab and a concrete pump/special adhesive .
Yeah but they have never been used to build buildings. There's a lot of incredible tech in distribution centers and factories that can be applied to other industries but haven't.
Except this is basically bringing the factory to your site, brick laying is physically detrimental to the people who lay them, this robot can effectively lay 24\7 as long its inventory is kept up, no sick days no worker injuries, id say itd be far cheaper long term than a workforce of human brick layers
I'm not that sold on this product. A main issue with building is the costs of having a truck close down the road or interrupt traffic. It costs a lot for the permits and in some areas you cannot do it except for certain times during the week like casting the slab at night during a weekend that being said the people operating this machine will cost more than the workers who would do its job i worked in construction as a mechanical engineer for around 2 years and know that on average a masonry does around 400-600 blocks a day and this machine isn't feasible for construction for a sky scraper for example there are safety risks bringing heavy equipment to these altitudes and regulations to follow which depend on the country or province in dubai for example the cement mixers aren't allowed after certain heights and cement has to be mixed on the ground floor and be brought up and those cost a lot of money.
Sorry if something isn't clear or there are any mistakes native arab speaker here.
It's very clear. Thanks for watching!
isn't high buildings are using pre-cast concretes these days?
@@photovideooz4084 It depends on the region and how tall the tower is. Certain regions along the temperature belt of the thermal equator use pre-casts for the entire structure regardless of height, if the region is colder along the Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn then it's precast to a certain height then after that it isn't because you need additives into the mixture because it's colder for heat insolation and varying temperatures between negative temperature values in winter and hotter summers cause the concrete to break. There is also a major factor being cost if hiring a subcontractor to cast the concrete for you on site is cheaper than using pre cast them more than likely you'll hire a subcontractor.
Is that grey brick better than cinder block? I ask because cinder block is awful construction material suitable only for disposable commercial construction.
can I buy this?
Prefabricated factory panels will take over before this sort of thing does. These machines generally rely on the building sites being flat with plenty of room to all sides of the structures. They also can't deal with things like feature courses, non-standard sized openings, placing other materials (insulation, dpc's, trays, lintels, window formers, etc..) i.e. all of the things needed to keep the planners & building inspectors happy!
prefabricated building panels were heavily used in the 1950s, and resulted in a lot of buildings that were structurally unsound, because they're literally like a stack of cards and with only a few joints along huge panels, they're not as flexible as buildings made from smaller elements, like bricks, and thus don't stand well against weather and earthquake. They all required additional bracing to remain sturdy enough to be safe, but that also means you have a bunch of bracing that when worn, becomes soft and then the building starts to wobble in strong wind
@@thesteelrodent1796That's saying that engineers haven't learned anything in the last 70 years.
What about the cement?
Anyone in the comments know FBR handrist here in Australia please.
Where's the mortar where's the cement that holds the bricks together
i wouldn't live in these homes tbh
The name is GENIUS.
Wonderful! The more robots the better for precision, accuracy, fairness, and unbiased delivery of services.
And less jobs, which means more poverty! So wonderful
And more unemployed people...
lusurama5080 more stimulus checks for life
@@lusurama5080 *"And less jobs, which means more poverty!"* it just means we need to give serious consideration to the continued relevance of 20th century socioeconomics
Delivery of what services? You need customers for services...and if everyone is unemployed then there's no demand for any services... unbiased or otherwise. For sure nobody will have enough money to buy all the houses this thing is building.
give me another ten years... will see how that goes!
Human bricklayer puts the mortar on the bricks, Hardian X seems to skip that portion and uses aircrete block (inferior product).
These machines will come into their own when they can do complex structures without all the setting out time.
Did you see the gaps in the bricks Hadrian x lays? That is a major problem for insulation and waterproofing. The wall does not seem structurally sound. That glue will not hold like mortar or cement.
200 bricks in an hour is not impressive. A truly optimized robot bricklayer should be laying 60 bricks every minute.
As much as I love technology, I think it's at least partially deceptive to say that this is meant to protect workers. When construction companies start adopting these robots en masse the workers will be "protected" from repetitive stress injury by the simple fact that many of them will be laid off. That's not to say that we shouldn't invest in new technologies, but that we need to come up with ways to transition those workers into new jobs through training and education. It is impossible to prevent the rise of new technologies from changing the labor market, but we cannot be blind to the real impact of said technologies on the livelihood of so many people.
If we had avoided creating computers with the fear of them replacing hundreds of human calculators or not knowing what to do with those human calculators, America woundn’t be the great power it is in the technology industry. Jobs will be created but we can’t predict them easily.
Adi Vemireddy It is not a matter of avoiding creating new technologies out of fear, but of being aware of their predictable impact on society and taking measures to safeguard the livelihoods of people. Not everyone is in a position to become a programmer, an engineer or to otherwise take part in the digital economy being born today. However, everyone has a right to work and to not be tossed aside when a new technology comes along. It imperative that we have technologies that are more efficient, that can build houses quicker for out expanding populations. We need AI that can help farm more effectively and distribute food with less waste. We also need to be aware that people’s lives will be disrupted and there needs be a plan so they don’t go hungry as we re-engineering our society.
@@Sela2125 universal basic income for the transitional period tech revolution. Like back in the industrial revolution age. Now it's the technological revolution.
it won't affect current job market, but it will gradually phasing our repeatitive labour work in 15-20 years. I don't think people would enjoy repetitive labour works anyway, there should be more meaningful jobs for people.
@@VMRDY America didn't invent computers
Rebar?
Excellent now this robot can be used to build more schools, universities, libraries, community centers yea that will never happen because humanity doesn't exist anymore
This is great. Robots are so helpful, strong, fast and powerful.
robots are as good as they are maintained. If we can't handle ordinary cars in order for a quite some time what makes you believe a high-tech very customized piece of equipment gonna go for a long time. Even if it does, I very much doubt it will be any comparable to what a low paid construction worker does over a month-time period.
perfect industry for automation!
Why, so I can be put out of work?
@@Idontwantahandle6669 yes
Am i missing something wheres the mortar
A whole lot of people are going to lose their jobs. People need to start training to operate and fixing these robots to avoid becoming replaced by them.
By then robots will repair robots.
@@Vildayyan2003 then people have to learn to build those robots, the cycle continues.
That will never happen. This robot lays like crap and doesn’t even put mortar in the joints. They can make machines for a lot of things but custom home building is not one of them. They need to stick to the factory line lol.
Bearded Bricky Give it time they will get it right
Embrace change. Who wants the same job 4 life anyone. It's good 2 change and try something new. Just spend less on material possessions. Live a simple humble life.
Time for smart technology
no mortar?
All that savings and houses will still be expensive
I’m bricking it already
It's crazy how almost 60 yrs old brick laying mechanical robot is still more productive and way more cheaper than modern crazy expensive slow arm robots.
3:11 Don't let the PR fool you, the goal is actually profit.
the machine forgot to put cement between the bricks!
No mortar on the FBR
What about at high floors
hadrian x can only do 2 storey houses only
brick is plural for brick. As a mason I just felt I should address that
Neat but that wall does not meet CA code
European builders secure brick/block with mortar an invention going back to the Roman Empire, suppose Australians have mastered fresh air as the way forward unless I'm missing something?
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U mean by fresh air living in the woods.
better get that UBI ready 🤣🤣
Who needs so many houses??
so you guys got lazy at getting *pricing information* smh
Watch and listen this part, 1:49
How is this laying bricks without cement and the bricks are layed with massive gaps...
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It uses a special adhesive... did you not watch the video bro? ffs
This machine is the equivalent of paying Gordon Ramsay to work at Burger King.
Here's a theory. I think it's very possible that with the extreme replacement of human labor via autonomous tech will come a situation of needing to enforce a wage loss fee/ tax targeting the companies using robots to replace human roles, as a way to protect the economy and help the lower class survive. Even with some expense for using a robot it will still save the company tons in the all areas of efficiency and give lower total operating costs for facilities(no bathrooms, no lights, no heat, and most importantly no law suits). Although with still no means of income in for the replaced workers that funding will then need to go to the citizens who are unqualified to work anymore in order to keep the public majority from literally turning the country into chaos. So that stimulus check was weird right almost felt like an allowance? Well it will be just like that or maybe the pandemic unemployment where everyone gets about the same per week. Essentially there will be a Nonworking class where you don't need to work and you have a fixed level of wealth that you will obtain over your lifetime but live comfortably and worry-free, and then the working class for those who decide to pursue success and greater wealth beyond what is determined as fit by the gov. That working class will have it's own society consisting of things unimaginable to the lower class just like how it is currently, except Substantially less suffering as everybody will have the necessities to be happy.
Interesting read, I agree with most of your proposal, but I hope that it would only amount to being transistional, we cannot afford a continuation of the divisive Left/Right narrative or any variance. The ever increasing efficiency of AI directed automation technology and subsequent ephemeralization(ability to create more with less) trend will continue, the problem we need to address is the inevitable demise of Capitalism. This perennial Left/Right narrative is proving increasingly toxic and becoming increasingly irrelevant in the context of our science and applied technology. The advent of AI directed autonomous robotic systems will erode a foundational principle for the continued viability of capitalism, and that priniciple is *labour for income'.* Some 40% of cognitive & manually repetitive jobs will go in the coming decade or so. For example in the USA where there are 3.5 million truck drivers, it is estimated the savings of AI directed autonomous vehicular freight delivery to be $168 billion/year in saved fuel ($35 billion), reduced labor costs ($70 billion), fewer accidents ($36 billion) and increased productivity and equipment utilization ($27 billion). That is an incredibly high incentive to oust drivers - in fact the efficiencies gained would actually be enough to pay the drivers their $40,000 a year salary to stay home and still save almost $100 billion per year. Its not just drivers in the cross-hairs, lawyers, radiologists, doctors, call center workers, accountants, most manufacturing jobs, teachers, clerical, retail...etc. Think cognitive repetitive and manual repetitive or essentially 40% of all US jobs are in the cross-hairs to be done by AI directed automation and the attitude we should have towards this isn't protectionism but an enthusiasm to see extraordinary efficiency gains coupled with the plummeting of fatalities due to human error, reduced environmental impact. We should be rooting for similar gains in efficiency outcomes in as many cognitive repetitive & manually repetitive jobs(approx 40% of all jobs in the US both blue & white collar) throughout the economy and *if we are not then we should be calling into question 20th century thinking about the economy!*
The government doesn’t care about. As the old Soviet saying goes, “if you do not work, you do not eat”.
Interesting, but a comment you made stood out. " help the lower class survive"
A brick layer is "lower class"?
Who else would you put in that category? Anyone in the trades or works with their hands?
Is it because of how much money they make?
How much money would they have to make in your opinion not to be in this "lower" category?
Dey dook ar djaaabs!
Nice but still needs more work
Can you build border walls with this?
And not one drop of brick mortar...
That is ridicules the foundations are not going to be strong without mortar.
Why is the brickwork all smudged, also none of the block work no half-bond. ..
Their brickkaying materials are much more impressive than their bricklaying robot - will they be producing that independently?
the ahesive only works for the special brick
@@photovideooz4084 I understand, but the company/robot's productivity seemed based more on their specialized light-weight & efficient materials...
nerds will rule the future. this is their revenge from being bullied by jocks that ended up in careers carpentry related
Home that no one will be able to afford, because there won’t be any jobs.
Unemployment due to machines is actually a good thing, believe it or not.
@@austinbevis4266 elaborate please, i'm having a hard time understanding
@@roadsigncheems1566 - At some point someone will be able to cheaply 3D print a robot that can do everything a Construction worker/ Farm worker can do, once society has a cheap-disposable work force that is NOT conscience then we will be able to move away from humans having to work to survive. I still believe that people will need work, but it will end up being work that they want to do.
@@s_s7214 tax robots
@@s_s7214 why would you want to be able to move away from humans having to work to survive? Who gives them bread on table?
Well how am I supposed to make money without a college degree I work that’s what I do
I'd block the entrance to the site
What is Elon Musk buy the license for Moon based building?
Its stacking blocks that's all
Hanzhen harmonic drive gear , robot arm gear , over 30 years experience
Nikola motor with fake running truck video are valued at $25 Billions, yet this construction robotic truck actually built many display buildings valued at less than $0.1 Billion, they should have it list on Nasdaq to get attention.
Oh what happens to all those bricklayers
Nothing. That machine costs 100 x us and still can’t keep up. We will be here for some time to come. Sad thing is we can’t get the grants or loans the robotics companies can. You would really see some action if we could get that money!
Clearly blocks not bricks.
Keep out jobs. This will only make the rich richer and the poor poorer
You're fired! Good luck never comeback again anymore time!
If I was a mason i'd be scared
Who lays the mortar, tests the consistency, fits the ties, measures the cuts, cuts the blocks, checks the levels, points the joints, makes the tea, goes for the butties, tells the jokes, creates the experience, sells the service??? If the robot can’t do that, or drive it self to the job on time, it will need a human. Innovate but don’t isolate ✌️
Doesn’t take in account of cerment
Did you not even watch until the 2:00 minute mark? LOL! Hint: you'll see cement
@@Vildayyan2003 did you even listen to the video. The 2 minute mark is not talking about this but another. If you want to know about what type of adhesive/ mortar this particular robot uses, watch and listen from 0:55
What happens 20 years from now?
Mars is colonised by elon musk and 3d printed buildings.
Not the intention of the company to replace human brick layers my bu#$. The majority of businesses main goal is to be profitable. The best way to be profitable is take the human factor out of jobs that require repetitive motion that results in worker's compensation claims. The robot can work 24/7, never needs a break, lunch hour, vacation or sick days. I remember when Edelbrock brought in robots to build and test all of their engine performance products. The parking lot use to have a couple hundred employee cars, five days a week. Now they have about 20 employees and the parking lot is rented out for storage to a local car dealer. Don't let any of these companies tell you that the goal is not to replace human workers.
It isn’t laying any mortar in this video so can it actually do it...
Watch and listen from 0:55
It uses a adhesive that is stronger then mortar
that would be the perfect gift for latin american countries .
i thought in latin american countries the brick layer labour cost are low, not feasible for such expensive machine.
Those are block not brick
They say these machines won’t replace jobs maybe not now but when other companies start making different machines that will do the other jobs that the humans do then more jobs will be gone. Other companies have made a lot of construction automation to take jobs away from people. Andrew Yang who was running for American President was correct in saying we are in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and jobs are being automated away and we need to help the people who lose their jobs to automation by having a Universal Basic Income d we are going to continue to need money to survive
The Hadrian X don't have " court dates", will show up next day after pay-day, no hang over, absent Monday mornings, do not back talk, no gossip, no clickes, don't pick him up every morning tooting the horn and waking up its neighbors whom most likely throw eggs at you, need money in advance because his family in Mexico needs money, borrow money, do not smoke, do not need help filling out his employment application, no loud radio listening to Sinaloa banda music which even most mexicans hate, do not hide materilas so it can go home early, do not steal materials and go on weekends to use those materils on his side clients, do not throw used toilet paper on floor instead in trash can, do not stare at your client's daughters and wife, and many things I have encountered during my 47 years in construction. I would like to buy one. How can I get in touch with a seller?
When everyone's job has been taken by these robots, those robots will also become unemployed, because everyone lost their purchasing power.
Another industry that will be gone in 5 to 10 years
Looks pretty slow.
THANK U AI BOBOTS BETTER ❤🎉❤
Just what we need, more robots/machines to take away jobs. They say humans are clever, but I find it hard to believe this when we design robots/machines to take away jobs and people’s livelihoods.
there will be jobs for looking after the machines on the construction site, at least 2-3 people needed.
@@photovideooz4084 Yeah but these robots will take away more jobs than would be created looking after it.
@@photovideooz4084 human tech notions won’t exist in 10 years time, there are robots being designed to remove humans from such roles.
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Where is the reinforcement? This will fall apart in an earthquake or storm.
i'm faster, tested.