Back in 2015 we looked at an interesting approach to automated construction in the form of a brick-laying robot, capable of putting together full-sized homes in just two days. The engineers behind the ...

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A new and upgraded robot, which can lay bricks, has completed factory acceptance testing in Australia. FBR Limited has announced the completion of the new type of testing for its Hadrian bricklaying ...

Australia’s Fastbrick Robotics wants to shake up the world of Bob the Builder with a new bricklaying machine that can build a house four times faster than its human counterpart. Don’t believe it?

Few categories are as ripe for automation-fueled disruption as construction. The industry is valued at around $2 trillion a year, in the U.S. alone. Much of that work is strenuous, repetitive and ...

A new automated, truck-mounted robot can build a house in two days, moving four times faster than human construction workers. Hadrian X by the Australian company Fastbrick Robotics Limited can ...

Masonry robot Hadrian can now lay 20 percent more bricks per hour. However, it works more slowly on complex structures. The Australian construction robot Hadrian from robotics company FBR Limited can ...