The Australian company FBR has presented the new robotic bricklayer Hadrian X, which can build walls at record speed. At first glance, the robot acts like a truck with a 32-meter long arm that serves as its block placement arm and can accurately place up to 300 blocks per hour, as you can see in the attached video.
Hadrian X uses large 45 kg blocks measuring 600 x 400 x 300 mm for masonry and can lay about 70 square meters of wall every hour, which is about 1/4 of a tennis court, and FBR expects the robot to become even faster , that is, that it will soon be able to place 500 blocks per hour.
The mason robot works by workers carrying pallets of blocks, which are placed in the back of the robot, then the machine unpacks them and cuts them with a circular saw as needed.
Then they are sent one by one through the leg, painted with a special construction adhesive instead of plaster, and placed in place where it is being built. The drying of the glue takes only 45 minutes, after which the wall is dry, solid and safe.
The telescopic building arm is long enough to be able to place blocks up to a height of a three-story building and to work 24 hours a day in all weather conditions.
At this stage the robot can build faster than humans, but is not completely accurate in placing the blocks. However, FBR says that after additional testing and calibration, the robot will soon become a master mason and will be able to completely change construction.
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