This bricklaying robot could build 100 to 300 homes a year

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.

[JesseOrrall]

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.

[umaikeruna]

If you buy the premium software bundle, these robots will also cat call, and whistle at people walking by the construction site.

[lunsy]

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.

[hydroaegis]

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.

[OriginalBernieBro]

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!

[SecretOfMonkeyIsland]

Wow even cheap labour from abroad is being put out of work

[jamestodd]

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

[Mark-jqre]

The first one would be awesome for “MARS” !!!

[rubberduckyconvoy]

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.

[wrdennig]

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.

[TheGlassman]

Doesn't matter how many houses this can build if nobody has jobs to buy them 👌👌👌

[jamescoakley]

I am so proud of us humans. Doing ourselves out of jobs. One brick at a time.

[AlainLafond]

Thanks for the usefull infos on the price pal!!!

[ajbarry]

Imagine using hundreds or thousands of these Do you know what this means for affordable housing for needy individuals

[amomentwithanimals]

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.

[chrisr]

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.

[TiktokBrandoniMacaroni]

Let’s stop saying they took our jobs the job is torture on the human body the machines can stop injuries!

[vinic]

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!

[papito]

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.

[Balila_balbal_loki]

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.