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Digitizing construction sites with Scaled Robotics

Barcelona-based Scaled Robotics built a Wall-E doppelgänger to navigate around and build maps of construction sites by fusing images, video, and data captured by its robots. Read more: TechCrunch is a leading technology media property, dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news.

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August 2, 2019

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Barcelona-based Scaled Robotics built a Wall-E doppelgänger to navigate around and build maps of construction sites by fusing images, video, and data captured by its robots.

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Aristotle Axz

August 14, 2019 at 10:12 am

this looks real awesome idea.

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Prashant Chhonker

August 14, 2019 at 10:57 am

Its a nice tool. Where would we be without this tool? Every construction site should use this tool. No construction job is threatened by this tool. Thank you lord for this tool. blah blah blah… Show a real video for heaven’s sake.

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Luis Ureña

August 14, 2019 at 2:59 pm

Has to be really robust for such a rough environment.

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Self Aware Devices / Bilinçli Cihazlar

August 15, 2019 at 8:34 am

an invention NO one asked for. Pix4D has a crane cam thingy though.

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- Zephyr McIntyre
  
  August 17, 2019 at 1:32 am
  
  That’s not true.
  
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- Self Aware Devices / Bilinçli Cihazlar
  
  August 17, 2019 at 10:31 am
  
  @Zephyr McIntyre literally no one needs that many data points about normal construction. that robotics platform is not something they created, it is off the shelf. if you want to monitor a construction project you have to run over obstacles, climb stairs. there is already a solution coming for these, its called spot mini.
  
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- Zephyr McIntyre
  
  August 17, 2019 at 4:43 pm
  
  @Self Aware Devices / Bilinçli Cihazlar Interesting, I hadn’t seen the new BD stuff. There are end users that like to have that data. Mostly insurance and investors, sometimes project managers or designers implementing changes.
  
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besh g

August 15, 2019 at 2:15 pm

I that only me that feels the robot is very slow?

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- John Payne
  
  August 15, 2019 at 10:51 pm
  
  it has to be so it can efficiently scan all the building
  
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petite prince

August 15, 2019 at 2:22 pm

YANG GANG

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ProlificSwan

August 16, 2019 at 2:04 am

Isn’t this literally the same thing that the Boston Dynamics robot (Spot) is being marketed for? What’s Scaled Robotic’s competitive advantage? Their robot is clearly less dextrous.

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- Yağız Efe Demirel
  
  August 16, 2019 at 7:51 am
  
  Yes. Yes it is.
  
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- Harshvardhan Kanthode
  
  August 17, 2019 at 3:53 am
  
  Easier to control I guess? It’s much more compact and easier to repair by the looks of it.
  
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- ProlificSwan
  
  August 17, 2019 at 4:00 am
  
  @Harshvardhan Kanthode I guess it is probably a lot cheaper. Couldn’t say anything on control or repairs; Boston Dynamics has had a bit longer to tighten things up, so I doubt this is any sturdier, and it also can’t go up stairs which might mean it has to be supervised all the time.
  
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- Josh C
  
  August 17, 2019 at 8:45 am
  
  These robots were built by Clearpath Robotics! Husky and Jackal. Super robust 😉
  They can’t do backflips like Boston Dynamics, but they are a great alternative for research and development!
  
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Eric dela cruz

August 16, 2019 at 6:39 pm

There’s not a lack of workers there’s a communication gap through different professions not fully understanding how things operate. These things are tools for the situation , materials being made in a good standard quality and taking the time to explain while staying on schedule. Some professions don’t understand other professions from non experience in the field. Which is normal because every site is a learning process.

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Zbig Scowcroft

August 16, 2019 at 10:41 pm

The very obvious next question is “with whom do you share (or sell) this information later?” Just imagine there is milliliter precision information about even where you sleep. A lot of this technologies are developing without a proper “civic” safeguard against future abuses.

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Harshvardhan Kanthode

August 17, 2019 at 3:50 am

I like the interviewer this time, she knows the right and informative questions to ask.

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snark

August 17, 2019 at 5:34 am

@Scaled Robotics; use a drone with ai that adapts and learns the environment so it doesnt hit anything instead of using a slow heavy Mars rover for imagery of construction sites

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- izaia txgia
  
  August 17, 2019 at 5:37 am
  
  exactly, and maybe use this for sub-level type rover.
  
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abhi4u20

August 17, 2019 at 7:07 am

Mark my word this interviewer is going places…

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- Madara Uchiwa
  
  August 20, 2019 at 11:15 am
  
  Where? To do more interviews?
  
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- Ankit Arya
  
  September 6, 2019 at 5:04 am
  
  @Madara Uchiwa no nooooooo, shes gettin those elongated things
  
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Ken Imduaikiat

August 17, 2019 at 11:17 am

Love the idea. Keep it up.

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Shark Hunt

August 18, 2019 at 1:09 am

She likes him. I can see it in the way she looks at him and the way she moves. ????????????

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Said Farisi

August 19, 2019 at 1:48 pm

today it’s a tool, tomorrow it will go back in time to kill sarah connor.
just kidding !

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Matthew Stinar

August 21, 2019 at 2:37 am

Interesting topic. Too bad they didn’t get around to talking about it.

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theshuman100

August 21, 2019 at 4:14 am

hh. fuckin straight up replace the foreman

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5YNAP5E

August 22, 2019 at 1:22 pm

So um, how does the robot go between floors?

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- BearWithMe
  
  August 23, 2019 at 9:49 am
  
  Carefully
  
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creator Space

August 23, 2019 at 7:04 am

We made it well.

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Moazzam Ali Ashraf

August 24, 2019 at 6:47 am

Is it “husky”?

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Shahan Mughal

August 25, 2019 at 9:43 pm

I live in Pakistan and I’ve never seen anything like This?? ?

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john shu

August 26, 2019 at 2:38 am

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rough sawn

August 31, 2019 at 8:06 pm

He says “impossible for with humans to do it without a tool”. So how has anything gotten done before expensive nifty gadgets? Craft. Practice. Skill. What will happen if people continue to throw away ancestral knowledge, older material, tool skill and physical knowledge? It will fail sooner. No technology can span the chasm created. It is evidenced in all of the condo canyons popping up everywhere with poorly applied and taped vapor barriers with gypsum clad exteriors beginning to rot from the day they are “finished”. I’d like to hear an argument to the contrary.

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Stanford Leeham

September 29, 2019 at 12:55 am

Mapping of view in program of autocad or any view programs

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Stanford Leeham

October 26, 2019 at 1:41 am

Anayzing how robotics or machine can build as blueprints .. Figure out much more faster and old way of methold of wood holder and take off wood after concreat is melting

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