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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.

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  1. Jay Torr

    June 24, 2020 at 1:15 pm

    Dey dook ar djaaabs!

  2. Henry Thoreau

    June 24, 2020 at 1:16 pm

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

  3. Chris Tenorio

    June 24, 2020 at 1:17 pm

    What is Elon Musk buy the license for Moon based building?

  4. Mark_Porsche _911

    June 24, 2020 at 1:40 pm

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

  5. Daniel Hani

    June 24, 2020 at 2:20 pm

    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.

    • CNET

      June 24, 2020 at 3:09 pm

      It’s very clear. Thanks for watching!

  6. bossadave

    June 24, 2020 at 2:38 pm

    I’m bricking it already

  7. James Coakley

    June 24, 2020 at 2:53 pm

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

  8. C C

    June 24, 2020 at 2:56 pm

    Bull crap reason. Automation will result in less human workers. Look at the automotive industry as a historical lesson. Jobless percentages will increase in number. Tech is good but use it in building colonies on the moon.

  9. Peter

    June 24, 2020 at 3:13 pm

    Who needs so many houses??

  10. aj barry

    June 24, 2020 at 3:16 pm

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

    • King Crusader

      June 25, 2020 at 6:27 pm

      People who barely have an money may not be able to afford to maintain the house.

  11. David Anyadike

    June 24, 2020 at 3:16 pm

    Their brickkaying materials are much more impressive than their bricklaying robot – will they be producing that independently?

  12. Diego alkassar

    June 24, 2020 at 3:50 pm

    This is another project that never is going to happen.

  13. sel18

    June 24, 2020 at 3:52 pm

    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.

    • Adi Vemireddy

      June 25, 2020 at 3:57 am

      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.

    • sel18

      June 25, 2020 at 12:16 pm

      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.

  14. Suỵt Con bé đang ngủ

    June 24, 2020 at 4:19 pm

    You’re fired! Good luck never comeback again anymore time!

  15. TalsVids

    June 24, 2020 at 4:27 pm

    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.

  16. franki3Ru550

    June 24, 2020 at 7:04 pm

    Humans are old fashion.. and they always complain about everything and get mad and scam.. this is perfect

  17. John Gyver

    June 24, 2020 at 7:23 pm

    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.

    • Aussie Gamers

      June 25, 2020 at 1:36 pm

      Yeah ,Mazak mazatrol is fully automated . This is just a CNC crane with a grab and a concrete pump/special adhesive .

    • F Fuentes

      June 25, 2020 at 6:21 pm

      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.

  18. Gregorious

    June 24, 2020 at 7:29 pm

    Home that no one will be able to afford, because there won’t be any jobs.

    • austin bevis

      June 25, 2020 at 6:23 pm

      Unemployment due to machines is actually a good thing, believe it or not.

    • Kuto

      June 27, 2020 at 4:40 am

      @austin bevis elaborate please, i’m having a hard time understanding

  19. Quinn's Harmony's Beheld Service Entertainment

    June 24, 2020 at 7:39 pm

    I’m Having A Bad CyberPunk 2077 Feeling That They Going Too Regret Spoiling Some New Gameplay Shown Enough Already Your Better Off Watching The Gameplay On Internet For Free Without Buying The Game  (Maybe Bricks Robot)

  20. Ignacio Irurita

    June 24, 2020 at 8:42 pm

    How is this laying bricks without cement and the bricks are layed with massive gaps…

  21. Cat Randle

    June 24, 2020 at 9:18 pm

    Oh what happens to all those bricklayers

  22. Google King

    June 24, 2020 at 10:50 pm

    I come from a long line of brick layers. This angers me so much. My children won’t have the fortune of working for a company laying bricks.

    • Aaron W

      June 25, 2020 at 10:57 am

      You should want better for your kids than you had. How about encouraging your kids to pursue higher education, maybe an MBA and then own the brick laying company, that uses these robots.

  23. Sharen Deas

    June 25, 2020 at 12:52 am

    Wonderful! The more robots the better for precision, accuracy, fairness, and unbiased delivery of services.

    • lusurama5080

      June 25, 2020 at 7:48 am

      And less jobs, which means more poverty! So wonderful

    • Neki Lik

      June 25, 2020 at 10:27 am

      And more unemployed people…

    • David Heller

      June 25, 2020 at 5:00 pm

      lusurama5080 more stimulus checks for life

  24. Jay Garcia

    June 25, 2020 at 1:08 am

    Goodbye humanity….👋😬👋😬👋😬

  25. Lukas Trapp

    June 25, 2020 at 1:13 am

    It isn’t laying any mortar in this video so can it actually do it…

    • Aaron W

      June 25, 2020 at 11:06 am

      Watch and listen from 0:55

  26. Sage Oldmann

    June 25, 2020 at 11:15 am

    What are you going to do when you can’t get that truck on a work site. A robot will never be able to do the job of a human mason. There’s to many variables. And this is for taking people’s jobs away 🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻

  27. Alexander Damjanovich

    June 25, 2020 at 12:57 pm

    Is that grey brick better than cinder block? I ask because cinder block is awful construction material suitable only for disposable commercial construction.

  28. GID7OB

    June 25, 2020 at 1:26 pm

    Rip brick jobs lol

  29. Anthony Repetto

    June 25, 2020 at 3:58 pm

    prefab custom parts will be assembled by a gantry under a weather tent. bricks are too small of a component to assemble efficiently. entire wall segments, instead, with the ability to remove walls by unpinning them from supports, rather than now-you’re-stuck-with-it bricks, so that remodeling only takes two days. oh, and we’ll move to floating islands, because you can pick the government you want; so, everyone there is in support of it. the core city will be built all at once, tacking-on expansions only as needed. no bricks, sorry.

  30. David Heller

    June 25, 2020 at 4:59 pm

    What happens 20 years from now?

  31. For Wakanda

    June 25, 2020 at 5:43 pm

    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

  32. Pencil_vestor

    June 27, 2020 at 3:10 am

    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.

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