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>Not destroying your body lifting heavy weights for 50 years seems like something people might like. And that's why the exoskeleton system mentioned in passing
by coldacid 5y ago
>Not destroying your body lifting heavy weights for 50 years seems like something people might like.
And that's why the exoskeleton system mentioned in passing in the article is more popular with construction labourers than any of these robots.
- minikites 5y agoBetter tools amplify human skills instead of attempting to replace them.
- dendrite9 5y agoThis always has seemed like a good goal to have. There is some work where automation makes sense, but I don't think replacing is always the right goal. https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/17/reverse-centaur/#reverse-centaur https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/17/reverse-centaur/#reverse-...
- imtringued 5y agoIt does sound like a mason that can lift 5 bricks at a time is more productive than a machine that can lay bricks 5 times faster in a synthetic benchmark.
- yodelshady 5y agoThink I'd put money behind a separate machine, but one that just delivers you the brick at hand height, rather than a continual bend-down/place/pick-up cycle. I would say "Brick Butler" or if a startup... Brcklr, the device is free, but the bricks have DRM and post instagram stories as you lay them.
- coldacid 5y agoYeah, that seems like the best plan. It might not improve the speed of bricklaying, but it would certainly be an improvement on the bricklayers' quality of life.
- themaninthedark 5y agoNice, also build a management interface so they can see the workers brick per hour stats. Add in GPS, keep all the data and later sell the database to insurance companies so they can charge higher rates for construction that happened too fast.