Heavy lifting on construction sites involves quite a lot of unknowns and is safety critical. Some excavation could possibly be automated on probably on greenfie

Heavy lifting on construction sites involves quite a lot of unknowns and is safety critical. Some excavation could possibly be automated on probably on greenfield sites. Depends very much where you are building. In the middle of pretty much any European city for example, building the foundations almost certainly couldn't be automated much more than it is all ready. This is because you never know what you will find when you are digging. Example, how would you do auto plague pit detection? There is a fair amount of automation on sites already, piling rigs are semi-automatic and use relative GPS for setting out and various monitoring systems to control the speed of drilling and inflow of bentonite etc. Where automation will work best is when you have an easily defined problem. I don't know why we still bolt steel framed structures together, this is a problem that could be relatively easily automated with robots to lift, hold and weld up the pieces.