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- Wouldn’t this type of wall normally be built using heavy machinery without laborers lifting and placing heavy rocks? - A heavy machinery operator would no lo

- Wouldn’t this type of wall normally be built using heavy machinery without laborers lifting and placing heavy rocks? - A heavy machinery operator would no longer be needed, but wouldn’t you need 1 or more people to operate and manage the robot as well as verify the solution? It’s a really cool direction for construction but I wonder what the net/net cost savings would really be in the near future anyway.

maxglute 3y ago
There's probably a lot of savings to be had by lifting safety rules. Cram more machines to do more work on site and finish faster.
- beachy 3y ago
  I think this is great tech, but maybe not for those reasons. On any safe site, people are already very cautious and working well back from the excavator. Some teams have a protocol where you have to make eye contact with the digger driver before you can go anywhere within the sweep of its arm.
  - maxglute 3y ago
    But without the excavator operator, can you not cram more autonomous excavators to get more work done? Seems like sufficiently good sensors would allow them to work in each others safety zones for parallel work.
    - bluGill 3y ago
      Probably not as the soil they ig needs to go someplace. That means dump trucks will still be the majority of the site.
logtempo 3y ago
I don't like wars, but being able to build a wall out of some broken concrete blocks without it being man handled is a good feature I believe. Also being able to build during a long period of time (during the night for example) make the job less exhausting. Also one could think of it as an assistant: put some augmented reality display, and let the machine showing to the operator where to put the rock. Or help for building records: you keep the operator part, but you record the scans and position and weights during construction phase, so you can eventually run simulation later to know how the wall will change over time etc.

maxglute 3y ago

There's probably a lot of savings to be had by lifting safety rules. Cram more machines to do more work on site and finish faster.

beachy 3y ago
I think this is great tech, but maybe not for those reasons. On any safe site, people are already very cautious and working well back from the excavator. Some teams have a protocol where you have to make eye contact with the digger driver before you can go anywhere within the sweep of its arm.
- maxglute 3y ago
  But without the excavator operator, can you not cram more autonomous excavators to get more work done? Seems like sufficiently good sensors would allow them to work in each others safety zones for parallel work.
  - bluGill 3y ago
    Probably not as the soil they ig needs to go someplace. That means dump trucks will still be the majority of the site.

logtempo 3y ago

I don't like wars, but being able to build a wall out of some broken concrete blocks without it being man handled is a good feature I believe. Also being able to build during a long period of time (during the night for example) make the job less exhausting. Also one could think of it as an assistant: put some augmented reality display, and let the machine showing to the operator where to put the rock. Or help for building records: you keep the operator part, but you record the scans and position and weights during construction phase, so you can eventually run simulation later to know how the wall will change over time etc.