June 30, 2015Brick-laying robot can build a full-sized house in two days

The Hadrian robot can lay up to 1,000 bricks per hour

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As robots get smarter, cheaper and more versatile, they're taking on a growing number of challenges – and bricklaying can now be added to the list. Engineers in Perth, Australia, have created a fully working house-building machine that can create the brick framework of a property in just two days, working about 20 times faster than a human bricklayer.

Named Hadrian (after Hadrian's Wall in the UK), the robot has a top laying speed of 1,000 bricks per hour, which works out as the equivalent of about 150 homes a year. Of course there's no need for the machine to sleep, eat or take tea breaks either, giving it another advantage over manual laborers.

At the heart of Hadrian is a 28 m (92 ft) articulated telescopic boom. Though mounted on an excavator in the photo below, the finished version will sit on a truck, allowing it easier movement from place to place. The robot brick-layer uses information fed from a 3D CAD representation of the home for brick placement, with mortar or adhesive delivered under pressure to the head of the boom.

The boom auto-corrects itself 1,000 times per second to prevent interference from vibrations or sway. The concept is similar to the additive manufacturing process used by 3D printers, and it's several steps up from the Tiger Stone paver we've featured in the past, which is able to lay out a pattern of bricks on a flat road.

After pauses in funding, Fastbrick Robotics is now ready to launch the first commercial version of Hadrian at some point next year.

"The Hadrian reduces the overall construction time of a standard home by approximately six weeks," Fastbrick Robotics CEO Mike Pivac told Gizmag. "Due to the high level of accuracy we achieve, most other components like kitchens and bathrooms and roof trusses can be manufactured in parallel and simply fitted as soon as the bricklaying is completed."

Pivac says Hadrian improves site safety, reduces the level of waste created with each house construction, and cuts down on associated emissions too. And rather than taking human jobs, he hopes Hadrian creates them.

"The machine will fill the void that exists due to shrinking numbers of available bricklayers, whose average age is now nearly 50 in Australia," he says. "[Hadrian] should attract young people back to bricklaying, as robotics is seen as an attractive technology."

Mike's brother Mark is an aeronautic and mechanical engineer and has been working on the idea of Hadrian for 10 years, having been inspired by the technology he came across during his stint in the Air Force.

With seven million Australian dollars having been spent on the technology so far, Fastbrick Robotics was this week acquired by DMY Capital Limited, and is promising "very exciting plans that will attract global attention" in the near future.

"Bricks remain the most preferred product for home buyers everywhere due to their thermal and acoustic qualities, and this machine will keep it cost effective to use them into the future," says Mike Pivac.

砌砖机器人可以在两天内建造一幢新房子

6月30日，2015Brick铺设机器人可以在两种days建立一个全尺寸的内部

哈德良机器人可以躺上去每小时

图片廊1000砖（4张图片）

随着机器人变得更聪明，更便宜，更灵活，他们正在承担越来越多的挑战 - 与瓦工，现在可以添加到列表中。在珀斯，澳大利亚的工程师，已经创建了一个有效建房机，它可以创建在短短两天的属性的砖混结构，工作速度快约20倍，比人类瓦匠。

命名哈德良（后哈德良长城英国），机器人拥有1000块砖一顶铺设时速，能够统计出的每年约150家的等价物。当然，没有必要的机器睡觉，吃饭或喝茶休息或者，并赋予它超越体力劳动者的另一个优势。

在哈德良的心脏是一个28米（92英尺）的铰接伸缩臂。虽然安装在下面的照片中一台挖掘机，最终版本将坐在一辆卡车，使其更容易移动，从地方到另一个地方。机器人砖层使用从归属为砖放置的三维CAD表示供给信息，在压力下输送到起重臂的头灰浆或粘合剂。

所述吊杆的自动修正自身每秒1000次避免因震动或摇摆的干扰。该概念类似于用3D打印机的添加剂制造工艺，它的几个步骤从老虎石摊铺机，我们已经刊登在过去，这是能够制定出砖的图案在平坦的道路。

后在资金暂停，Fastbrick机器人正准备在明年推出哈德良的第一个商业版本在某些时候。

“哈德良约6周降低一个标准的家庭的总施工时间，”Fastbrick机器人首席执行官Mike Pivac告诉Gizmag。 “由于精确度，我们达到了较高的水平，大多数其他组件，如厨房，浴室和屋架可以并行制造，只是一旦砌砖完成安装。”

Pivac说哈德良提高网站的安全性，降低了水平废物与每个房屋建筑创建，并减少了相关排放了。而非以人的工作，他希望哈德良创建它们。

“本机将填补存在的空隙因萎缩可瓦工，其平均年龄为现在的近50澳大利亚的数字，”他说。 “[哈德良Hadrian这项技术，他自己在空军进站过程中遇到

经过7亿澳元已经用在了技术至今，Fastbrick机器人是本周DMY投资有限公司收购，并许诺“，将吸引非常令人兴奋的计划全球瞩目的“在不久的将来。

”砖仍是购房者比比皆是最优选的产物，由于其隔热和隔音素质，这台机器将保持成本效益使用它们未来，“迈克Pivac说。