Meet SAM100, the brilliant bricklaying robot that can place 1,000 bricks per hour

Leo Lee
By Leo Lee
March 3, 2017Style
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Meet SAM100, the brilliant bricklaying robot that can place 1,000 bricks per hour

Mark Pivac, inventor of the bricklaying robot, Hadrian, said that his bot can place 1,000 bricks an hour, enough to erect the walls of a house in two days of round-the-clock work—a task that, on average, takes a human crew four to six weeks of hard labor.

The robot works a little like a 3D printer, similarly taking its cues from a digital 3D model of the structure it’s building. Instead of extruding plastic or sintering metal, it cuts bricks to size, mortars them, and precisely lays each in place using a grasper at the end of a 28 meter telescopic boom.

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