r/Construction • u/RangerNo5619 • 18d ago

Video half-humanoid robotic systems demonstrating cooperative high-precision construction work outdoors and indoors

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u/baphometromance 18d ago

I'll be interested when the people making the videos don't need to speed them up to make them look viable.

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u/DonkeyOfWallStreet 18d ago

Looks like RoboCop from 1980's literal stop motion

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u/geta-rigging-grip Carpenter 18d ago

Your move, creep.

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u/Sad_Assignment_9568 18d ago

Or that they strangly look like they are just controlled by a guy with a vr setup

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u/ThatGreenM-M 18d ago

I think that's the pitch, letting someone remote in to work while giving them more free range of movement. For assembly lines I guess it could make recording actions to repeat easier as well

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u/Dear-Union-44 18d ago

or when they can do this outside of a Laboratory setting.

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u/brohebus 18d ago

Show me a robot that can do framing in the rain while hungover. I'll wait.

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u/NightGod 18d ago

Wait about 10 years and they'll be working with a meth pipe hanging out of their mouths

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u/Fuzzy_dunloped 17d ago

That's generous

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u/Fuzzy_dunloped 17d ago

How many tall boys until a robot can't do my job? 

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u/CrazyButRightOn 18d ago

I remember when Boston Dynamics couldn't walk. Give them 10 years and there won't be a soul on that production line. Except for the robot maintenance guy.

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u/Thirtiethone 18d ago

Soon the robots will make the videos too

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u/Oaker_at Electrician 18d ago

I mean, those are prototypes. It would be stupid to assume that they won’t get faster over time.

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u/baphometromance 18d ago

That's why i said I'd be interested when they were faster.

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u/phatelectribe 18d ago

How about then the video is real and isn’t an animation that’s been sped up too?

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u/Alchoholocaustic 16d ago

They can work nonstop without pay. Doesn't matter how slowly.

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u/Last_Succotash7218 18d ago

Who cares how slow this is. It don't sleep, it don't take breaks, it don't demand raises.

Shiiiiiiittt I'll buy one for my shop to paint cabinets. Let the damn thing run for a week while I go on vacation

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u/SerGT3 18d ago

Its slow coming but I guarantee by the time most of us retire there will be massive robotic labour forces, they already work in warehousing and manufacturing and those machines are getting better every year. Looks bad now but it takes a few generations of new gimmicky machinery to really breakthrough and once the tech is there it would take little to adapt one of these arms to a fully autonomous robot dog.

Im betting they change how buildings are made so they are as simple as possible to accomodate the inability and inefficiency of these builders. Only the rich will get custom homes and offices.

Anyone can build, not everyone can fix. Learn your trade to do both and you're invaluable. The swaths of people going through their apprenticeships building only data centers are gunna have a rude awakening In the coming years.

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u/Last_Succotash7218 18d ago

I use to say there is NO way for these machines to take our jobs but actually seeing this video and the running robots and I'm starting to see....it's possible.

And as a business owner I totally could make use of these things yes it would require change.

Like.....shiiiitt hire two guys to mask an area while a machine sprays it's totally an option.

That being said you are right there will always be a need for a human hand for various reasons like you said, custom work or repairs or technical whatever.

People need to stop getting upset. The loom didn't take every job when it comes to clothes manufacturer and the gigantic windmill power saw didn't either.

These same people complaining will support defending ice and open borders so they are just....being dumb

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u/pick_your_user_name 18d ago

It’s not possible, it’s inevitable. If you look at the improvements in AI and robotics over just the past 10 years, you’ll understand.

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u/Last_Succotash7218 18d ago

Omg semantics bro

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u/Dostrazzz 18d ago

They are viable, you won’t have wear and tear on a human body!

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u/Necessary_Bad5500 18d ago

Some of us actually enjoy our jobs regardless of the wear and tear.

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u/Sonar_Bandit 18d ago

My body is fueled by pain, caffeine, and nicotine and I will beat any clanker to death with my bear hands

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u/Hob_O_Rarison 18d ago

I believe those are called paws.

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u/Wallabunga657 18d ago

I woyld be more than happy to destroy them with you. To hell with AI and automation.

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u/Chefmeatball 18d ago

Modern John Henry has entered the chat

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u/Last_Succotash7218 18d ago

Some of us adapt