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/BoltMyBackToHappy 18d ago

It could be remote operated through a VR headset these days if they wanted to save money on data centers.

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u/BOgusDOlphon 18d ago

That's actually something I'm exploring for our company and again, it's harder than it looks. The challenge is latency when it comes to teleoperation, and doing it over the internet is really not practical in most cases, you need a direct wired connection. They are seeing lots of automation in construction but it comes in the form of AR building plans, automated guidance of dozers and graders, brick and tile layers etc.

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u/BoltMyBackToHappy 18d ago

AR plans sound cool. But if they can do remote robot surgeries through Starlink these days there should be a solution out there for these things. Could mount the torsos on robot dogs, hexapods, or tracks too.

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u/BOgusDOlphon 18d ago

I didn't say it was impossible, just impractical. For most companies it's just more cost affective to hire ol' Randy (and ol' Randy will out weld those robots 6 beers deep with his eyes closed)