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Re:Bricklayers Think They’re Safe from Robots by bluthru on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @12:18PM (#16699003)
It's probably anticipating corners and arches, but for the majority of bricks this seems quite inefficient. Bricks could be rolling off a conveyor belt in to place.
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Re:Bricklayers Think They’re Safe from Robots by tintor on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @12:54PM (#16699412)
Conveyor belt doesn't help, as you would still need an arm to take bricks from the pallet and place them on conveyor.
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Re:Bricklayers Think They’re Safe from Robots by bluthru on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @01:10PM (#16699589)
True. You could also have an unskilled laborer grab two bricks at once and place it on the machine at a rate of 1 brick every 2 seconds or so.
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