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Re:Where are the robotic bricklayers? by coderjames on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @08:54PM (#28056056)
Automated hamburgers at https://theroboburger.com/ and https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/16/business/white-castle-flippy-... and https://sf.eater.com/2018/6/21/17489084/creator-robot-burger...

Automated cement-pouring in place of brick laying at https://www.nbc12.com/2021/06/24/virginias-first-3-d-printed...

The robots have arrived. Unskilled labour needs to be concerned.

Re:Where are the robotic bricklayers? by chrisco255 on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @10:41PM (#28056614)
We'll see if / when they hit scale. From what I recall your 2018 example was a flop and the machine did not produce burgers any cheaper and needed a lot of maintenance from the staff in order to operate.

EDIT: Yes, they didn't last long: https://hackaday.com/2018/10/11/i-ate-a-robot-hamburger-befo...