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Re:We’re in a productivity crisis, according to 52 years of ... by MattGaiser on Sunday September 17, 2023 @03:28AM (#37542431)
> And finally, apparently one of the reasons construction has seen no net productivity gains is because regulations have grown more complex and expensive. I bet that's true of many industries...

Also, construction appears to heavily involve manual labour. I am prepared to be wrong, but are there robots on construction sites yet or are humans still manually stacking brick walls?

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Re:We’re in a productivity crisis, according to 52 years of ... by sambazi on Sunday September 17, 2023 @04:13AM (#37542705)
haven't seen any bricking robots, yet.

thou ime construction has moved to prefabricated elements (import wall from factory) in order to cope with less skilled workers and higher labor costs while retaining some margin.

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Re:We’re in a productivity crisis, according to 52 years of ... by defrost on Sunday September 17, 2023 @04:16AM (#37542713)
We've got a couple here in Western Australia building houses (at least two seperate designs):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6IQB5S1N5I (2019 - 4 years ago)

Mind you we (Uni of West Australia) built a sheep shearing robot back in 1980 and use robot trucks | trains | excavators to mine ~ 800 million tonnes of iron ore per year.

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Re:We’re in a productivity crisis, according to 52 years of ... by b0in on Sunday September 17, 2023 @04:19AM (#37542730)
looking around online, yes there are robots. very very expensive looking robots like the Hadrian X and SAM100, both for stacking brick walls. but who is building full buildings with 100% brick these days*? we probably got more productivity gains when we stopped digging dirt manually.

My guess is that any tech like this coming out now is at the far right end of an S curve and the real gains are to be made politically and socially, though i doubt it's a regulation issue like the quote.

*turns out its australians.

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