Book 15, Question 92
How Can a Robot Build a Brick Wall?
A brick-laying robot has a long arm that picks up a brick, adds glue, and sets it in an exact spot! It follows a plan that says where every brick goes. It can lay a brick every few seconds.
More fun facts
- A robot laid all the bricks, blocks and mortar for a house in East Yorkshire, England, in a UK first.
- The bricklaying robot still needs a person to measure the site, set it up and tidy the mortar afterward.
- Other robots can put up drywall or lift heavy objects.
- For a robot, building a curved wall is almost as easy as a straight one.
- At a test house in Switzerland, robots built wooden floors and welded the steel frame of a curved wall.
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