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2018-10-03 Science & Technology

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Posted by badanov 2018-10-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 I don't see this happening, not for a long while. I was on a construction site back in college, and I saw this French-Canadian guy do a 20' by 20' room, maybe bigger, in under an hour, including the ceiling, and it wasn't exactly a box-like straight cut room either. I'd know because my job was to lug the 1/2" thick 4' x 8''s up a flight of stairs to feed it to him. This guy beat the crap out of me that day, yelling at me the whole time because I was too slow for his liking. I don't know what the French phrase for 'fucking college kid' is but he was probably yelling it at me every three minutes.

Posted by Raj 2018-10-03 00:22|| 2018-10-03 00:22|| Front Page Top

#2 The first and easiest step to automate the construction industry would be to build a "fucking college kid" robot to hump drywall, shingles, bricks, mud, and pilot a wheelbarrow.

Posted by SteveS 2018-10-03 01:30|| 2018-10-03 01:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Sometime in 1940 - 50 Heinlein compared construction industry to car industry.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-10-03 02:49|| 2018-10-03 02:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Knowing the japanese it also does sex.

So it can build you a man cave, and then be "useful" in it!

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-10-03 05:09|| 2018-10-03 05:09|| Front Page Top

#5 "Putain de gosse d'Université".

Posted by Woodrow 2018-10-03 05:21|| 2018-10-03 05:21|| Front Page Top

#6 wonder if the robot can adjust between 1/2" and 5/8" drywall?

Posted by Deadeye Shuter4987 2018-10-03 07:55|| 2018-10-03 07:55|| Front Page Top

#7 I want to see it do electrical outlet cutouts, mud and corners. After that, wallpaper. I really want to see it do foking wallpaper.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-10-03 08:22|| 2018-10-03 08:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Especially with a pattern in an out of square room

Posted by Cheaderhead 2018-10-03 09:09|| 2018-10-03 09:09|| Front Page Top

#9 Ahhh you guys are giving me flashbacks.

Try lugging the doubles of dry wall, 2 sheets that come taped together, and getting them to the top floor of a Beacon Hill brownstone. One guy on each landing and you shoot (lift) them up to the next highest guy.

Those were the days, I thought they'd never end. 8^(

Posted by AlanC 2018-10-03 09:56|| 2018-10-03 09:56|| Front Page Top

#10 Square room? What is that?

Robo-gopher would be step one.

Posted by swksvolFF 2018-10-03 10:35|| 2018-10-03 10:35|| Front Page Top

#11 I don't know if it is a replacement for humans but it might be nice to have the thing working all night putting up drywall so the teams could come in the morning and do the edges and fine stuff and start painting.

Posted by rjschwarz 2018-10-03 11:14|| 2018-10-03 11:14|| Front Page Top

#12 How about robo-tape-mud-sander. Have a vacuum right on the sander, zoomba the particle tank to a dump spot.

Posted by swksvolFF 2018-10-03 11:32|| 2018-10-03 11:32|| Front Page Top

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