This is likely the truth. Land is expensive and they aren't making any more of it. They are far better off making more money per plot than potentially depressing the overall value of their houses by putting them up quickly in higher numbers. .
Robot bricklayers that can work round the clock coming to Britain
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This is likely the truth. Land is expensive and they aren't making any more of it. They are far better off making more money per plot than potentially depressing the overall value of their houses by putting them up quickly in higher numbers. .
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Im shocked its taken automation this long to catch up to be honest
What annoys me is how difficult it is to do a self build.
For example, in the states it’s normal to buy a building plot on a development. It’s up to you to then engage a contractor to build your house on your plot to your or an off the peg design which you chose.
Of course there is also the option to buy a prebuilt house from a big developer.
It's complicated, heavy machinery dealing with a lot of variables ranging from temperature, humidity and if it's sunny or windy and that's just the basic environmental ones, then you've got the mixture of the cement/mortar, the type of brick, condition the brick is in.
Basically just to deal with stuff a reasonably experienced human can adjust for on the fly requires a huge dataset and a bunch of sensors, my suspicion is that it's probably taken this long for the computing power, optical sensors etc to get cheap enough and rugged enough to deal with the working conditions reliably.
Then you've got the actual mechanical issues involved with moving the bricks into place (probably a lot harder than you think to get them in the right place in time, and allowing for the fact they're sitting on a soggy mush), and keeping the equipment running in an environment that is far less controlled than any factory, even just the safety requirements for something that's able to move hundreds of kilos of bricks and cement over a large area is not going to be simple to deal with.
Yup there is a reason why they still use humans to do things like plug in wiring harnesses on car production lines rather than robots - we can do it quicker and more reliably than a robot and thus its cheaper.
Robots are great at 100% repeatable actions in a controlled environment but if the thing they do isn't identical every time or it is is not in a controlled environment, they are not so good.
Robots are great at 100% repeatable actions in a controlled environment but if the thing they do isn't identical every time or it is is not in a controlled environment, they are not so good.
And they said become a tradesmen
Indeed - automate automate automate..
It's 2025 and we haven't got self driving cars figured out yet.
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What about the flying cars of the future that I was told about as a kid in the 80s?
They're yet to materialise.
Exactly, we are suppose to be living The Jetsons lifestyle now and we are not even close to it in 2025.
And everyone is worrying about AI and automation taking jobs like its going to happen tomorrow.
So many rules and regulations, never mind the technical limitations which is a problem on its own. We will be doing manual labour jobs for decades to come.
Don't worry people, you still be working till the day you die.
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The technology exists but the infrastructure to support it isn't there and governments probably don't want everyone having that much freedom
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With timber inner wall construction, fabricated off site and built first with temporary window and door reveals in place it would be easy to set a robot going building the outer skin.
You maybe need a laborer to mix mortar and hod carry bricks to its master.
You maybe need a laborer to mix mortar and hod carry bricks to its master.
As i said in the AI Jobs thread, trades is the last area you would want to move to for job security, pay and work quality as there is a fixed demand.And they said become a tradesmen
really? absolute nightmare round my neck of the woods to get hold of a good trade - they're all booked out for weeks if not months in advance. if i wasn't fast approaching 50 i'd genuinely be giving some thought to switching out of IT and into a trade career - tradies round my way can pretty much charge what they want (the good ones) given the amount of work available. i certainly don't see ai replacing the like of plumbers, sparks or joiners any time soon.
And what happens if the so called massive unemployment of desk based jobs happens? You will have millions of people who can move to working in the trades, but the demand will be completely static. The current supply might seem that it is insufficient, but it is almost certainly optimal to maintain close to 100% employment of the tradesmen and thus the income at livable level. The level of demand ensures that they are paid the livable wage, but they are certainly not getting rich and given the hours worked their pay is not that great.
demand for trades is almost entirely linked to population , so unless there is a massive increase in population there is no change in demand. You cannot invent a new widget or service that suddenly creates large growth.Like **** there is
This is very different to something in technology where you can create an entirely new product and see 1000% growth etc.
The required housing stock per 100K people is fixed, the utilities for each house is fixed. You cannot upsell significant new recurring revenue or new device purchases. Houses need electricity, plumbing etc which is all basically the same for every house. You cannot invent a new pluming system where people will shell out 10k or pay £50 a month to get some AI enhanced tap water or whatever.
You think that with a lower population you're still gonna have the same amount of tradies? How does that work then?
Also, as long as buildings are required, trades will be in demand. Building, extending, repairing, demolishing, you name it.
And who's gonna build, upgrade and maintain all this infrastructure for AI servers? You?
Not getting rich? Come to Surrey, you'll soon have that misconception corrected
