Can a bricklaying robot lay bricks quicker than a human bricklayer? - BBC Click

I go head to head with a bricklaying machine that's being used to construct new houses with brick and mortar.
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[@jamessaunders1169]

What about wall ties ? Weep vents? Damp coursing ? Piers ? Lintels ? Absolute load of shite

[@graememaguire1939]

Expansion joints

[@jsaunders9804]

I’ll drive my van into this machine if I see it on site😂

[@1pcfred]

The word sabotage comes from the French word for shoe, or a sabot. Because in the past the workers would throw their shoes into the cogs of machinery in hopes of breaking it. FYI it didn't work.

[@micjubba709]

Not ya van use a jcb or backup a forklift into it lol

[@julianshepherd2038]

A.I. will crack the job eventually.

[@edwardbennett2072]

A good bricklayer will never be replaced ! Period !

[@1pcfred]

Never is a long time. Mechanization replaced many workers and now we are into the era of automation. Which is the next step.

[@liamwalters5029]

Feel a big track around the house could be a problem considering now most new builds houses are on top of one enough, never going to happen.

[@TheTwarag]

@1:34 lovely bit of facework that. nice looking belly on it too. it like to see it race a gang of decent brikies from footing up to wall plate.

[@kieran5969]

The brickwork looks shocking

[@garydonaldson5573]

Look at the state of the pointing

[@davebloke829]

4 a minute? I'd sack you!

[@brucetindal7399]

Who cleans up the excess mortar on the cavity side of the wall. And who points up the brickwork ??

[@GBPaddling]

Who puts ties in? D.P.C? Weep holes? Lintels? Cavity trays over lintels? Wall plates? Who cuts half bricks for window openings? Who cuts to rake on Pikes? Who cuts blocks for beam filling floor chambers............etc, etc.

[@leonpurdie4807]

Destroy that fucking machine I’ve literally just started my apprenticeship 😂😂

[@tommyb5244]

Don’t worry. Look at other videos they’ve been talking about bricky machines for years. Wont ever happen there is more to bricklaying then just straight runs😂

[@teddyruxspin8480]

Looks like a nightmare just setting up

[@deanlockyer2440]

Men please head these words. Fight the system and hold your right to work at any and ever opportunity deny progress that takes money out of our pocket and good out of our mouths. This is the devil's work.

[@Scumsuckingpigmonkey]

As a 55 year old "Time Served" Bricklayer with 6.5 years of collage training! (Advanced Craft, ONC) I would say that if any Bricklayer turned up to a site with this machine on they should, not so politely, tell the site manager where to insert his own appendage in himself and leave!

[@mattybro88]

4 brick a minute 🤣🤣🤣

[@jontullett9068]

As an apprentice i could lay 8 bricks per minute

[@1pcfred]

Remember the Luddites! They fought the good fight too.

[@michaelemerson1949]

Engineering gonna excavate a nice level path around the house to lay those tracks. But when I lay brick they can't engineer the paddle boards out the way of my stock or give me 2 feet to walk in!

[@liamc-rb9tz]

👍👍,,, isn't that the truth,,,, most of the time, you'd break a leg walking around a site,,,,, this thing is a bloody joke

[@robotguy4]

Ok, so automatic bricklayer is out, but what about an automatic brick SORTER? Would a system that could measure all the bricks then hand you the right bricks to lay out a perfect number to make a layer on a wall be useful?

[@liamc-rb9tz]

@@robotguy4,,,, again for the same reasons above, ie, uneven ground, etc,, that wouldn't be possible either.. Why are you so interested in robots taking over construction??,,, block, brick plastering has always and should always be manual labour,, EVERY OTHER industry has been taken over by automation,, making millions of people unemployed, now, one of the last areas of manual work,, creating hundreds of thousands of jobs both skilled and unskilled and you want to make them UNEMPLOYED???,,, get a bloody life for yourself

[@tomhinsley2905]

Simon and his four bricks a minute

[@paulnolan4464]

Try setting it up on a split level hill side build, 😆 🤣

[@rudo747]

I'm a bricklayer and to be honest some of the quality of that work doesn't look to good on the eye, I don't think you will ever do without bricklayers as the cost of that machine must be quite significant and you still need men along side it with a massive cost applied to that scaffolding as well, all thats required is companies start respecting bricklayers and stop putting profit before the quality and build times and put a good wage structure in place to achieve it ,we are also expected to lay materials that have been stored without any weather protection whatsoever,I do think the way forward is with modular buildings or kit form which are much quicker and not as hard on the individuals involved.

[@u2kjib4cjkqn]

What happens when you need to cut the brick,need other people doing the jointing waste of time never going to happen,uneven ground set up etc takes more people to set up and run then feed it

[@davidb800]

That robot must be on day work 😆

[@jeffreybresnahan]

Pick & dip rate can be up to twelve bricks, in a single minute and that is cleanly laid?

[@hayyoujimmy8560]

What alot of wasted money

[@gilespanton9354]

Looks like it's still years away from anything half decent that wall still didn't look like it was level plus the bricks we're out 🤣

[@liamc-rb9tz]

That guy laying the brick I would think its his first time handling brick.. On any job you probably will need to cut a brick, doesn't matter if a laser measures it or some guy with a one foot ruler, you will have half cuts, how's the machine gonna do that.. Another thing,, a good bricklayer could leave that machine sitting there. Another point,, how much will it cost?? Hell ofa lot more than a bricky

[@josephlyons6637]

You will never get a viz jacket, boots, goggles ear muffs gloves and all the shite i was made to wear to fit that machine. And how will it perform after a week end on the piss!!!!!

[@arthurandrew249]

Finding a good brick layer takes some doing today what I have see in my town of Oakham Gerry built there should all be called Tilt 😀

[@jasapp7690]

they never say how long it takes to clean out. they want to get rid of the humans

[@sammsammmsammmm]

Can it tooth out and build extensions as well, or actually leave a nice finish? 😂 nothing to worry about boys!

[@davedavids2231]

the stupidest idea ever

[@robotguy4]

As a computer engineer who has some experience in robotics, my thought is that they may find more buyers of this system if they were to market the brick sorting and measuring system, leaving the actual brick laying to the humans.

[@julianshepherd2038]

String, the mark 1 eyeball and a human muscle memory does it while chatting.

[@leebowen8364]

4 bricks a min lmao.

[@panamaJ]

The average age of a bricklayer is 50! Wow, really. Are no kids getting into the trade anymore?

[@mizzybeatsofficial]

When machines take over our jobs no one will be able to provide their familys no more, the richer just get richer. Gonna become one of them films from the year 2136 where poor is divided from rich.

[@Grumps76]

So don't see this doing the wall ties or dpc and weep vents not forgeting the cavity bats so total bolocks that this will take over from tea drinking bricky and i bet it don't have any banter lol

[@elliottdebell7783]

Two years to become a bricklayer 😂 improver maybe

[@seven9399]

Wall don't even look straight 😂😂😂😂 chubdy G laying bricks

[@krzychukrzychowiak810]

No wonder there are no takers since education in England is long long long and expensive way way. even these entry-level jobs consume too much time and resources, especially people who want to retrain.

[@GBPaddling]

Jesus H Christ, what an embarrassment. Don't know where to start with this, but it boils down to greed. If they paid decent rates, there would be no problems with Bricklayers, but they won't, and that's why I left site for the last time in 1994. All those houses will have to be rendered, and just look at the snots dropping in the cavities?

[@gittejakobsen177]

3 bricks a min thats a fucking joke

[@jeffreybresnahan]

The actual bricklayer who was there laying four a minute, is the joke?

[@gittejakobsen177]

@@jeffreybresnahan a robot laying 3 bricks a min is a joke. Wont make money from that.

[@jeffreybresnahan]

@@gittejakobsen177 Just "Pick & Dip" is being used on most site's now, I used to get bollocked by the two old brickies "Harry & Jerry", whom I was so lucky to have worked with, for laying really long mortor beds? "Stop laying the long bed's, and lay some fucking bricks"! Still hear them bollocking me now, and they were both really fast at laying both bricks, and blocks..

[@gittejakobsen177]

@@jeffreybresnahan well im from denmark 100% use pick and dip and it been so for 200000 years :)

[@jeffreybresnahan]

@@gittejakobsen177 20,0000 year's, all the way back to the Stone age? 😉 I "Pick & Dip", on my own property build work's, as my right hip is shot now with all the prior heavy loading out, so the less I have to turn around lifting a fully loaded "30cm x 20cm Marshall Trowel", of muck the better now? I use a worn down "300cm x 20cm Marshall Town trowel", which is now around 25cm x 15cm in size, dipping and laying just by moving forward.. 👍

[@utube1818]

Can a bricklaying robot lay bricks quicker than a human bricklayer? Will it start the job next Thursday as promised. Will sit around for hours drinking tea before it starts work? Will pack up early at the first sign of a drizzle of rain? Will it take a sharp deep breath if you ask it to work the weekend in order to finish on time as promised? Not that I am stereotyping builder, no no wouldn't do that.

[@utube1818]

@@CFCseventy I take it your a builder!!!!😂

[@axelpalfy7597]

is that machine faster? but it is not, it still needs to be taken to the construction site, built and programmed, while the masons will build half of the house, at the same time, it still needs people to handle transport and assembly, plus a highly qualified person for programming, so this is nonsense, it will never replace a person on the construction site,

[@williamosborne9829]

For feck sake cut of its mortar supply it's fecked an who makes the tea some robot wots next on site a site manager with a bitta sense

[@wellitsherenow]

All business and trades are looking for ways to take everyone's jobs for them. This is ridiculous! Do people not think of the future when Noone has a way to feed thier families

[@jeremykieffer7660]

4 per min lol. Find a new job sonny

[@mrc5653]

👀😂dreadful

[@MatsBengtsson]

Another lost job. Great. Another brick house without the touch and soul from a hard-working brick layer. Wouldn't want that house for that reason.

[@MySizeG]

😂😂😂😂

[@claycountykillers]

Those 3D concrete printed houses look like a future lawsuit. Something about them I do not trust.

[@panamaJ]

No rebar either

[@nickmagee-brown739]

Nice idea, if I had the money I would invest in this, you could make some serious profit off the back of this system. X

[@DenA0612]

The biggest load of bollocks you're ever likely to see. Don't worry lads, you'll NEVER be replaced. Just farcical to even test the idea 🤣

[@omar_mehtab]

The idea was never to replace construction workers - just assist as they continue other tasks :) and hopefully they'll be a great help as the tech improves

[@danielbaxter4978]

Takes two people to operate it.. it only takes two people to build a house.. so why bother with that stupid machine.. Why don’t we spend more time on recruiting new workers instead of these stupid robots that probably take a month to set up 😩

[@johncervantes7707]

We need new young backs

[@johnbowkett80]

Can it whistle at the women ? 😜

[@GBPaddling]

Can it read the Daily Sport, or drink tea straight from a flask? Does it need piccalilli on it's butties? If not it's no good to mankind.

[@scottnever8732]

how much? It dont clean cavity, it dont joint up, it dont do cut ups, it dont place damptrays or weep holes or lintels or wall ties. can't work on a 2 board scaffold and needs how many people to operate it?

[@fubar.1]

Same old story, a few get very wealthy with the machine, and thousands are sent to the dole queue. Technology has its place but not here

[@finders-keepers1518]

Still need humans to set it up, do all the layout (programming) and joint the work up. I just don't see the hype.

[@bigjmal]

That course of brick at 1:40 is completely on the piss!

[@DAVID-bv2gv]

Is it April 🤔🇬🇧

[@antmoore4712]

Dose it point up can

[@georgetoland3007]

Complete waste of money and a wealthy man's toy

[@BONZAI26]

Bucket mongs will win this war.

[@stuartnicklin4101]

Split level plots ? Trays? catnics? Dont think so .!

[@1973miniclubman]

4 bricks a minute 🤣 id piss that easy. 10 a minute easy if not more on a straight run.

[@eliotmansfield]

never saw it do the pointing - presumably the brickie needs to do it

[@michaelmclaughlin3537]

seems to drop a fair amount of mortar down the cavity, also with it measuring the brick each time id like to see how plumb the perps are

[@Johnboy891]

Brickwork looked messy

[@mizzybeatsofficial]

Let the robot try lay bricks on the inside walls lol

[@mickydola6472]

What a joke seen it all they doing there best to stop the working man work can see it breaking if on a site with the lads any time soon 😉👍

[@vijaychavda8367]

Man is not a proper brick layer,brick layer will lY much faster.

[@Therytetime]

Not a chance will this make bricklayers redundant! 😂

[@spanishpeaches2930]

With a couple of operators , this could run 24 hours a day