This Robot-Built House Could Change Everything

The buyers of this new house in Australia are set to own a piece of history. Why? Because it was built by a great big robot. For more by Tomorrow’s Build subscribe now - bit.ly/3vOOJ98
Executive Producer and Narrator - Fred Mills
Producer - Adam Savage
Video Editing and Graphics - Thomas Canton
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[@RobinClower]

This seems way better than the 3D printed homes. The tech is similar just faster, it's smaller and has less setup only requiring a single truck, and it's aesthetics are conventional

[@SunSailor]

I would expect a mixture of both for the future, as conrete work is still needed. These baby steps only provide a single aspect, in combination, they may raise skyscapers in the future.

[@kirkc9643]

There was 2 vehicles

[@pissyourselfandshitncoom2172]

_"it's aesthetics are *conventional*"_ That's not really valuable. Maybe for conservatives who value tradition. But change is welcomed by everyone else. Progress is a good thing

[@nathangraham2895]

I think a great solution would be a hybrid, 3d printing the walls and using a robot arm for other stuff such as building the roof and adding windows

[@reksiohundson8706]

Nope , I think answer is combination of those two techniques . as building 2 stories could be issue with only one technology , my proposition would be : for first floor use robot building with bricks , and for second floor 3D printed . (BTW ground floor I count as first floor , and first as second)

[@Xiph1980]

Interesting machine, but man, that neighborhood looks horrific! What's the use of a freestanding home if you don't actually use the area for a garden? Might as well get an apartment.

[@woodvineandco]

Unfortunately that's how they look anyway. So probably nothing todo with the machine. As soon as I saw the thumbnail I was like looks like all the crap they build in Perth.

[@DanielFenandes]

You think this.neighbourhood Look horrific? Lol that is surely a first world problem.

[@neeljavia2965]

@@DanielFenandes Exactly.

[@akalion213]

@@DanielFenandes Yeah no shit dude he's not comparing it to an African hovel.

[@DanielFenandes]

@@akalion213 you'd be shocked to know that probably 80% of the world lives in a worse looking neighborhood than this

[@goober7535]

I love the level of thought put into each of these videos. Instead of just advertising new tech like other channels you guys question the claims made by these companies. Love it.

[@oasishurl]

Having it on a truck is genius. MIT was working on this, but they settled for only building things with light and a long exposure photograph...They were so close to the future of construction.

[@kareandersson]

If I can buy that house for half the cost of a regular house, I am all for it.

[@lemster101]

Proud to see this in Australia. A little less proud to see the types of homes we're still building (massive footprint, poor use of space, zero insulation)

[@SensationsRim]

Wow. No insulation at all? Cheapo developers. I woundnt want to live in brick/cinderblock house in an earthquake zone anyway. Maybe it's reinforced but I still wouldn't want I live in a crumbly Lego house

[@NadeemAhmed-nv2br]

You do know concrete itself is a mess of insulator compared to Wood homes with fiberglass. They have better insulation right off the bat even though they don't have fiberglass and their insulation holds up over time versus leaks that develop in Wood homes within twenty years and I say that as a person who has a concrete home that doesn't use any fiberglass or foam insulation and even 40 years later, whenever I put all the blinds up and turn on the heater for a little bit, I can goa day without turning it back on and only for a little if that

[@tsubadaikhan6332]

@@SensationsRim I live in the city shown. We don't have earthquakes here. We've got caves with 40,000 year old paintings & even a rockshelf with Dinosaur footprints still showing on it. I was in Japan once when they had a little quake that didn't bother the locals, but it scared the beJesus out of me because I'd never been near one. And double brick is a great insulator, & we put some recycled stuff in roofs now.

[@lemster101]

@@NadeemAhmed-nv2brI wasn't referring to the concrete outer walls on their own, but to the build as a whole. Fact is that our country builds cheap homes with next to no insulation. Regardless of material used for the walls. High efficiency glazing is a foreign concept here for example. The construction code regarding efficiency is minimal. People are used to using heaters and air conditioners for everything and have no problem running them all day.

[@letsburn00]

@@SensationsRim This is Perth. The lowest temperature we ever recorded here is -1C. About 30F.

[@woodvineandco]

Before anyone blames the machine that's just how bad average new neighbourhoods look in Perth.

[@steve8421]

Give me land. You look out the windows in this Australian housing development and see nothing but the walls of your neighbors house.

[@waylonk2453]

I couldn't bear living there

[@woodvineandco]

@@waylonk2453 it's my nightmare 😂 😂 😂

[@AcidJiles]

Australia has loads of space. Why the terrible space usage and dislike of 2nd stories?

[@garcsstuff6734]

@@AcidJiles house prices

[@almostanengineer]

This looks more promising than 3D printed houses.

[@kestekrafts1580]

loved that stock footage comment at the end, was on point

[@supercadet111]

Am I the only one not seeing the bonding agent (mortar) in these videos? Or is this just marketing stuff, so they didn't want the true messy look in their B role?

[@user-fs4sm8lt4u]

Exactly.where is the fucking mortar.I only see a black mix being poored for steel bar anchorage in the brick cause i think its a reinforced masonry structure

[@OperationDarkside]

You can see it in some scenes. Maybe the scenes you mean, are engineering footage. Also a machine needs less mortar, because it doesn't need it to correct errors.

[@jimurrata6785]

The arm is wiping it on the bottom/head joint as the hand pivots the brick away from the conveyor. I'm assuming the threaded rod being installed by humans is going to be grouted solid into the cavities.

[@craigmortell]

it uses an adhesive rather than mortar.

[@johnschroeder3072]

@@jimurrata6785 There was some footage of grout or similar being poured in around some of the rod.

[@DrClausewitz]

a normal build neighbourhood lmao. this looks pretty confusing for a european

[@TomorrowsBuild]

We hear you 😂

[@user-uf2df6zf5w]

I dont understand the joke.

[@Migzeh]

I live in Perth where this house is. Every suburb in the last 30 years looks like this. Whats confusing about it?

[@BrosBrothersLP]

@@Migzeh whyare the houses 95% of the land. Where are the trees. Why does everyhouse look the same. Why is everything rectangular

[@olmkiujnb]

And why is everything only single or double story? European architecture differs starkly from american/australian architecture due to less space available

[@malachaiuys711]

*Why does a literal continent, that has a mere 20-something million people living in it, have to build homes in such a cramped manor with no yard space?*

[@christcombiccombichrist2651]

Concentration camp

[@brendanrodgers9753]

Because a majority of their population is tucked into the far South East, majority of their land is outback

[@brendanrodgers9753]

@Timothy Mckee I was referring to Australia

[@brendanrodgers9753]

but I hope the Chinese people overcome that 🙏

[@someonegotwill]

because 85% of the population lives within 50km of the coast; the centre is a desert and no-one can, let alone want to, feasibly live there

[@Dampy.69]

This is exactly what I've been imagining as a house 3D printer. It's mobile so it's easy to set up on site and the house won't look like a concrete cream cake afterwards either.

[@wadeguidry6675]

This reminds me of the robotic packing machine we used at a chemical plant in the production of large rubber blocks. The last step before shipping was to pack these 75 pound blocks into an aluminum container that held one ton of them. It stacked them in a certain pattern that was efficient and safe for shipping.

[@linmal2242]

Excellent use of mechanical advantage. Better than lifting them yourself !

[@Uberfluous404]

"Those workers could be retrained to do" yeah right. Because Brickies are computer savvy.

[@metadreamland]

How hard do you think training is nigga

[@collection6062]

@@metadreamland not hard when everyone has a computer injected into their brain.

[@waylonk2453]

You got a laugh out of me. So true!

[@MattYZFR125]

Give em some coke and your sorted 😂

[@garfieldarbackle3363]

Wendover Productions: Am I a joke to you?

[@FPVsean]

I'm irish and that neighbourhood looks rather odd, houses are very squashed together, and there's no back yards or recreational space around the homes.. Wouldn't Australians want to be able to relax out in the sun on cooler days and evenings??

[@Xiph1980]

My idea exactly. That neighborhood looks completely soulless.

[@FPVsean]

@@Xiph1980 my suburban nightmare lol

[@georgescott6967]

It's a modern housing estate where the developer's only aim is to maximize profit - livability is not a concern. The smaller each block of land the greater the number, the greater the profit. The limiting factor will be planning regulations.

[@michaelbarnett2077]

The Australian dream right there. Classic modern subdivision, pack them in, build cheap houses, make profit!

[@tsubadaikhan6332]

I make my living servicing swimming pools in neighbourhoods just like this one. Some houses do have more room than appears in these shots. But they are way closer together in new suburbs. Some of these poor bastards spend 2 hours a day in traffic because they'd rather live in a house than an apartment. I guess it's easier if you've got kids.

[@studylondon5362]

Imagine ordering a house on amazon and tracking its progress within the app....

[@absolutelynotnormal]

Not a bad idea. Lol 😆

[@mikelytou]

Hm. Free shipping, 1 day Delivery in big cities, 30 days return policy? I'd definitely consider it.

[@alexismiller288]

Certainly possible. Sears had homes made to order from mail catalogues a hundred years ago.

[@seBcopTer]

It will happen!

[@Samuel_J1]

At first I thought the machine looked really slow, and then you say it's 10x faster than a human brickie!

[@geomonabe]

well the bricks are 12x bigger, so makes sense

[@thirdvect0r]

Just make the brickie 12x bigger, simple really.

[@kaneworthington]

@@thirdvect0r 😂😂

[@dominick253]

@@thirdvect0r cinder block

[@Dawid-kn6mv]

And 30 times more expensive.

[@MattCooperKay]

I'm confused by the intentional gap between each brick?

[@JackSparrow-hh2lh]

insulation most likely. an air gap insulates a lot better than you might think, its very common in germany for example

[@DanielRichards644]

dry stacking the bricks, must be a test run of the machine to make sure everything is functioning right, I would expect they took them down and redid it with Mortar.

[@DanielRichards644]

@@JackSparrow-hh2lh a gap between an inner and outer layer of wall sure, but these gaps are not that, gaps like this would be a massive air leak.

[@CristMakhanya]

For steal re enforcement.

[@Mr_G_in_Alba]

The gaps you mention are usually filled by the bricklayer, not only do filled "perps" close the cavity between outer and inner skin, but they give the wall a greater structural strength and added stability. I doubt it will be a massive issue for them to fix, but as is........ i doubt the house wouldn't pass UK inspection.

[@stevechance150]

Average house price in the US in 2021 is $375,000. After robots start building houses and cut the "labor" cost in half, the average house price will be $375,000.

[@T1Oracle]

In other unrelated news, yatch purchases are up and there's a new shortage in private jet pilots...

[@haha-eg8fj]

That's a good thing, isn't it? You need people to dig the materials out and turn them into robots and you also need salespeople to sell them to development companies.

[@jackburton8947]

The claw knows where it is because it knows where it isn’t.

[@Richard-qh8my]

I'm a builder in Florida, USA. This would be great for our area as we build mostly with concrete block for our structures and not wood frame. While 3D printing is an interesting idea, the transition and/or adoption here would probably be an issue. We engineer our structures to with stand hurricane winds so having a machine that uses our current concrete blocks would be great.

[@mefobills279]

The blocks are justified. That means they are cut to precise dimensions. That is why such thin joints

[@user-rp5sr6os7u]

For the prices of home in Florida, they need to have steel all the way up to the roof, like what we use in Jamaica.

[@johngullo9420]

Wow. Those houses are really jammed close together.

[@DaiAnanta]

Looks terrible. You can tell by all the buildings that overcrowd any city or smushed together suburb that humans still haven't learned to live in harmony with nature. People sure know how to fatten their pockets though.

[@puffinjuice]

Hideous. I would never buy in such an ugly neighbourhood. If you don't want a garden, then buy an apartment or town house!

[@ShakilAhmed-kf5nd]

Future advertisement - "You can't replace the character from a hand-made home. Buy a genuine human built house today!"

[@waylonk2453]

Haha, seriously! Though I don't see robots being used on the construction site for any other work than menial tasks. I do home renovation, and lemme tell ya there's a lot of nuances involved with interior finish work.

[@RedstoneNinja99]

Watch the show Humans

[@buddyclem7328]

@@waylonk2453 It would take a lot of technology to replace skilled finish carpentry!

[@edwardsisson3580]

More human...than human

[@HeHeHaHa146]

4:00 THE CLAW 🤣😂 good job editor

[@bdawg3942]

As a long term shareholder, I’ve enjoyed reading the comments and that FBR are finally getting some decent exposure 💪. Firstly, FBR are about offering simple and affordable housing, and are in existing talks with both Saudi & Mexico.Both we’re released as announcements on ASX, and we have no reason to believe that they aren’t still active. The adhesive is used by European builders, and both Weinerberger and Xella are in MOU agreements with FBR and both announcements were released on the ASX. Once again we have no reason to believe that they aren’t still active. Also the environmental benefits of the HX with minimum waste, able to work 24hrs, will also be a massive selling point. Perth is a very sandy , hot & harsh place in the summer and we are currently experiencing a much cooler wet and windy winter. Please don’t take this as financial advice, it’s just a quick insight into FBR, I’ve held for years and believe this could assist with the worlds lack off housing 😊👍

[@ravenfeeder1892]

Given the accuracy of lasers couldn't the bricks be laid so close togeter they don't need as much if any mortar. Especially if you have jigsaw shaped joints at each end. Some stone and bronze age buildings had amazingly tight toleances between stones and those are weatherproof 3000 years later.

[@trizthe1]

👏👏🙌

[@Shadow1986]

It's not the accuracy of measurement that's the issue, it's keeping a big heavy brick so steady at the end of a long beam

[@marabooq7150]

The way the Incas built their structures is also a beautiful example of this, with their terraces and such not needing mortar due to how carefully they shaped the stones they used there!

[@aquariandawn4750]

@@marabooq7150 don't forget, the Incas have always historically denied being the builders of the megalithic structures.

[@marabooq7150]

@@aquariandawn4750 ooh I did not know that, thanks for sharing

[@maryj9897]

Innovation at it's best. Excellent Australia. More please.

[@jasonclark5484]

I really like the bits of humor mixed throughout, nicely done.

[@Mufcforever-sl2gf]

Not gonna lie I doubt many building companies are gonna fork out to retrain bricklayers when automation takes over. Wishful thinking I guess

[@geomonabe]

they may just lay off the layers. pun unintended

[@ceoatcrystalsoft4942]

It's a long term process. The jobs will be converted over but capitalists won't directly help their employees they layoff

[@ianfirth33]

Brickies won't run out of work, average Brickie in Oz is aged 50+, brickies are a dying breed. brickies demand a premium in Perth atm.

[@massimoscognamiglio7369]

They'd go into other trades. Become painters, welders, carpenters; depending on age, interest, and local opportunities.

[@photovideooz4084]

they going to get new jobs and educations, they'll become robotic specialist one day.

[@QuentinWatt]

Building houses shown at 0:42 makes me question why these people don't just live in apartment blocks. Do you have no love for outdoor spaces in your back yards? I get that building codes probably won't let them go double story, but honestly if the whole neighbourhood just ends up looking like this, it's a monumental waste of good space.

[@photovideooz4084]

you can put your own design on CAD system.

[@linmal2242]

What actually happens is builders try to cram as much house on to as cheap and small a piece of land as possible! Disgusting these new subdivisions, with little to no side separation or backyard as with houses built in the past. Dollars count, so land sizes are reduced, and couples desire all the mod-cons, so houses get bigger, land gets smaller !

[@TheGuyThatEveryoneIgnores]

They might as well just build townhouses.

[@ConstructiveMinds100]

Housing crisis is because human greed. NOT BECAUSE OF LUCK OF ROBOTS. HOW STUPID SOME PEOPLE MUST BE TO SPREAD SUCH BS.

[@nigelsmith7955]

Living that close together with absolutely no privacy, no yard, one spark and you loose a whole block! Wonder if you made people move into nice spacious apartment building only say four floors, nice shared green space with real trees even!! Or with roof top gardens they would freak out! Even better just build one long house along the whole block stick a flat roof on the apartment strip and under ground parking! Lol! This is really a horrible way to live like this!!! If this was a poor neighborhood they would be calling it a slum….

[@Ajibolaa]

This is one of the best videos I’ve ever watched props. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@projectw.a.a.p.f.t.a.d7762]

Technologies are slowly getting into every industry and it will revolutionize them all.

[@thisislilraskal]

I'd love to see more of this kind of technology in future videos

[@timwasko847]

Maybe for the masonry industry. But this robot isn’t changing anything for the Electricial, plumbing, hvac. So much more goes into a building then just laying the brick.

[@haha-eg8fj]

It takes time to evolve.

[@timwasko847]

@@haha-eg8fj ya everyone knows that. The title literally says this robot built house when all the robot does is lay the bricks…. That’s why I said way more goes into a house then the bricks. This is not a robot built house…. It’s a house with robot laid bricks that is all that it is.

[@_tkoc]

Great video!

[@Architectofawesome]

This looks great!

[@curtiscarpenter9881]

More passive housing what the UK needs. Insulated concrete forms ICF'S, more affordable housing rebuilding in wasteland in cities even 3D printed houses too, replacing outdated methods.

[@jamescrud]

Seems like it does just a small part of the total construction tasks.

[@laundrylurker3242]

That's the point...?

[@dimvoly]

Yeah, you can't even get off the critical path after the machine as you still need the roof trusses + roofing. And 3 days for a machine per house is a joke, hope they improve that aspect. Should be less than a day per house.

[@tigeroll]

@@dimvoly I think it will be soon and they could use two brick laying trucks to be twice as fast. They may even be able to coordinate 3 brick laying trucks for large homes to be built in a day.

[@StormComing247]

But it disrupted many steps in the house building process as explained, any small disrupting stone will have a big ripple in the construction industry

[@MrLeonardoibarra]

You had me on "The claaw", congrats for the great content.

[@dxutube]

Beautiful fidelity to the finished product

[@AlecMuller]

The robotic system looks great, but for future videos on topics like this, could you explain how the gaps between bricks are filled in more detail? Is the glue only on the bottom surfaces of the brick and the sides get filled when you pour the internal vertical holes?

[@linmal2242]

Holes are not filled. Just glued top n bottom.

[@Jameson1776]

I am a commercial carpenter and worked on a police station when a robot was trialed on my job. It ended up having to be redone because of subpar mortar placement. This was about 5-7 years ago so things may have changed.

[@TomorrowsBuild]

That's interesting to hear. What was the reaction to it being on site? What did people make of it?

[@Jameson1776]

@@TomorrowsBuild well I’ll tell you the masons where the happy it being there. But it was pretty cool to see. Wish I would have taken pictures of it.

[@Jameson1776]

Also besides the masons it does cause worry for other tradesmen about job security. As well as the pension and good pay as union members we have been working towards an schooled for. But in the end I’m a big nerd for new technology and do see the benefits.

[@tigeroll]

This is really impressive!!! I'm ready to buy a home NOW!!

[@MRRookie232]

Great idea to create this sister channel! Brilliant content

[@arec_s7]

Tsutomu Nihei's, "Blame!," anyone? is this the first "Builder?" 👾

[@mathewhowe4185]

I hope this company does really well as I bought shares in them 5 years ago. I just think we are not going to going backwards with technology anytime soon. Humans and machines have been working side by side for hundreds of years. Let's hope we can keep it that way and get some nice comfy houses along the way. Keep at it FBR!

[@Catthepunk]

How is the company going?

[@micheltibon6552]

Eyeopening!

[@takudzwamashamba7453]

Real people have bought it with real money - that’s assuring!

[@markrowland1366]

The natural reaction to a shrinking workforce is to pay attractive wages.

[@thenormalyears]

they would rather die than pay people enough to live on

[@fardinahsan2069]

The natural reaction to to go for the cheapest route possible.

[@xaviercopeland2789]

No it’s is not in any sense.

[@Lexman00]

OR, don't give people "free" money. OR, bring in immigrants. OR, just tell the government to stop stealing people's wealth via money supply expansion.

[@JRWall-hf9mq]

​@@Lexman00 - Sounds like you want to return to the 1800s, when working people were treated as cogs, disposable, worked to death, practically and effectively slaves. Children getting in industrial accidents at a disturbing rate. Absolute poverty as far as the eye can see. All of us choking on peasouper goop - nothing quite like brown, oily rain to remind you of your place. All so Johnny Banks can have another million in his pockets. Maybe that's not what you think will happen, but if we start revering back to guided age policy, we revert back to the guilded age, which was, without a doubt, the second worst time to be alive. (The worst being when the Black Plague was at its peak). Your ideology of radical individualism and your crippling, Dawinistic, dog-eat-dog mentality KILLS people. We are a social animal. It could be said that we're a pack animal. Your beliefs are homicidal and go against our natural instincts. They make existence on every level worse. All to benefit a few psychopaths. Regulation saves lives. Social security saves lives. Universal healthcare and education saves lives. A jobs guarantee saves lives. Community saves lives. Collaboration and cooperation rather than competition saves lives and more importantly makes life worth living for the greater majority.

[@kenskinner6948]

Absolutely brilliant

[@bdawg3942]

Unfortunately wasted in sleepy Perth at the moment. We need world wide exposure

[@TheHighHost]

i love your videos! Only channel i really wanna watch now! Please make more video about robotics.

[@Lakish_Narayan]

Pause a few milliseconds after [8:53] the light shining over gives a better outlook on block placement accuracy, but definitely, an exciting innovation would be great to see how thing progresses over the next few years!!

[@WhiteTriForce]

Even with automation, you will always need a human involved ! 🎯 I was a Unimate robot operator in the 1980s ! 👇😎👍

[@dfs7979]

I’m confused about the wall assembly. Is there external EPS insulation added? What is common practice to finish the interior? Are furring strips added then plaster board? I saw some dot and dabbing in one of the clips. Are utilities run through the floor and into the brick or through a chase between the brick and plaster?

[@Spazwozzler]

The houses here in Perth are double brick exterior. The interior is finished with render/plaster and then painted. Utilities are run through the roof space and down into the wall cavity, or the walls are chased if it's an internal wall.

[@kcheong00]

You can also direct stick plaster using masonry glue. Plasterers don't love using it all the time but don't mind. The biggest issue with the masonry glue is ensuring you stick perfectly flat and plumb. Because the brick wall was precision laid, it should be perfectly flat (in theory, haven't seen the product in practice). You can use smaller dabs of glue to reduce the amount of small humps in the plaster. You don't necessarily have services in all the walls. If so, i'm sure they can use furring channels or have the services chase it into the wall. I highly doubt insulation was added to internal walls, since it is brick which provides are decent amount of insulation. Common practice is plasterboard on the inside. Only in very special cases plaster white set render is used.

[@Thevikingcam]

This system is a bit fake, there is NO way the bricks just stands without any clueing layer between them, on the bottom and sides. I bet the bricks what the machine did they just removed them and manually, by hand, laid them with plaster etc. Polyurethane isn't too enough to "glue" without filling the inside of those bricks with cement . In my eyes this is still far away from real application to be used anywhere.

[@onetrueone]

@@Thevikingcam There is glue on the bricks and they did reinforce it with metal beams inside the bricks and filled it up with some liquid that probably hardens.

[@raucousreg9064]

The blocks have cavities which line up - no need to chase

[@MTRO_raps]

well done Dave!

[@Xambonii]

Wow, you all really turned up the wit to 11 on this one! I think I love it!

[@dsjjvfdjkdd]

8:53 Lol. The light shining across the wall shows the "super accurate" brick placement The gaps between the bricks also wasn't explained.

[@mick0matic]

You can actually see the arm move as it sets and loads a new brick. Very accurate indeed..

[@sergiorivasisla]

Love the humour 😂

[@TomorrowsBuild]

You're welcome 😉

[@4doorsmorewhors]

Building a house with no mortar is not humour..............

[@cyndiharrington1751]

Well DONE..

[@kharledweedgenazaire3556]

Wow amazing

[@noone-qg1od]

Well at least that's all the brick layers out of work, who's next?

[@justicedemocrat9357]

Your mom.

[@jonathantewnes1224]

Truckers as well

[@linmal2242]

Brickies will become tilers !

[@SecretAgentMan00]

Cutting costs but keeping prices the same..... well played

[@tangkimsruy8271]

Thank for getting Phnom Penh city, Cambodia put on your video.

[@frieltube]

Heck yeah! I want one to install kitchen cabinets.

[@voidremoved]

there is no hope for the future. Look at all those houses, packed together. They might as well live in a big apartment building and have less of a footprint. You live so close together anyways. Stack those houses up and use the land for parks, gardens, nature, food, wildlife, sanity.

[@s4lino]

Use delivery robot for concierge while you at it for those simpler tasks like delivering letter, uber eats and a parcel through dedicated lifts and free the main man or woman stationed for smarter tasks and we are heading into the future

[@xn4pl]

Go and buy an apartment in multiple stories building and enjoy noisy neighbors screaming, stomping, dogs barking for any reason, constantly drilling something, drowning your apartment from time to time, close your water, because they repairing leaky tubes, etc. But let people decide for themself if they want to live in their own home, without neighbors behind their wall, having even though small but still a patch of real land that they own, having a garage where they can store their car without sharing a space in parking lot and store instruments and parts they can use to care about it. Earth is big and there's still a LOT of places where people aren't cramped like in Europe, so we still can choose how sparse we want to live. Any choice has its pros and cons and it's up to everyone to decide for themself depending on their situation.

[@captainpinky8307]

people don't want to hear their neighbor's talking which is why they hate apartments. also fire's remember things catch fire.

[@strawwagen]

Large apartments aren't the only option, rowhouses, etc, can be a great compromise

[@Bertuzz84]

Yes i agree, why does the anglosphere always have these weird ways of doing stuff. I loved my row house suburb where we all had football fields, swings and slides to play. Also ponds were everywhere throughout the neighborhood. This just seems like some hyper individualistic massive personal space but no common space model. It's like a segregated neighborhood. Kids would feel practically imprisoned, because they can't go anywhere due everything being so far apart. My parents were contemplating moving to Australia, New zeeland or canada when i was a kid. I'm glad that we didn't end up leaving the Netherlands for one of these kind of soulless neighborhoods.

[@kittehRwin]

Good Bye construction labor jobs In Australia, the barriers to homeownership are to do with price, and have about 3% of housing that is empty which could home the entire homeless population twice over.

[@HowlinMadBob]

yeah, you think they give someone a small dwelling and they can work to live in it...oh wait, that's what we all do now.. Ok IDK then.

[@birdrocket]

3% is actually super low vacancy and includes housing that is between occupants, empty for renovations, dilapidated, etc. Building more housing helps raise the vacancy rate, and lower rent prices. More vacancy gives renters more power in negotiations with landlords, too, and it helps people find places that they want to live in easier and with fewer roommates. That being said, we still do need a housing-first approach to helping the homeless

[@linmal2242]

@@birdrocket Spot on. Whatever happened to the state housing commissions?

[@com64able]

Jaw dropping!!!

[@joshmcdonald9508]

Those Aussies really came through with a winner this time. Holy cow that thing is handy!

[@ssruiimxwaeeayezbbttirvorg9372]

don't compere it with bricks laying, compare with cinder-block/foamcrete blocks laying

[@massimoscognamiglio7369]

I'd like direct comparisons with cost of labor. That machine looks expensive to operate, with its own custom bricks. How does it stack up against a crew of guys?

[@linmal2242]

@@massimoscognamiglio7369 It will only work on large, boring projects where it can be cost efficient to bring it on site.

[@massimoscognamiglio7369]

​@@linmal2242 I hope this thing never operates in my country. It would cause there to be less money for the working man, and more money for corporations.

[@CsehCsaba]

And the robot will build houses for who? For robots? That few ppl will have enough house all over the world..

[@MadMadOne]

Don't expect these homes to cost less in USA. Somehow they managed to make prefab homes more expensive than site built homes.

[@thatsinteresting8810]

This has alot of potential

[@keeganbrown9967]

Awesome technology!!! I wouldn't mind having a robot build my home. Although I'd have a couple acres instead of a 50 x 50 lot

[@membear]

Wouldn't it be easier to use prebuilt wall sections like 10 feet tall by 6 feet wide, some will have windows already cut in and others will have doorways cut in.

[@linmal2242]

I just watched them go up yesterday. Big crane, semi load of pre-casts, lots of blokes in hard hats! Had them all up in one day! More tomorrow.

[@EnnTomi1]

so proud this is coming from my city, the same as the uni i and faculty i studied !!!

[@danielsykes7558]

This is wicked

[@thefrub]

Imagine if we were allowed to build our own homes like they did back in the 50's. Nowadays you need so many licences and it will still cost you about half the price of a new one. No more $2,000 sears kits.

[@alexiscardetailing2678]

First home ever owned (mom and dad) was a sears kit home at 40'000$! :( We all miss those days.

[@waylonk2453]

Our family is building a house to live in right now. My father is quite skilled with everything structural and can do finish work too. We hired a company to pour the foundation, a plumber for plumbing and an electrician for electrical/lighting. All you need to have in my town is a zoning permit, and then you're all set!

[@alexiscardetailing2678]

@@waylonk2453 that's amazing!! Good for you guys and congrats on the soon to be built house 😇

[@linmal2242]

@@waylonk2453 Wow. Here you need all sorts of licence, approval, permission, tickets, etc. etc. I did it once or twice decades ago but too hard now with all the bureaucratic obstacles.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Mmmm no perp joints and quarter bond . We would have to knock that down if we built block work like that ! 😳🤯🧱👍🏽

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

@@BrotherChad 🤣🤣🧱👍🏽

[@sharongillesp]

With the roof off it looks like an elaborate maze.

[@ianfirth33]

Hx also works in heavy rain, demonstrated on three builds now.

[@mcrazza]

This is fascinating technology and IMO an inevitability. Robotic brick laying and the robotisation of construction jobs will become common. Sad to see the onward march towards the death of the backyard though. These blocks have bugger all room beyond the front yard. There's hardly any room down the sides too! Even in Tassie we're seeing this.

[@linmal2242]

Yeah, shocking.

[@abhijithkoundinyagr8834]

notification squad 😎

[@TomorrowsBuild]

Yes!! We see you! ✊✊✊

[@lotfibouhedjeur]

I want one for my birthday 😍!

[@infradig696]

That robot is actually the leader of the Freemasons now.

[@buddyclem7328]

What have we done? It's only a matter of time before it replaces the Great Architect! Oh, the humanity.

[@azrmp67]

Yuck. The houses are so close together! No yards.

[@linmal2242]

I agree. Terrible!

[@bdawg3942]

Please don’t purchase any shares, until my tax return is in my account, so I can load up first!!👍🤣

[@craigmortell]

don't worry FBR stock is pretty cheap, us long suffering shareholders have been waiting an age for this to start bringing in revenue. The tech is basically in place, still being refined to work faster etc, but they need to build out a decent fleet of machines and get 'wall as a service' more widely adopted. Two prototype machines they have now are not enough. But if they pull it off this will be huge.

[@damianbowman]

These shares will be going through the roof. Im sure you’ve already bought plenty Bdawg👍

[@bdawg3942]

🙄🤣🤣👍. I gotta mix up my user name up a bit!!🤦‍♂️

[@bdawg3942]

Craig, some off us have been invested for years , since 2015 and have always believed. Our payday is coming!!

[@rodgerthedoger1843]

dawg, was hoping you loaded up on the 30th with tax loss selling I averaged down to try and recoup heavy losses.

[@fortmcmurrayoilbaronsfan7]

4:01 Very unexpected but so cool!

[@cow_tools_]

Very cool.

[@ksec6631]

Why cant they automate the outer layer bricks?

[@OperationDarkside]

Fast innovation in a conservative sector would kill off any market opportunities. And I can imagine, that they wanted to firstly get the core functionality right, before moving on to the "pretty" stuff.

[@ksec6631]

@@OperationDarkside can you explain a bit more about killing off market opportunities?

[@OperationDarkside]

@@ksec6631 Removing most or all of the human labor in house construction too quickly will spawn opposition from commercial and private entities. A "wow, wow, wow, waaaaiit a moment" kind of situation. While I believe it's possible, you need to give workers the time and opportunity to switch professions, if one dies off. It was the same with Elon Musk wanting to replace all factory workers in the Model 3 factory with robots. He faced major opposition from external and internal. In hindsight with Covid in mind, it would have been the right call, but short-term human workers are cheaper. They could even face legal action from the government trying to prevent mass-joblessness.

[@ksec6631]

@@OperationDarkside thx for the detail answer.

[@jasond3918]

There are wire ties that are placed between the leaves of brickwork so I am thinking with that the ties would need to be mechanically fixed to the robots wall as the external face brickwork is laid. Face brickwork requires the joints to be either flushed, raked or rolled and I don’t think the robots can do this yet.

[@glennalexon1530]

Is brick-laying a major part of the cost of the home overall? How much cheaper was the featured house, compared to it's neighbors? Are the large, odd bricks much more expensive than common bricks? How many days would a crew of brick-layers taken to build the same thing? Poor reporting, TB.

[@TheBeriney]

The most expensive cost is the land itself, and after that I believe it’d be the labour costs surely? The materials (especially brick) can’t be that much surely?

[@KrishnaSharma-nx9dy]

It not only saves labor costs but also time which is the most expensive thing.

[@photovideooz4084]

in Australia a brick layer can earn around 150K per year, an expensive labour job, and the robot don't charge you this money, they just charge electricity 1 robot = 10 brick layer in speed. These giant brick are special made by German brick maker Wienerberger AG.

[@Marsmate88]

These guys were building the prototype for this in the warehouse next door to where I used to work. I helped them unload a few modules with our forklift because they didn't have one of their own.

[@prathibhayr6594]

Nice video

[@cassandra5390]

But human beings NEED these jobs and most of them who do these jobs actually enjoy doing them. So how is this going to solve a housing crisis??? How when we have lost even more of our jobs to robots. TRAIN AND HIRE MORE PEOPLE TO DO THESE JOBS! We have all of these abandoned homes in so many cities just sitting and ROTTING because nobody is living in them to care for them and we are talking about a housing crisis??? And robots are the answer? I don't think so.

[@haha-eg8fj]

Yes why not train more people to dig holes and plow the farmlands? We are not living in the 19th century. You can even make money by building a KZbin channel. Why waste your time complaining about robots stealing jobs?

[@Fanta....]

Try being a brickie's labourer. these jobs are complete shit and the sooner the robots can do them the better.

[@ekaterinavalinakova2643]

They are rubbish jobs to begin with. It's about time they get automated. Also, the goal should be to figure out economic systems to be compatible with a hyper automated world, not the other way around.

[@linmal2242]

@@ekaterinavalinakova2643 You and Fanta are talking sense. Get a better job.

[@williamr.s.5693]

This is brilliant! One of the benefits of this, too, is that fewer workers will wear their bodies out, since being a bricklayer is quite grueling, especially in the long run. Edit: sorry, you said that too :)

[@dougie1968]

No more cowboy builders, wolf whistling and seeing arse cracks. 😆

[@freetobe3]

As long as the walls aren't as bent as the ones on my parents house... Look like the crew had beer for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

[@Withnail1969]

Are we trying to pretend that a giant robot building walls is 'green'? How sustainable are the concrete blocks it's using?

[@linmal2242]

They are concrete. From a concrete batching plant. You guess !

[@polishfinnish3066]

Let's be honest what's the point of building houses that close to eachother when you have no yard for privacy... Mind as well build apartments with some green spaces...

[@theodoremurdock9984]

I think these are usually built in cities whose zoning laws forbid medium- density housing. They’re technically single-family detached houses, so they’re legal to build.

[@datesxx3162]

Australia is dealing with a house crisis.. well sorta. The More homes you can squeeze into a area. The more people live there. The more money the city gets. As a Australian I’m used to this layout of buildings and every Australian is basically accepted it as norm. I get each country is different but the most of Australians get along with the people next door unless you live in a poor area to where people with illegal addictions end up being your neighbour.

[@polishfinnish3066]

@@theodoremurdock9984 yea you're probably right. It's more ugly than if the zoning allowed medium density tbh. I had a new subdivision that has about 10-15ft distance between houses and it looks ugly. This looks like it's less than 10. The problem I'm noticing is in the US we are building out instead of up which makes creating a good transit system unfeasible due to population density. In simple terms we are making ourselves more reliant on the car and driving farther.

[@polishfinnish3066]

@@datesxx3162 I grew up in a suburb in the US which had alot of green space. Over time there's been residential development particularly the packing in style which strips away from these green spaces. Frankly it's an eyesore and a waste of space. I guess the best way to say it is if you're gonna put them this close making the town look like a city mind as well build it like a proper city in the first place.

[@agelualofa]

Amazing tech in construction. A big leap for all build problems. Love it all and hope it works out at the end

[@pl6935]

that machine pays for itself