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Title: Brick-laying robot can lay framework for a full-sized house in two days
Post by: PhireSideZA on July 01, 2015, 06:27:37

As robots get smarter, cheaper and more versatile, they're taking on a growing number of challenges – and bricklaying can now be added to the list. Engineers in Perth, Australia, have created a fully working house-building machine that can create the brick framework of a property in just two days, working about 20 times faster than a human bricklayer.

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Title: Re: Brick-laying robot can lay framework for a full-sized house in two days
Post by: The Gonz on July 01, 2015, 07:04:19

Anything you do with your hands (such as flying a plane, FatBoy  :rofl:) is soon to be yesterday's ways. This is why the government is finally 'desperately' pushing science and technology innovation in schools. :cool:

Title: Re: Brick-laying robot can lay framework for a full-sized house in two days
Post by: Shambles on July 01, 2015, 07:35:13

It'll never get the hang of wolf-whistling though :whistler:

Title: Re: Brick-laying robot can lay framework for a full-sized house in two days
Post by: The Gonz on July 01, 2015, 07:49:49

Quote from: Shambles on July 01, 2015, 07:35:13

It'll never get the hang of wolf-whistling though :whistler:

Funny you should say that. The Melbourne trams have electronic bells ringing through their loudspeakers sounding just like the old mechanical ones. :crazy2:

Title: Re: Brick-laying robot can lay framework for a full-sized house in two days
Post by: Dazzler on July 01, 2015, 07:53:53

Quote from: Shambles on July 01, 2015, 07:35:13

It'll never get the hang of wolf-whistling though :whistler:

Love it! :rofl:

Good find Phil!

Our Brickie was 67 y/o a brilliant layer but slow as a wet week (paid by the hour!) He retired 2 days after he finished doing our place and then found out he had cancer (can't spell lewkemia) and died within 2 years... Rest his soul, but a machine like that would have been great!  :goodjob:

Title: Re: Brick-laying robot can lay framework for a full-sized house in two days
Post by: FatBoy on July 01, 2015, 12:28:37

Quote from: The Gonz on July 01, 2015, 07:04:19

Anything you do with your hands (such as flying a plane, FatBoy  :rofl:) is soon to be yesterday's ways. This is why the government is finally 'desperately' pushing science and technology innovation in schools. :cool:

As soon as people are happy to be flown by robots, Gonz, then I'll be happy to hang up my wings.  However, they will still need somebody to make the decisions.  As it is now, most of my time is spent monitoring instruments.

Title: Re: Brick-laying robot can lay framework for a full-sized house in two days
Post by: PhireSideZA on July 01, 2015, 13:19:26

Some jobs will just never be replaced by robots (mine for one).

No robot will be sane after working in customer care and dealing with some of the users I have to on a daily basis :mrgreen:

Their transistors would commit suicide after a few weeks :crazy1:

Title: Re: Brick-laying robot can lay framework for a full-sized house in two days
Post by: Shambles on July 01, 2015, 13:20:03

Quote from: FatBoy

... most of my time is spent monitoring instruments.

Do you have to alert ground control if they move..?

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Title: Re: Brick-laying robot can lay framework for a full-sized house in two days
Post by: The Gonz on July 01, 2015, 13:31:58

 :rofl:

Title: Re: Brick-laying robot can lay framework for a full-sized house in two days
Post by: The Gonz on July 01, 2015, 13:38:58

Quote from: FatBoy on July 01, 2015, 12:28:37

As soon as people are happy to be flown by robots, Gonz, then I'll be happy to hang up my wings.  However, they will still need somebody to make the decisions.  As it is now, most of my time is spent monitoring instruments.

All in jest, Jamie, you know we wuvs ya. Lots of manual jobs will disappear to outsourcing or mechanisation long before pilots, and as far as pilots go, rotary are indeed the elite in my book. :goodjob:

Title: Re: Brick-laying robot can lay framework for a full-sized house in two days
Post by: Dazzler on July 01, 2015, 22:05:15

Quote from: wabbit16 on July 01, 2015, 13:19:26

Some jobs will just never be replaced by robots (mine for one).

No robot will be sane after working in customer care and dealing with some of the users I have to on a daily basis :mrgreen:

Their transistors would commit suicide after a few weeks :crazy1:

You would get stuff like this in your job I suspect Phil!

"A woman customer called the Canon Australia Help Desk because she had a problem with her printer.


Tech Support: Are you running it under windows?

Customer: No, my desk is next to the door, but that is a good point. The man sitting next to me is by a window, and his printer is working fine!"

Title: Re: Brick-laying robot can lay framework for a full-sized house in two days
Post by: PhireSideZA on July 01, 2015, 22:14:46

I'd love to say no, but sadly, I have had similiar :lol: :lol: :lol:

My favourite is when something is clearly broken by force or abuse, yet the users claim that they do not know what happened to it...

"Excuse me, your keyboard on your laptop has liquid damage. Underneath the keys is a very sticky brown substance that clearly smells like coffee. Did you spill coffee over your laptop perhaps?"

"No never, I never eat or drink anywhere NEAR my laptop or my desk", she would say, gulping the last of her coffee and wiping away the biscuit crumbs onto the carpet where she thinks I cannot see it :rolleyes:

Luckily we have a 'user damage' option on our prod systems for just these types of incidents :whistler:

Title: Re: Brick-laying robot can lay framework for a full-sized house in two days
Post by: Dazzler on July 01, 2015, 22:43:56

At my previous job we had that keyboard problem all the time!  :evil:

Title: Re: Brick-laying robot can lay framework for a full-sized house in two days
Post by: Wingerdave on July 19, 2015, 13:07:56

I don't know for a fact what happens at work after hours, but i regularly empty keyboards and see short, curly hairs fall out (together with breadcrumbs and paperclips) ......... :whistler:

Title: Re: Brick-laying robot can lay framework for a full-sized house in two days
Post by: The Gonz on July 19, 2015, 15:28:46

 :sicky:

Title: Re: Brick-laying robot can lay framework for a full-sized house in two days
Post by: Phil №❶ on July 20, 2015, 08:03:22

Men with beards, eating sandwiches whilst playing with paperclips.  :D

Title: Re: Brick-laying robot can lay framework for a full-sized house in two days
Post by: Wingerdave on July 21, 2015, 21:42:58

Quote from: Phil №❶ on July 20, 2015, 08:03:22

Men with beards, eating sandwiches whilst playing with paperclips.  :D

Never thought of that. Probably because none of my (male) collegues have beards

Title: Re: Brick-laying robot can lay framework for a full-sized house in two days
Post by: Shambles on July 21, 2015, 21:45:24

Quote from: Wingerdave

none of my (male) collegues have beards

That scares me :scared:

Title: Re: Brick-laying robot can lay framework for a full-sized house in two days
Post by: Wingerdave on July 21, 2015, 23:09:58

 :whsaid:  :eek:

Title: Re: Brick-laying robot can lay framework for a full-sized house in two days
Post by: The Gonz on July 22, 2015, 07:47:57

I served in a country where beardless men were a real problem habit for the local establishment. :confused:

Title: Re: Brick-laying robot can lay framework for a full-sized house in two days
Post by: Lakes on July 22, 2015, 11:11:13

Quote from: wabbit16 on July 01, 2015, 13:19:26

Some jobs will just never be replaced by robots (mine for one).

No robot will be sane after working in customer care and dealing with some of the users I have to on a daily basis :mrgreen:

Their transistors would commit suicide after a few weeks :crazy1:

I would say your right there,as people who complain the most would soon get tired of complaining to robots!!

Title: Re: Brick-laying robot can lay framework for a full-sized house in two days
Post by: beerman on July 25, 2015, 11:28:08

Quote from: FatBoy on July 01, 2015, 12:28:37

Quote from: The Gonz on July 01, 2015, 07:04:19

Anything you do with your hands (such as flying a plane, FatBoy  :rofl:) is soon to be yesterday's ways. This is why the government is finally 'desperately' pushing science and technology innovation in schools. :cool:

As soon as people are happy to be flown by robots, Gonz, then I'll be happy to hang up my wings.  However, they will still need somebody to make the decisions.  As it is now, most of my time is spent monitoring instruments.

The last flight I took into Melbourne the computer landed the plane. I would assume they used the auto pilot all the way down.....

Title: Re: Brick-laying robot can lay framework for a full-sized house in two days
Post by: FatBoy on July 25, 2015, 11:38:41

Quote from: beerman on July 25, 2015, 11:28:08

Quote from: FatBoy on July 01, 2015, 12:28:37

Quote from: The Gonz on July 01, 2015, 07:04:19

Anything you do with your hands (such as flying a plane, FatBoy  :rofl:) is soon to be yesterday's ways. This is why the government is finally 'desperately' pushing science and technology innovation in schools. :cool:

As soon as people are happy to be flown by robots, Gonz, then I'll be happy to hang up my wings.  However, they will still need somebody to make the decisions.  As it is now, most of my time is spent monitoring instruments.

The last flight I took into Melbourne the computer landed the plane. I would assume they used the auto pilot all the way down.....

Correct, although they still need somebody to tell the autopilot what to do.  Sometimes it is easier to do it yourself than get the autopilot to do something.

It does remind me of the great maintenance "write up" after a test flight.
Pilot - "Aircraft flies well, however Auto-land caused a heavy landing."
Maintenance - "Auto-land not fitted to this aircraft."

Title: Re: Brick-laying robot can lay framework for a full-sized house in two days
Post by: Phil №❶ on July 25, 2015, 12:20:29

 :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :goodjob2:

Title: Re: Brick-laying robot can lay framework for a full-sized house in two days
Post by: The Gonz on July 26, 2015, 00:28:32

This was posted back in 2006 on FlightAware. Apparently, UPS pilots fill out a form known as a “gripe sheet” to inform mechanics about problems with their aircraft. The mechanics then correct the problems, document their repairs on the form and the pilots review the gripe sheets before the next flight.

Hence, here are some actual maintenance complaints submitted by pilots (marked with a P) and the solutions recorded (marked with an S) by maintenance engineers (and who says that aviation mechanics do not have a sense of humour!):

P: Left inside main tire almost needs replacement.
S: Almost replaced left inside main tire.

P: Test flight OK, except auto-land very rough.
S: Probably because auto-land is not installed on this aircraft.

P: Something loose in cockpit
S: Something tightened in cockpit

P: Dead bugs on windshield.
S: Live bugs on back-order.

P: Autopilot in altitude-hold mode has a 200 ft. per min. descent.
S: Cannot reproduce problem on ground.

P: Evidence of leak on right main landing gear.
S: Evidence removed.

P: DME volume unbelievably loud.
S: DME volume set to more believable level.

P: Friction locks cause throttle levers to stick.
S: That’s what friction locks are for.

P: IFF inoperative in OFF mode.
S: IFF IS inoperative in OFF mode.

P: Suspected crack in windshield.
S: Suspect you’re right.

P: Number 3 engine missing.
S: Engine found on right wing after brief search.

PS: Aircraft acting funny
S: Aircraft warned to straighten up, fly right and be serious.

P: Target radar hums.
S: Reprogrammed target radar with lyrics.

P: Mouse in cockpit.
S: Cat installed.

And the best one for last

P: Noise coming from under instrument panel. Sounds like midget pounding on something with a hammer.
S: Took hammer away from midget.

 :victory:

Title: Re: Brick-laying robot can lay framework for a full-sized house in two days
Post by: Dazzler on July 26, 2015, 02:36:43

Seen something like that before, but still enjoyed it. :cheers: