The Semi-Automated Mason (SAM) is a new construction robot that helps with the repetitive tasks of brick laying except at a far greater pace. Erich Oh reports on the new robot capable of laying 800-1200 bricks in a day.
SAM is also capable of adapting to real job site conditions such as differentiating between theoretical drawings and the conditions of the actual building site as well as minor detailing:
“In construction, your design will say that a window is located exactly 30 feet from the corner of a building, and in reality when you get to the building, nothing is ever where it says it’s supposed to be,” said Scott Peters, cofounder of the company that designed SAM –Construction Robotics, in an interview with MIT Technology Review. “Masons know how to adapt to that, so we had to design a robot that knows how to do that, too.”
