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Saw a robot laying brick at a home show in Fort Wayne and the mason next to me just shook his head
I walked through the home show in Fort Wayne last Saturday and a company had a robotic arm stacking brick on a demo wall. The thing laid about 30 bricks in a few minutes and the guy running it kept saying it can hit 3,000 a day. But right next to it was an old mason doing a corner by hand, and he told me the robot can't do the tricky stuff like corners or quoins yet. I watched it for maybe 20 minutes and it was slow and steady, but any brick with a chip got set aside for a human to fix later. Made me wonder how this plays out on a real job with bad weather and uneven slabs. Has anyone here actually run one of these on a job site, and did it hold up past the demo wall?
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the_xena18d ago
Tbh that mason shaking his head is just watching his job disappear and trying to cope. Corner work and quoins are a skill problem, not a robot problem. Give it two years and the software will handle a corner better than the guy doing it by hand, no smoke breaks, no bad knees. Chipped brick getting set aside sounds like a feature, not a bug, since you need a human eye for finish work anyway. Weather and uneven slabs slow down human crews too, and at least a robot shows up every day at 6am without calling in sick.
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