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Hadrian The Robotic Bricklayer Can Build a House in Just Two Days

The world’s first robotic bricklayer can lay 1,000 bricks an hour and is capable of building a house in just two days.

Named after the famous defensive wall built by emperor Hadrian, the robot uses a 28m articulated robotic arm to lay bricks using a 3D plan.

Hadrian was invented by Australian aeronautical engineer Mark Pivac who has spent a whopping ten years and £3.5 million on the project.

Pivac told PerthNow: “People have been laying bricks for about 6,000 years and ever since the industrial revolution, they have tried to automate the bricklaying process.

“We’re at a technological nexus where a few different technologies have got to the level where it’s now possible to do it, and that’s what we’ve done.”

The robot works by first creating a 3D image of the house, then calculating the location of each brick and developing a sequence to lay each one from a single location.

Unlike human bricklayers, Hadrian is capable of working around the clock.

Pivac first came up with the idea of a robotic bricklayer while working on computer-controlled machinery and seeing the shortage of bricklayers in Perth.

He hopes to sell the robot first in Western Australia then roll it out to the rest of the country, and eventually, to the rest of the world.

The inventor told PerthNow: “We have absolutely nothing against bricklayers”

“The problem is the average age of bricklayers is going up and it’s difficult to attract new young people to the trade.”

(Image credit: PerthNow)