Automated masonry tools can dramatically increase the speed of construction—one prototype robot can lay 1,000 bricks per hour, for instance, while reducing the need for human workers to haul ...

The construction of walls without mortar also typically requires workers on foot to use shovels or their hands to add supporting stones, gravel and dirt. By comparison, the robot’s digital ...

the construction robot market will more than double in size to $420m by 2025, up from $200m in 2017, say consultants QY Research. In the US, construction workers are also getting older.

but worker shortages have led to a review of the technology.” Development is progressing on robots for use in the distribution and construction sectors as well. Progress in artificial ...

performing the routine physical work while enhancements to the building services are left to skilled workers. 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing Robots for the construction of large-scale ...

HDB did not say how efficient these robots are compared with human workers, but Toh Chee Boon, deputy managing director of Hi-Tek Construction, said two painting robots used by his company at a ...