2024-11-23T06:45:09-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150051489/this-ai-powered-lidar-equipped-robot-could-soon-help-detect-construction-errors-early Alexander Walter 2018-02-23T15:39:00-05:00 >2018-02-26T16:46:49-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/v4/v4l551qappvhrci4.jpeg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Using lidar-equipped robots, Doxel scans construction sites every day to monitor how things are progressing, tracking what gets installed and whether it&rsquo;s the right thing at the right time in the right place. You&rsquo;d think that construction sites would be doing this by themselves anyway, but it turns out that they really don&rsquo;t, and in a recent pilot study on a medical office building, Doxel says it managed to increase labor productivity on the project by a staggering 38 percent.</p></em><br /><br /><p>"You could send in some humans with lidar backpacks, but that would be more&nbsp;expensive,"<em> IEEE Spectrum</em> explains. "The company is also using drones in a limited capacity right now, since they require human supervision, but it&rsquo;s easy to imagine how much more efficient this process could get as robotic autonomy improves."</p>