Tybot is a robot recently invented that can tie together steel reinforcement bars saving time and reducing risk in construction projects. Thousands of joints must be tied before pouring the concrete, however this step has traditionally been labor intensive, hazardous, and a cause for major delays in the building process.
This robot is the first offering from the firm Advanced Construction Robotics (ACR) launched by construction firm boss Steve Muck and robotics expert Jeremy Searock. The machine only requires transportation and setting up the frame using the existing infrastructure, which can be done in half a day's work. TyBot is then ready to go to work, often at night, needing only one worker supervising it in operation.
Click below and watch TyBot in action.
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Let's unemploy some more people. We're doing it for their own good, work is dangerous!
Plus we won't have to pay health insurance, unemployment insurance, payroll tax, workman's comp, and retirement.
Why pay your workforce when you can own it?
Kinda clumsy.
Why not just pref-fab the rebar in mats, then this can all be done in the shop? Seems like it automates the easy part.
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