Using lidar-equipped robots, Doxel scans construction sites every day to monitor how things are progressing, tracking what gets installed and whether it’s the right thing at the right time in the right place. You’d think that construction sites would be doing this by themselves anyway, but it turns out that they really don’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. — IEEE Spectrum
"You could send in some humans with lidar backpacks, but that would be more expensive," IEEE Spectrum explains. "The company is also using drones in a limited capacity right now, since they require human supervision, but it’s easy to imagine how much more efficient this process could get as robotic autonomy improves."
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Interesting, but two observations:
1- the circles on the floor are usually where a lidar are located, so i’m not convinced that the video accurately represents the output but relays to you what you are really buying (a robot).
2- This is distressing:
This is not a tool to help builders, it's a tool to help developers squeeze contractors (even harder).
Aside from the fact that every construction project includes a multitude of fluid process changes to accommodate weather, materials availability, labor, etc.
On any real construction site that thing would have an "accident" very quickly.
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