Building a wall by precisely stacking randomly shaped boulders could almost be the definition of hard work – both physically and mentally. It's the sort of thing we might want robots to do one day, so it should come as no surprise that one has in fact just done it.

Robotic excavator builds a giant stone wall with no human assistance::undefined

  • aeronmelon@lemm.eeEnglish
    42·
    1 year ago

    “Now that the autonomous robot has successfully redivided Berlin, the German government is willing to hear its demands.”

    • keyAEnglish
      19·
      1 year ago

      Until it learns such walls can also be made of human skulls. Dum dum duuuuum

    • LaSaucisseMasquee@jlai.luEnglish
      63·
      1 year ago

      But how will we steal resources from brown-people countries and channel public money to corporations ?

    • pdxfed@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      1 year ago

      My first thought actually was how will this incredible technology respond when it’s supposed to start construction and there are environmental protestors at a site or whatever? Just one less human between big power and regular people.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    Wonderful. This is actually some technology that some desert countries in the middle east could use. Those loosely-stacked walls are perfect to take water out of the air in the chill of the morning. Walls of this kind have been used for ages in that region for this purpose. Having an autonomous building system would allow to spread this use.

      • kurcatovium@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        I presume stones get cold during night, when temperature rise they remain colder than air so water in the air condensate on them. Why is this wanted? Well, to get drinkable water in dry areas?

      • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Condensation. Stone wall is cold in the morning, humid morning air passes through it, water condenses on the large, cold surface, and drips down.

    • neonred@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      1 year ago

      Problem is that does not generate water. It just takes the water away which is then missing somewhere else and fucks up the other areas which would otherwise be in healthy equilibrium.

    • Fetus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      For those using reader mode, the caption under the image says:

      The HEAP excavator at the construction site – an overlay on the boulders at left illustrates how each one was scanned prior to placement.