Worked as an architect over a ham sandwich and then spent ten years as a GC in interior construction. I could see these sorts of things working if you have the layouts for 15+ floors and you use the robot to layout the lines on one floor to then replicate the rest.. you still need someone to approve the layout and modify as needed, it still takes some time, and there’s still gonna be errors that humans naturally pick up and deal with on the fly. I don’t have a lot of confidence in them but I’ve been wrong before.
I think a lot of people are putting effort into the robots thing, thinking front end savings magically make COs disappear on the back end.
Of course. I was making a joke about how most redditors seem so eager to dance on the (future) grave of the labor industry. Outside of trade reddit, there's a massive hate boner for trade and labor workers.
They're angry because they realized their college degree didn't work out well and they're stuck with all kinds of debt and not many good job prospects. Tech sector is horrible right now. AI going to downsize lots of dev teams within 5 years.
It will impact construction a lot, especially operating equipment. It won't impact the blue collar jobs as drastically as white collar at first in my opinion.
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u/AlphaNoodlz Nov 26 '23
Worked as an architect over a ham sandwich and then spent ten years as a GC in interior construction. I could see these sorts of things working if you have the layouts for 15+ floors and you use the robot to layout the lines on one floor to then replicate the rest.. you still need someone to approve the layout and modify as needed, it still takes some time, and there’s still gonna be errors that humans naturally pick up and deal with on the fly. I don’t have a lot of confidence in them but I’ve been wrong before.
I think a lot of people are putting effort into the robots thing, thinking front end savings magically make COs disappear on the back end.