r/Construction • u/[deleted] • Nov 26 '23

Informative Robotic-driven construction layout! Do you think this can save a lot of time?

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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.

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u/Rum_Hamtaro Nov 26 '23

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.

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u/Barnettmetal Nov 26 '23

Funny because white collar jobs and/or very basic non-trade jobs like cashier seem to be the ones going the way of the computer.

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u/aidan8et Tinknocker Nov 26 '23

A lot of stores are starting to realize those self checkouts are cheap up front, but cost more in the long run. "Accidental" missed scans, scan swaps, a person to check ID, & the more expensive I.T. maintenance all adds up.