Few categories are as ripe for automation-fueled disruption as construction. The industry is valued at around $2 trillion a year, in the U.S. alone. Much of that work is strenuous, repetitive and ...

Back in 2015 we looked at an interesting approach to automated construction in the form of a brick-laying robot, capable of putting together full-sized homes in just two days. The engineers behind the ...

The following is an excerpt from Jonathan Waldman’s new book, “SAM: One Robot, a Dozen Engineers, and the Race to Revolutionize the Way We Build” about one man’s attempt to do the nearly impossible.

A brick-laying robot named Hadrian X has broken its own record for speed, which is now up to 200 concrete blocks per hour—with the next landmark set at 240. (Its sibling robot Hadrian 112 aims to ...

Massachusetts robotics entrepreneurs focus on specialized machines, while West Coast companies pour billions into humanoid ...

The extraordinary Hadrian X bricklaying robot rocks up to a building site looking like a regular truck, then extends a 32-m (105-ft) boom arm and starts precisely laying up to 300 large masonry blocks ...