Seems like it's another mini-mills waiting to happen, with perhaps ML as the required technological innovation.
Current low hanging fruit is long, straight walls. So a few customers will bite, using the human masons (who are paid more) as the high quality, judgement based service. The easy sections will be done by the machine.
Over time the machine maker uses their foothold to encroach on the more juicy work. As they collect data some ML will creep in and solve some of the harder brick laying issues. Maybe it will figure out about the mortar too.
Eventually the machine will be doing the whole job, and you can use an app to build yourself a heart-shaped wall just for fun.
Or perhaps there's just no economic incentive, and more inexperienced masons will do the easy bits for the foreseeable.
True. Hard to get enough people to work on the non-Newtonian problem when the robot is expensive. Easier to have several of them, and fix any mechanical problem on the robot, when the robot is simple and inexpensive
Current low hanging fruit is long, straight walls. So a few customers will bite, using the human masons (who are paid more) as the high quality, judgement based service. The easy sections will be done by the machine.
Over time the machine maker uses their foothold to encroach on the more juicy work. As they collect data some ML will creep in and solve some of the harder brick laying issues. Maybe it will figure out about the mortar too.
Eventually the machine will be doing the whole job, and you can use an app to build yourself a heart-shaped wall just for fun.
Or perhaps there's just no economic incentive, and more inexperienced masons will do the easy bits for the foreseeable.