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 ...

Diane Brookshaw of Grosvenor Crescent and Lincoln Green Estate Tenants Residents' Association chair (centre front) joined other tenants and council and housing officials to lay the first bricks The ...

Masonry robot Hadrian can now lay 20 percent more bricks per hour. However, it works more slowly on complex structures. The Australian construction robot Hadrian from robotics company FBR Limited can ...

The first bricks in the construction of 99 new energy-efficient council bungalows have been laid by residents and officials. They are replacing more than 90 post-war prefabricated homes on the Lincoln ...