A new bricklayer has joined the crew building a new high school in Foxhall.
That new worker is a robot: Sam, short for SAM100, which is short for “semi-automated mason.”
The new construction tool is being used by Clark Construction Group to help build The Lab School’s new campus.
Sam is the first commercially available, on-site, bricklaying robot in the world, the Washington Business Journal reports.
The patent-pending robot weighs about 300 pounds, runs on a propane generator and can be carried around the construction site in a forklift. It can sense whether a brick is usable, and where it needs to go. Good job, Sam.
Watch SAM100 at work
Before you go...
Please consider supporting Technical.ly to keep our independent journalism strong. Unlike most business-focused media outlets, we don’t have a paywall. Instead, we count on your personal and organizational support.
Join our growing Slack community
Join 5,000 tech professionals and entrepreneurs in our community Slack today!
The person charged in the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting had a ton of tech connections
Northern Virginia defense contractor acquires aerospace startup in $4B deal
From rejection to innovation: How I built a tool to beat AI hiring algorithms at their own game
