Set it loose and let it build a wall wherever it wants
Autonomous excavator constructs dry stone wall
Submitted 6 months ago by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to technology@lemmy.world
https://electrek.co/2024/05/04/watch-this-autonomous-excavator-build-a-retaining-wall-video/
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Brkdncr@lemmy.world 6 months ago
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 6 months ago
`I am Builder.
Insert boulder.`
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 6 months ago
This video gives a good look at what’s involved in building a stone retaining wall like this:
Essential Craftsman: How to stack a boulder wall
There’s a fair amount of practical expertise, like picking specific sizes/shapes for specific areas and arranging the rocks so they won’t move later (he talks about the long-term safety implications around 12:30). It’s a very involved moment-to-moment decision making process.
Just because the robot can fit the rocks together in a way that stands up now doesn’t mean it’s done so in a way that will be safe and stable five years from now, especially with the pressure of tons of dirt behind it, probably with a building on top of that.
mipadaitu@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Funny you picked that video, because even with all that experience, they still messed it up.
It was mostly a miscommunication with the engineer, but still, the guy stacking the boulders never realized they wouldn’t be stable the original way it was done, with the support wall built the way it is.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 6 months ago
No kidding, I hadn’t seen that one. If I understand correctly, the rocks were stable but the angle was putting too much pressure on the concrete wall which made it crack.
palordrolap@kbin.social 6 months ago
Somewhere around here I have a 1960s or '70s Star Trek annual with a story where machines like this end up converting an entire planet into one enormous city, and the people that live there can't stop it.
The story is basically a warning about turning everything over to AI, not that they call it that specifically.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Same idea as grey goo
palordrolap@kbin.social 6 months ago
Oddly enough, Spock solves the problem (because of course he does, and it's a comic that has to be done in 30 panels or so) by discovering that the city construction materials can be chemically dissolved into goo. Thankfully not the sort that overtakes a planet.
... at least assuming there wasn't a sequel.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Paperclip maximizer: Stone wall edition.
GluWu@lemm.ee 6 months ago
AI won’t take MY job, I’m safe. And I’m gonna go cry.
cm0002@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Everyone: “Construction and Creative jobs will probably be the last to be automated!”
Computer Scientists: And I took that personally
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Well-defined, repetitive tasks are always the first to go.
Alpha71@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I wonder when they will automate billionaires?
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 6 months ago
I remember this from one or two months ago.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Yeah, I heard about it on a podcast a few weeks ago, but didn’t see a video until recently.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s actually pretty cool. I’d like to see them use it to make a building.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This one is not made for buildings. It’s superpower is placing the boulders in a smart way, building a wall without using concrete.
No smooth surface, no paint job :)
tal@lemmy.today 6 months ago
Well…I bet that there’s some sort of buildings that use dry stone.
I think that there are old forts in Britain done like that. I was into looking at pictures of fortifications at one point.
googles
Brochs in Scotland:
In archaeology, a broch /brɒx/ is an Iron Age drystone hollow-walled structure found in Scotland. Brochs belong to the classification “complex Atlantic roundhouse” devised by Scottish archaeologists in the 1980s.
Brochs are roundhouse buildings found throughout Atlantic Scotland. The word broch is derived from the Lowland Scots ‘brough’, meaning fort. In the mid-19th century, Scottish antiquaries called brochs ‘burgs’, after Old Norse borg, with the same meaning. Brochs are often referred to as duns in the west, and they are the most spectacular of a complex class of buildings found in northern Scotland. There are approximately 571 candidate broch sites throughout the country, according to the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 6 months ago
No, I get it, I just think it would be cool to build a structure that way. You’d have to fill in the gaps, but people made lots of buildings like that once upon a time.
noodlejetski@lemm.ee 6 months ago
so how long until it’s revealed that it’s actually remotely controlled by underpaid contractors in India?
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 6 months ago
Twitch plays wall building.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
That’s the secret: in India, there’s no such thing as being underpaid