Robotic excavator builds a giant stone wall with no human assistance

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• aeronmelon@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Now that the autonomous robot has successfully redivided Berlin, the German government is willing to hear its demands.”

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  • agressivelyPassive@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    VEB Robotron will rise again and unleash the mighty Ulbricht 2000 Wallmaster.

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  • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was thinking of the wall between USA and Mexico… :)

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• onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Now this is a useful application of machine learning: not killer bots.

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  • key@lemmy.keychat.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Until it learns such walls can also be made of human skulls. Dum dum duuuuum

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  • LaSaucisseMasquee@jlai.lu ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But how will we steal resources from brown-people countries and funnel public money to corporations ?

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    • agressivelyPassive@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Anti migration wall, so the poor people stay poor in their own countries and can be exploited as God intended.

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  • pdxfed@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My first thought actually was how will this incredible technology respond when it’s supposed to start construction and there are environmental protestors at a site or whatever? Just one less human between big power and regular people.

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    • Xanvial@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bonus materials?

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• Doorbook@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  History Channel: is this how aliens build the pyermids.

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wonderful. This is actually some technology that some desert countries in the middle east could use. Those loosely-stacked walls are perfect to take water out of the air in the chill of the morning. Walls of this kind have been used for ages in that region for this purpose. Having an autonomous building system would allow to spread this use.

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  • Starglasses@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t understand what that means. How does a wall take water out of the air and why is that wanted?

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    • kurcatovium@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I presume stones get cold during night, when temperature rise they remain colder than air so water in the air condensate on them. Why is this wanted? Well, to get drinkable water in dry areas?

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    • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Condensation. Stone wall is cold in the morning, humid morning air passes through it, water condenses on the large, cold surface, and drips down.

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  • neonred@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Problem is that does not generate water. It just takes the water away which is then missing somewhere else and fucks up the other areas which would otherwise be in healthy equilibrium.

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• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  With no humans WANTING a wall either! The local council was pissed!

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  • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Some madman and probably not? 🤷

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• Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How come half that wall looks photo-shopped?

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  • Fetus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Literally directly under the image: The HEAP excavator at the construction site – an overlay on the boulders at left illustrates how each one was scanned prior to placement

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    • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      To be fair, you don’t see this caption if you have your client set to automatically use reader mode. Also the photo thumbnail shows mortar, which is misleading. Still an impressive use of robotics and good programming.

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• HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  KillDozer V2 is gonna be so badass

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• cheese_greater@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Its going to make an amazing corporate stonewaller, some day, probably

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• smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Makka Pakka

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• hltdev@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  perfect, now it can learn to stone people in like the Romans did

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