Zurich-based architects and roboticists have created the In-situ Fabricator, an autonomous construction robot capable of laying bricks into pre-programmed structures. Designers at the Swiss National ...

(NORCROSS-GA, 15 May 2014) – Leica Geosystems has launched two new total stations, the iCON builder 60 and the iCON robot 60, both built especially with construction workers in mind and providing an ...

A robot bricklayer dubbed 'Bot the Builder' can knock up a house on his own in just a day. The cutting-edge machine can lay 200 square metres of masonry in 24 hours - 10 times the amount of human ...

Forget the flashy humanoids with their gymnastics skills: at the World Robot Summit in Tokyo, the focus was on down-to-earth robots that can deliver post, do the shopping and build a house.

From wire to finished product in less than 13 minutes: a new robot-builder is faster than most takeaways. It works by bending wire that already has motors attached into different shapes, using a ...