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Robots building homes! 🛖 Automated modular house construction getting a helping hand from robots. Their approach aims to shift construction from traditional sites to factory settings, where robots assist workers in building houses using materials like wood or steel. This method promises to reduce construction time and costs, optimize... logistics, and maintain high-quality standards while being more resource-efficient and weather-independent. ⏱️ Modular construction allows customization to meet customer preferences and varying building regulations, dispelling the notion that factory-built homes are impersonal or identical. @KUKAGlobal robots are helping out another industry! 🦺 P.S. The first gripper / EOAT is impressive! ❤️‍🔥 ~~~ ♻️ RT to help 1 robot find a new workplace.show more

Lukas Ziegler

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Davo Corbulovor 1 Jahr

is there a link to a longer video showing more into the process?

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Victor Robertvor 1 Jahr

We must stop building with wood and other degradable materials and move to longer lasting materials sourced from our waste stream Glass Metal Plastic

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Aleksandr Vasilenkovor 1 Jahr

Modular homes plus automated modular component manufacturing is the way. Hardest part would be on-site autonomous assembly of modules into a complete house. One step at a time.

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Crossroad Assistant: Prioritize Factors, Act Fastvor 1 Jahr

Amazing

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n1ck Ⓜ️🕸️vor 1 Jahr

Nice, the only disadvantage is that prices in many countries are kept artificially high so that the housing market does not collapse

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Appy Pievor 1 Jahr

Robots in construction are a game-changer! Faster, cost-effective, and customizable homes are on the way.

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Setpoint Systemsvor 1 Jahr

Another job taken by robots..

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Ross Griffinvor 1 Jahr

By leveraging robotics, we can achieve high-quality, resource-efficient homes at a fraction of the time and cost. I can't wait to see what else we can achieve with tech like this! @lukas_m_ziegler

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Lukas Ziegler

74,434 Aufrufe • vor 22 Tagen

Robotics is entering the mainstream! 👀 Let's accept this fact. Consumptionism – stonks. Possibilities (HW + SW) – stonks. Demographics - not stonks. Modern robots are often designed to interact with our legacy world, whether it's a household, a factory, or a shipyard. That means they often need to work with existing machines, tools, and spaces. In short: retrofitting. Improving old machines with new technologies without major interference in their operation. Modern way of integrating things. You don't have to change the entire environment to deploy a robot. The robot will adapt, just as human would when freshly hired. The promise is to have an army of robots to help with the world designed for us. I also believe that general purpose robots, are not a direct competition for single purpose machines (like a highly efficient specialized packaging machine, for example). It's like adding a robot to this carriage. Specialized machine could be a car ;) ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →

Robotics is entering the mainstream! 👀 Let's accept this fact. Consumptionism – stonks. Possibilities (HW + SW) – stonks. Demographics - not stonks. Modern robots are often designed to interact with our legacy world, whether it's a household, a factory, or a shipyard. That means they often need to work with existing machines, tools, and spaces. In short: retrofitting. Improving old machines with new technologies without major interference in their operation. Modern way of integrating things. You don't have to change the entire environment to deploy a robot. The robot will adapt, just as human would when freshly hired. The promise is to have an army of robots to help with the world designed for us. I also believe that general purpose robots, are not a direct competition for single purpose machines (like a highly efficient specialized packaging machine, for example). It's like adding a robot to this carriage. Specialized machine could be a car ;) ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →

Lukas Ziegler

14,396 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten

🚨 ISRAEL’S CONSTRUCTION DILEMMA AFTER OCTOBER 7 - TRUST PALESTINIAN LABOR? Since October 7, Israel’s construction sector has been shaken. The workforce that once powered building across the country largely disappeared overnight. Attempts to replace it with foreign labor from countries like China and Bangladesh have fallen short. So the reality on the ground is shifting. Some construction sites now look like fortified zones: • High walls • Barbed wire • Guard posts Not prisons. Worksites. Workers are employed legally, earning Israeli salaries, yet the sites are being sealed off due to security concerns. And now the debate inside Israel is intensifying: Is this the new reality we have to live with? Or has Israel become too dependent on Arab labor to truly separate? Will workers continue walking into sites that look like prisons and accept it as normal? And at what point does the broader realization set in that Jews are not going anywhere and that these economies are deeply intertwined? Thoughts?

🚨 ISRAEL’S CONSTRUCTION DILEMMA AFTER OCTOBER 7 - TRUST PALESTINIAN LABOR? Since October 7, Israel’s construction sector has been shaken. The workforce that once powered building across the country largely disappeared overnight. Attempts to replace it with foreign labor from countries like China and Bangladesh have fallen short. So the reality on the ground is shifting. Some construction sites now look like fortified zones: • High walls • Barbed wire • Guard posts Not prisons. Worksites. Workers are employed legally, earning Israeli salaries, yet the sites are being sealed off due to security concerns. And now the debate inside Israel is intensifying: Is this the new reality we have to live with? Or has Israel become too dependent on Arab labor to truly separate? Will workers continue walking into sites that look like prisons and accept it as normal? And at what point does the broader realization set in that Jews are not going anywhere and that these economies are deeply intertwined? Thoughts?

Mossad Commentary

24,724 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

A six-story residential building in Beijing was rebuilt in just 46 days using 156 prefabricated modules—like stacking LEGO bricks at city scale, with roughly one floor rising each week. China State Construction replaced an aging 1978 walk-up with a modern, energy-efficient home for 54 families—in record time. Using modular construction—closer to assembling cars in a factory than traditional on-site building—the project cut construction waste by 75% and carbon emissions by 30%. The new building includes elevators powered by rooftop solar panels, improved soundproofing, and safer layouts for families of all ages. Beyond speed and sustainability, the approach also made life easier for residents. Instead of waiting years in temporary housing, families moved back in within just five months. Less disruption, less dust, less noise—a brand-new start for the community. Zoom out, and it echoes a broader pattern. Across China, bridges stretch across rough seas, high-speed rail tunnels carve through mountains, and massive projects like the Three Gorges Dam tame mighty rivers. Again and again, engineers face steep cliffs, deep valleys, and choppy waters—and find ways through. Backed by the strength of 1.4 billion people, projects that once looked out of reach are now routine. When communities need safer homes, faster trains, or stronger bridges, the response is simple: build it—and build it well.

Sinical

4,716,824 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

A robot with wheels and legs! 🦿 Wheeled mobile robots are popular in many fields because they are stable, efficient, and simple to build. However, they often occupy more space than humans and struggle to navigate crowded hallways, ramps, or elevators. 🛗 To address this, a robot developed at the Korea University of Technology and Education combines legs for extra support and mecanum wheels for smooth, all-directional movement. It has a slim, human-like design with four wheel-leg mechanisms, each using a special 2-DOF leg and a mecanum wheel. A unique mechanism keeps the wheels steady while the legs move, helping the robot stay agile and absorb shocks. The design also reduces strain on the motors, making it more efficient. Tests showed that the robot could move quickly, climb steps, and navigate elevators with people. Research paper in the comments! 🗞️ ~~~ ♻️ R to help 1 robot find a new workplace.

A robot with wheels and legs! 🦿 Wheeled mobile robots are popular in many fields because they are stable, efficient, and simple to build. However, they often occupy more space than humans and struggle to navigate crowded hallways, ramps, or elevators. 🛗 To address this, a robot developed at the Korea University of Technology and Education combines legs for extra support and mecanum wheels for smooth, all-directional movement. It has a slim, human-like design with four wheel-leg mechanisms, each using a special 2-DOF leg and a mecanum wheel. A unique mechanism keeps the wheels steady while the legs move, helping the robot stay agile and absorb shocks. The design also reduces strain on the motors, making it more efficient. Tests showed that the robot could move quickly, climb steps, and navigate elevators with people. Research paper in the comments! 🗞️ ~~~ ♻️ R to help 1 robot find a new workplace.

Lukas Ziegler

35,663 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

Let's do a robots watch party! 😉 This is a whole video where we go through videos of real-world use cases for robotics – industry per industry – 20 minutes – only the coolest robot stuff out there. 🤖🔥 And I have the perfect person to join me: Lukas Ziegler, 300k+ followers across platforms, million views, one of the leading influencer voices bringing robotics mainstream. We start with five markets that are mature: 📦 Logistics, ⚡ Energy, 🌾 Farming, 🏗️ Construction, 🔒 Security. Robotics, real world, actually happening. Not pitch decks. We explain the context and what opportunities we see. 👀 Then we get into the weird stuff. Robot skin made from human cells. Brain-controlled robots. Robots in Brains. Fight clubs. A happy robot whose only job is to stop grain bins from exploding. If you ever wondered what the robotics landscape actually looks like right now: This is it. 00:00 Intro 00:37 Logistics 📦 03:04 Energy ⚡ 05:22 Farming 🌾 07:47 Construction 🏗️ 09:46 Security 🔒 11:20 Humanoids 🧍‍♂️ 13:48 😵 Freak section

Let's do a robots watch party! 😉 This is a whole video where we go through videos of real-world use cases for robotics – industry per industry – 20 minutes – only the coolest robot stuff out there. 🤖🔥 And I have the perfect person to join me: Lukas Ziegler, 300k+ followers across platforms, million views, one of the leading influencer voices bringing robotics mainstream. We start with five markets that are mature: 📦 Logistics, ⚡ Energy, 🌾 Farming, 🏗️ Construction, 🔒 Security. Robotics, real world, actually happening. Not pitch decks. We explain the context and what opportunities we see. 👀 Then we get into the weird stuff. Robot skin made from human cells. Brain-controlled robots. Robots in Brains. Fight clubs. A happy robot whose only job is to stop grain bins from exploding. If you ever wondered what the robotics landscape actually looks like right now: This is it. 00:00 Intro 00:37 Logistics 📦 03:04 Energy ⚡ 05:22 Farming 🌾 07:47 Construction 🏗️ 09:46 Security 🔒 11:20 Humanoids 🧍‍♂️ 13:48 😵 Freak section

Andreas Klinger 🦾

28,578 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten

Elon's 5-year vision for Optimus: Three things are growing exponentially and multiplying each other recursively: digital intelligence, AI chip capability, and electromechanical dexterity. "The usefulness of the robot is roughly those three things multiplied by each other." Then the robot starts building more robots. "You have a recursive multiplicative exponential. This is a supernova." He calls Optimus the infinite money glitch because you can use them to make more Optimuses. Each generation gets cheaper because the previous generation manufactures it. His target: Optimus 3 at 1 million units a year. Optimus 4 at 10 million. After that, Grok orchestrates the Optimi. Assigns them tasks. Builds factories. "Let's say you wanted to build a factory. Grok could organize the Optimus robots, assign them tasks to build the factory to produce whatever you want." You don't need to raise another $2B from VCs for the factory expansion. You don't hire 10,000 workers. You deploy the robots you already have. The recursion compresses the timeline from decades to years.

Elon's 5-year vision for Optimus: Three things are growing exponentially and multiplying each other recursively: digital intelligence, AI chip capability, and electromechanical dexterity. "The usefulness of the robot is roughly those three things multiplied by each other." Then the robot starts building more robots. "You have a recursive multiplicative exponential. This is a supernova." He calls Optimus the infinite money glitch because you can use them to make more Optimuses. Each generation gets cheaper because the previous generation manufactures it. His target: Optimus 3 at 1 million units a year. Optimus 4 at 10 million. After that, Grok orchestrates the Optimi. Assigns them tasks. Builds factories. "Let's say you wanted to build a factory. Grok could organize the Optimus robots, assign them tasks to build the factory to produce whatever you want." You don't need to raise another $2B from VCs for the factory expansion. You don't hire 10,000 workers. You deploy the robots you already have. The recursion compresses the timeline from decades to years.

Founder Mode

28,898 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

Simulation-first approach to robotic production lines! 👾 At Hannover Messe, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and SoftServe are demonstrating a fully autonomous, AI-powered manufacturing workflow. Design a product using generative AI, then watch it move through the entire process: engraving, inspection, and delivery, handled by a mix of robots working together powered by physical AI on AWS. The interesting part is how the system is built. Getting robots into production is usually where things fall apart. SoftServe takes a simulation-first approach using AWS. They build and test the entire system virtually: robot behavior, production flow, before deploying anything physically. This enables faster iteration, safe edge case testing, and significantly reduced sim-to-real gap. Their demo includes AMRs handling transport, cobots doing precise manipulation, AI-driven quality inspection, and humanoid interaction at the end. All connected through a unified, software-defined layer powered by AWS. It's about building a system where robots can adapt, coordinate, and scale without rebuilding everything from scratch every time. ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →

Simulation-first approach to robotic production lines! 👾 At Hannover Messe, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and SoftServe are demonstrating a fully autonomous, AI-powered manufacturing workflow. Design a product using generative AI, then watch it move through the entire process: engraving, inspection, and delivery, handled by a mix of robots working together powered by physical AI on AWS. The interesting part is how the system is built. Getting robots into production is usually where things fall apart. SoftServe takes a simulation-first approach using AWS. They build and test the entire system virtually: robot behavior, production flow, before deploying anything physically. This enables faster iteration, safe edge case testing, and significantly reduced sim-to-real gap. Their demo includes AMRs handling transport, cobots doing precise manipulation, AI-driven quality inspection, and humanoid interaction at the end. All connected through a unified, software-defined layer powered by AWS. It's about building a system where robots can adapt, coordinate, and scale without rebuilding everything from scratch every time. ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →

Lukas Ziegler

17,709 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

It’s a new week, and many people are considering starting their building projects. One thing I’ve observed is that most project challenges don’t begin during construction, they begin long before the brief is even properly defined. Questions like: Is the budget realistic? Am I truly prepared to start this project? Which professional competence can I rely on to guide me through it? When these are not clearly addressed at the outset, the project becomes much harder to control in terms of cost, time, and quality. Proper planning and early professional input make the entire process more predictable, structured, and efficient. And one key principle to always remember: the best way to save cost in construction is to do it right the first time.

It’s a new week, and many people are considering starting their building projects. One thing I’ve observed is that most project challenges don’t begin during construction, they begin long before the brief is even properly defined. Questions like: Is the budget realistic? Am I truly prepared to start this project? Which professional competence can I rely on to guide me through it? When these are not clearly addressed at the outset, the project becomes much harder to control in terms of cost, time, and quality. Proper planning and early professional input make the entire process more predictable, structured, and efficient. And one key principle to always remember: the best way to save cost in construction is to do it right the first time.

ConstructionPM🪖 ✨

20,417 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

NEURALINK IS CUTTING OUT EVERY MIDDLEMAN: NOW BUILDING ITS OWN FACTORIES AND ROBOTS Neuralink co-founder DJ Seo just dropped the mic: the company is pouring “tons and tons of money” into owning the entire stack. From microfabrication and implant manufacturing to robotics, surgery, pathology, animal care, neuroengineering, next-gen apps, imaging, and even their own construction crews building a custom HQ in Austin. It’s SpaceX/Tesla playbook, no suppliers, no middlemen, like Henry Ford envisioned, just pure speed and control. Cheaper parts, faster iterations, and 0 outside bottlenecks while the rest of the BCI world waits on fabs and contractors. Neuralink isn’t just making brain chips. They’re building the entire cyborg factory from the ground up, and they’re not slowing down for anyone. Source: Neuralink

NEURALINK IS CUTTING OUT EVERY MIDDLEMAN: NOW BUILDING ITS OWN FACTORIES AND ROBOTS Neuralink co-founder DJ Seo just dropped the mic: the company is pouring “tons and tons of money” into owning the entire stack. From microfabrication and implant manufacturing to robotics, surgery, pathology, animal care, neuroengineering, next-gen apps, imaging, and even their own construction crews building a custom HQ in Austin. It’s SpaceX/Tesla playbook, no suppliers, no middlemen, like Henry Ford envisioned, just pure speed and control. Cheaper parts, faster iterations, and 0 outside bottlenecks while the rest of the BCI world waits on fabs and contractors. Neuralink isn’t just making brain chips. They’re building the entire cyborg factory from the ground up, and they’re not slowing down for anyone. Source: Neuralink

Mario Nawfal

81,789 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten