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Future of robotics and automation in construction
Published in Anil Sawhney, Mike Riley, Javier Irizarry, Construction 4.0, 2020
Borja Garcia de Soto, Miroslaw J. Skibniewski
The primary limitations encountered in the early stages included the fact that economic gains were not as apparent as those observed in other industrial applications. For the most part, construction robots failed to increase productivity, and reduce construction durations, cost, or human resources. In addition, the construction technology and legal environment in the 1980s and 1990s were not favorable and one of the reasons why a robotic technology revolution did not happen then.
General introduction
Published in Adedeji B. Badiru, Handbook of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2013
Adaptability to hostile environments - construction robots would need to be weather proof, resistant to heavy falling objects as well as withstanding falls from heights. They would need to maintain precision of movement and manipulation when subjected to vibration dust, and abrasive/corrosive agents.
Digitalization’s impacts on productivity: a model-based approach and evaluation in Germany’s building construction industry
Published in Production Planning & Control, 2021
Joachim Berlak, Stefan Hafner, Volker G. Kuppelwieser
We refer to digitalization as the replacement of human Labour with technical information systems and/or automatized machines (Thommen and Achleitner 2016). Digitalization has only partially spread in building construction, since for instance fewer than half of employees in the industry have access to digital data, with extensive networking being the exception (Schober, Noelling, and Hoff 2016). Automation, which is currently the highest level of digitalization, is already available for building construction, for instance in the form of the 3D printing of concrete construction parts and the use of construction robots (Baumanns et al. 2016). Despite these digitalization technologies being available and their benefits having been proven (Lipson and Kurman 2013), their industrial use remains rare (Gosselin et al. 2016). This low implementation rate clearly indicates building construction’s lack of technology acceptance.