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		inasio on Aug 3, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Where are the robotic bricklayers? They state in the article that the main problem is not in positioning the bricks/blocks, but on handling the cement mixture (non-Newtonian fluid...)

punnerud on Aug 4, 2021 [–]

True. Hard to get enough people to work on the non-Newtonian problem when the robot is expensive. Easier to have several of them, and fix any mechanical problem on the robot, when the robot is simple and inexpensive

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