Back in 2015 we looked at an interesting approach to automated construction in the form of a brick-laying robot, capable of putting together full-sized homes in just two days. The engineers behind the ...

The following is an excerpt from Jonathan Waldman’s new book, “SAM: One Robot, a Dozen Engineers, and the Race to Revolutionize the Way We Build” about one man’s attempt to do the nearly impossible.

A brick-laying robot named Hadrian X has broken its own record for speed, which is now up to 200 concrete blocks per hour—with the next landmark set at 240. (Its sibling robot Hadrian 112 aims to ...

Meet Hadrian, an Australian brick-laying robot capable of laying 1,000 bricks per hour and constructing a property’s framework at a rate 20 times faster than a human bricklayer — and because Hadrian ...

The world is another step closer to a bricklaying robot that can build the framework of a house in less than three days. Caterpillar has invested US$2 million in Fastbrick Robotics, the Australian ...

SINGAPORE—China is exploring the possibility of developing a lunar soil brick-making robot, designed to help build and maintain the country’s future Moon base. Known as the Super Mason, the robot is ...

Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video Producer for CNET. He covers future tech, sustainability and the social impact of technology. He is co-host of CNET's "What The Future" series and Executive ...

A spider-like construction robot designed in Australia is edging toward a role that once belonged only in science fiction: ...

This robot, built out of LEGO bricks and a Raspberry Pi, brute-forced an iPhone for PIN codes. Security researchers from the Ruhr University Bochum, Max Planck ...

The following is an excerpt from Jonathan Waldman’s new book, “SAM: One Robot, a Dozen Engineers, and the Race to Revolutionize the Way We Build” about one man’s attempt to do the nearly impossible.