Abstract
The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background informa tion supplied by the inventors: “Autonomous and semi-autonomous industrial robot ic equipment is increasingly being used in outside work environments such as on construction sites, building sites, mining sites, and industrial sites. In many cases the equipment comprises robots which can grasp, manipulate and place objec ts. One such system is a robotic construction robot in which a telescoping artic ulated arm is mounted on a truck, and a conveyor transports bricks to a layhead mounted at the end of the arm which includes a lay robot, which lays the bricks. When the brick arrives at the layhead, adhesive is applied to it and a gripper assembly of the lay robot grips it and moves it to a lay location where the bric k is placed, preferably to within sub-mm accuracy. The applicant’s brick laying construction robot is described in more detail in co-pending applications PCT/AU 2017/050731, PCT/AU2017/050730, PCT/AU2017/050728, PCT/AU2017/050739, PCT/AU2017 /050738 and PCT/AU2018/050698.
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