By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning Daily News Daily News – According to news reporting originatin g from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx journalists, a patent application by the inve ntors Gelderloos, Sietze Tobias (Amsterdam, NL); Joubert, Philip (Haarlem, NL); Tsivanidis, Niall Alexander (Amsterdam, NL); Van Vugt, Joris Johannes Lambertus (Utrecht, NL); Visser, Sebastiaan Floor (Utrecht, NL); al Khafaji, Salar (Amster dam, NL), filed on March 1, 2024, was made available online on September 5, 2024 . No assignee for this patent application has been made. Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “Construction is one the biggest industries on earth (13% of worldwide GDP), but has experienced negative productivity growth in the last decades. In the industrialized world, construction has become more expensive (ev en when correcting for inflation), slower and, many feel, uglier. Meanwhile, acu te labor shortages have been affecting the industry for over a decade now and de mographic and social trends have made this a permanent secular trend. As a resul t, lack of affordable housing is one of the top problems affecting industrialize d nations today.
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