Watch a giant house-building robot lay 1,000 bricks per hour

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Australia’s Fastbrick Robotics wants to shake up the world of Bob the Builder with a new bricklaying machine that can build a house four times faster than its human counterpart. Don’t believe it? Check out this time-lapse video showcasing the effective build process and accuracy of the company’s Hadrian line of bricklayer robots.Related: Study: Robot surgeons as good as humans, despite what your doc might sayUnveiled last year, the Hadrian is an “end-to-end” bricklaying robot that automates the very labor intensive process of laying down bricks. The Hadrian is being pitched as a game-changer capable of completing the brickwork on a house in just a few days at a lower cost and a higher quality level than manual bricklaying methods. After achieving impressive results with the Hadrian 105, the company is preparing to build the next generation robot prototype, the Hadrian X, reports Business Insider. The X model is even bigger and faster than the 105 model; which was built as a technology demonstrator.The Hadrian X features a 30-meter boom capable of placing bricks at a rate of 1,000 per hour as compared to a 28-meter boom and 225 bricks per hour of the 105. The new version of the robot can handle different brick sizes as well as can cut, grind, mill, and route the bricks to fit the structure before laying them down. Instead of a traditional mortar and rebar design, the machine uses both construction adhesives to hold the bricks together and interlocking precision bricks that are 15 times larger than standard bricks. This system “will produce structurally sound wall to renderable quality at speeds never seen before”, said Fastbrick Operations Manager Gary Paull.