# SAM100 robot laid uninterrupted brick walls on University of Nevada, Reno's Arts Building, while masons laid corners, openings and the first courses by hand, the university reported

Page: https://flyvolo.ai/en/changes/ev-20180822-bricklayer-6
Date: 2018-08-22 · Stage: Deployment
Can this record move a task judgement? yes
Occupation: https://flyvolo.ai/en/careers/bricklayer

## Scope

A construction news story on the University of Nevada, Reno's own site about its $35.5 million University Arts Building (2018-08-22), quoting the general contractor's project manager and the masonry subcontractor's owner and foreman. It establishes that on this one project a bricklaying robot, Construction Robotics' SAM100, laid brick on long uninterrupted wall runs while a mason by hand laid the first five feet of any area, corners, and the sections around windows and doors, and workers set up scaffolding and the robot, loaded its bricks and mortar, aligned rows, cleaned mortar joints and did finishing touches. The masonry subcontractor is Nevada's only SAM-certified contractor with exclusive rights to it, so the account also promotes that contractor's own services. One project, one country, two contractors' own account as told to their client's news office; it gives the general contractor's estimate that the robot did the work of five masons and cut brick veneer installation time by half, not an independent measurement, and it says nothing about bricklayers' overall numbers or pay.

## Source

- University of Nevada, Reno — Nevada Today (University Arts Building construction) — https://www.unr.edu/nevada-today/news/2018/semi-automated-mason-robot (primary source)

## What this means

On this one US project, the bricklaying robot laid the long uninterrupted wall runs and a mason did the rest by hand: the first five feet of any area, corners, window and door openings, plus aligning rows, cleaning joints and finishing.

## What it does not show yet

It does not say how many masonry jobs or hours this changed, whether the split holds on other projects or other contractors, or anything about pay.

## How to verify it yourself

Ask a masonry contractor near you whether they have used a bricklaying robot on a job, and if so, which parts of the wall it did and did not lay.


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