Driverless Future of Construction Robotics
These are excavators But this one is different. No one is operating it. As our world continues to grow and evolve, so do our infrastructure needs. - Bridges are gonna fall apart. Dams are gonna break. Levies are gonna be overwhelmed, and the reason that we're not doing that kind of work right now is it's just too expensive. But if we don't take care of them, then it's going to costeven more in the long run. - This is Noah Ready-Campbell. His company, Built Robotics, is dedicated to finding a solution. - You know, those kinds ofmassive infrastructural projects, they need to happen overthe next 10, 20 years. I think robots are gonnaplay a really big role. - If they succeed, itwould fundamentally change the way our world is built. But how? (upbeat music) - If you were aconstruction worker in 1900 and you looked at how people build today, it's very similar actually. So, the industry's just,it`s been kind of static.
- At the start of the twentieth century, hydraulics made theirway into construction. In the 1960s, thistechnology became mainstream. What used to powered by cables and steam now had the power andprecision of hydraulics. But since then, not much has changed. - We really believe thatwhat's gonna happen next is that you're notgonna see the innovation on the mechanical side, and instead you're gonna start to see it on the software side. You don't necessarilyneed to have a person who's in there moving every single lever. Here's an opportunity toreally make a big difference in an industry neglected or ignored by the technologyindustry for a long time. (piano beat) - Silicon Valley hasn'treally made in roads in the construction industry, but Noah has history there. (soothing music) I started Built, because mydad worked in construction when I was a kid and everysummer I worked for him. When I was in high school, back in 2016, I was like, Dad, look, there's this idea. I really want to tell you about it. I think I know what I wannado for my next company.
I wanna automate heavy equipment and he's like, "Look, ifyou really wanna do this, before you automate equipment, you better learn how to operate it first." So, next morning, I woke up, I called the local John Deere dealer and I rented an excavator. I told my mom that for Mother's Day, I was gonna dig her a pond. By the end of it, I could start kind ofget the gears turning, thinking about how I could write software to allow the machineto do some of the work that I was doing. Six months later, we had ourfirst prototype up and running. - Four years later, Built has done a dozenprojects on two continents. The way they've donethis is pretty clever. They actually don't makeany construction equipment. - So, what we developis an AI guidance system that you can install oncommercially available off the shelf equipmentfrom CAT, Deere, on to any of the major manufacturers.
Then we write the softwarethat goes inside that system and interfaces with the machine, so that it's able tonavigate around the job site and it's using stuff likeGPS, cameras, lidar radar in order to observe its environment. And then robotic equipment operators are able to load in plans or blueprints and then tell the machineexactly what they want to do. You set it up, you hit go, when you come back at the end of the day, the machine is done. (soothing music) - You might be wondering, isn't this just going totake away construction jobs? - Robots don't automatejobs, they automate tasks. We really think of the robotas basically a force multiplier for those operators on the jobsite.
So, you know they don't have to be doing those sort of mundane, simple tasks, which are kind of a waste of somebody with that level of skilland instead they can focus on the higher touch higher value work. Imagine a future where one operator is managing two, five oreven 10 of these machines. Job sites that used to sit idle, could now have robotsworking around the clock. A job that would have takenmonths before now takes weeks. How fast would we be ableto build the next Empire State Building or Panama Canal? - At the end of the day, I'm a nerd, like I love the technology, I think technology is actuallyan incredible force for good. And the long term visionis not just excavators, or not just earth moving. It's working on a varietyof different tasks throughout the whole construction stack. (upbeat music) It's already a massive industry, but there's actually a wholelot more that could be done. We could have much better roads. We don't have the same kind oftraffic. Building wind farms, solar farms, water pipelines, more energy efficient buildings.
I think there`s tremendous appetite where people want to shape the world. If we can figure out ways to let the humans focus on thedesign, the aesthetics, the art, that goes along with building and then let machines dothe more repetitive mundane, we can actually shape our environment in a way that could have aradical impact on everything. It's not just a matter of what we want, it's a matter of what is necessary. - Thanks for watching. I hope you like this video, please follow us on Facebook,YouTube and Instagram, so that we can continue to share stories about people thinking differentlyand changing the world.
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