A total brick laying robot. This is quite amazing but... it's another process that eliminates the labourer. Jobless rate rises!! Jobs becoming extinct. Sad really. What do people do when they have nothing to do and have no money? The global population is increasing but the jobs are declining because of the automated world. What are your thoughts?
www.news.com.au/national/western-australia/see-mark-pivacs-hadrian-109-build-a-house-as-fastbrick-robotics-lists-on-asx/news-story/ca73e40ddca47be9d6db7de116fc01ac
Given a lot of Ausies think they're above repetitive manual labour for minumum award wage we needs the robots to get sh1t done. Or, we can keep buying stuff made in China.
because there was no one who designed and built that robot or maintains it...
1 Jobless labourer could mean 5 more jobs created - then we get better at making robots and export them rather than coal.
If its not us it will just be another country who we end up buying them from
good ! apparently there is a shortage of brickies in Melbourne if the plastered timber frames $hit being built all over.
bring on the proper double brick (cheap ?) houses built by robots ! 
Not all jobs are at risk. Are they?
What about escorts ? Definitely could be economical, serve more customers for less.
Not a bad thing at all....as mentioned that robot creates employment in other industries.
If your kids are stuck on being a brickie other manual type employment for a career then yes, some trouble is brewing.
Educate your kids in technology related fields, otherwise they will find themselves on the wrong side of a growing wealth divide in the future....
Of course it's good for the economy - more productivity = less input for more output.
Of course in the short term it may not be good for some particular participants in the economy i.e. bricklayers, but they can be deployed elsewhere.
If things that could otherwise be automated were done manually just for the sake of jobs, we might as well do away with combine harvesters and all go and cut the wheat with nail-scissors. At least we'd be busy! 
There are plenty of other jobs that will disappear or at least be diminished in the future, and many are white-collar; salespeople of various types (cars, real estate, travel), for example.
It's OK.
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Of course it's good for the economy - more productivity = less input for more output.
Unfortunately that statement represents everything that is wrong with the global economy.
A more logical statement would read 'more input for a better (and more sustainable) output.'
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We come from goldfish, essentially, but that [doesn't] mean we turned around and killed all the goldfish. Maybe [the machines] will feed us once a week....If you had a machine with a 10 to the 18th power IQ over humans, wouldn't you want it to govern, or at least control your economy?
Bring on the robots. If we can get them set up so they do all the work and we just concentrate on whatever it is we enjoy (kitesurfing etc), and still have a good standard of living (ie. Basic Income: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income), I reckon it will be much better than having to sell ourselves to the man for fortyish hours a week.
I, for one, welcome our new [machine] overlords...
Only problem is the robots will get built in china and then not long after that designed there too!! We can't win!!
Select to expand quoteSailhack said..AUS1111 said...
Of course it's good for the economy - more productivity = less input for more output.
Unfortunately that statement represents everything that is wrong with the global economy.
A more logical statement would read 'more input for a better (and more sustainable) output.'
How about "More input for a gender-neutral, sustainable output"?
Good idea !!!! bricklaying is most definitely a good job for a robot !!
may be they will cost less than a dollar a brick !!!
maybe they will lay a good brick !!
maybe they will keep working after lunch !!!
maybe they wont fill the cavity up with mud !
maybe they will tell the builder to order material before they run out of it !
Select to expand quoteAUS1111 said...Sailhack said..AUS1111 said...
Of course it's good for the economy - more productivity = less input for more output.
Unfortunately that statement represents everything that is wrong with the global economy.
A more logical statement would read 'more input for a better (and more sustainable) output.'
How about "More input for a gender-neutral, sustainable output"?
Now you're just being silly. 
"Good or bad for the economy"
We will be forced to rethink our model for the economy and society ..
cause at the end of a working week,
a robot doesn't go and spend his pay cheque at the store.
^^ Good point WaveSlave, but at the same time it has produced "widgets" during the working week that will benefit mankind.
I know much of it is consumer items at the moment, but relative to wages "stuff" cost much less than it ever did, so even if you're on the dole you can still buy stuff with money that is paid by tax from the people that own the robots. That wasn't the case years ago, unemployed could never dream of buying a new anything (fridge, tv, lounge,phone, etc)
But I do think life is more complicated now.
As for brick laying robots, how about 3D printed concrete walls, even cheaper still.
