At a housing construction site in Gananoque, Ont., Val spends nearly two months laying concrete, used to build 26 stacked townhouse units.
Val's task is a simple, but crucial part of the project by developer Horizon Legacy, which is slated to open this fall.
Operated by a crew of three to five technicians and programmers, Val"does most of the heavy lifting, repetitive work," said Horizon Legacy CEO Nhung Nguyen — or"the parts that people don't want to do in construction.""We think it could really be a different way to approach the problems that we've been experiencing, and a solution that can be scalable to address the housing crisis and the labour shortage crisis in Canada.
Up in Sudbury, Ont., researcher Steven Beites and a team of engineers have been working on their own prototype of a homebuilder robot. He said it would be able to pick up a wall panel, move and rotate it, and position it in place. They say an industry that's been too slow to incorporate automation in their operations now faces a pressing issue: a labour shortage that is set to worsen at a time Canada already is in desperate need of more housing.
CHBA CEO Kevin Lee said that unlike the auto sector, which was quicker to embrace robotics, home construction"is not an industry of big players with big, big factories." "This robot is capable of doing tasks that traditionally was really just the domain of humans," said Promise Robotics co-founder Ramtin Attar. He said the technology can produce walls, floors and stairs, as the robot's functions range from notching, cutting, nailing, screwing and gluing.
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