Monumental Makes Construction Bots Play Nice Together | E2217

We built three types of robots that work together. They actually share one platform. The main one obviously is doing the bricklaying, but we also immediately decided to build one that supplies the bricks and then one that supplies the mortar. A big part of automating construction is actually about automating like the supply chain on construction side. Is it kind of like end-to-end automated or do humans still need to do any loading or unloading in the uh the workflow process?

Right now we decided to have like our core focus is as we call it like the wall autonomy, like as you're building a facade basically. And so the loading and loading currently is still done by an operator. So basically, even though there's still a little bit of humans required to make this work, the process is basically entirely machine driven and the human inputs are going down. And even currently today, they're minimal. So you guys are almost there, sounds like.

Do they already play nice with one another or do you have to kind of keep them in separate zones so they don't, you know, butt arms? They can play together very nicely, yes. This week in Startups is brought to you by Pilot. Focus on your product. Let Pilot handle your bookkeeping.

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