DogBot and the Possibilities for Autonomous Construction

With intelligent robotics and AI-driven analysis and insight, the construction site can become a self-monitoring, self-regulating system. Greg Epps explains.

Leading construction companies in the UK have a profit margin of less than 1%. Where do those profits go? 21% of them go to rework on-site. That’s in part because, using traditional construction processes, architects, contractors, subcontractors, engineers, and workers all have different goals and different views of what’s happening. Errors are accepted as a part of the process. React Robotics is developing robotic systems with advanced sensors and AI-driven control systems that can navigate the complex and dangerous world of the construction site autonomously. By attaching LiDAR or other scanning devices, you can get both data and insight about your construction site in near real time, enabling you to prevent errors before they happen, make better decisions, reduce costs, and increase overall efficiency. Greg Epps introduces us to DogBot, the first product from React Robotics, a quadruped that can move over almost any kind of terrain, and shares how it may one day enable an autonomous building site that can monitor and regulate itself without outside input day to day.

About the speaker

Greg Epps is a seasoned entrepreneur, roboticist, and CEO of React Robotics. Formerly, he was the CEO of Robots.io and founder of RoboFold, Ltd. He holds a master’s degree in Innovation Design Engineering from Imperial College London.

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