{"id":116480,"date":"2020-11-30T18:22:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T02:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/how-autonomous-robots-are-changing-construction"},"modified":"2020-11-30T18:22:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T02:22:51","slug":"how-autonomous-robots-are-changing-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/how-autonomous-robots-are-changing-construction","title":{"rendered":"How autonomous robots are changing construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-autonomous-robots-are-changing-construction.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a lot of buzz around self-driving cars, but autonomous driving technology could revolutionize the construction industry first. That industry hasn\u2019t changed much over the last several decades, according to some experts, making it an ideal candidate for automation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way we build today is largely unchanged from the way we used to build 50 years ago,\u201d said Gaurav Kikani, vice president of Built Robotics. \u201cWithin two years, I think we\u2019re really going to turn the corner, and you\u2019re going to see an explosion of robotics being used on construction sites.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The industry is also faced with a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uschamber.com\/report\/us-chamber-of-commerce-commercial-construction-index-2020-q3\" target=\"_blank\"> labor shortage<\/a> that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/coronavirus\/\">Covid-19 pandemic<\/a> has further complicated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a lot of buzz around self-driving cars, but autonomous driving technology could revolutionize the construction industry first. That industry hasn\u2019t changed much over the last several decades, according to some experts, making it an ideal candidate for automation. \u201cThe way we build today is largely unchanged from the way we used to build 50 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}