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Tech startups are developing self-driving bulldozers, survey drones and bricklaying robots to help the construction industry boost productivity and...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eLEADIN:\u003cbr/\u003e              Robots are coming to a construction site near you.\u003cbr/\u003e              Tech startups are developing self-driving bulldozers, survey drones and bricklaying robots to help the construction industry boost productivity and manage a shortage of skilled labour.\u003cbr/\u003e              STORYLINE:\u003cbr/\u003e              The newest member of this bricklaying crew is not a human but a robot.\u003cbr/\u003e              SAM, short for Semi-Automated Mason, can lay around 3,000 bricks a day - several times more than someone working by hand.\u003cbr/\u003e              The masonry firm helping to build this new elementary school turned to New York-based Construction Robotics, the creator of SAM, because it can't keep up with demand.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"The drive behind this was to look at some technology to be able to allow me to do more volume and keep my current customers happy by doing more of their work,\" says Todd Berich, president of Berich Masonry.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Because right now, I have to tell them no, because we're at capacity.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Built Robotics is developing technology that allows heavy construction vehicles - like this compact track loader - drive themselves.\u003cbr/\u003e              The San Francisco startup was founded by Noah Ready-Campbell, a former Google engineer who grew up working in his dad's construction business.\u003cbr/\u003e              He believes autonomous machines will make construction faster, cheaper and safer.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"If we can reduce the cost of excavation, grading, site prep, then we can actually accomplish more of the work that we need to do in this country,\" he says.\u003cbr/\u003e              The rise of construction robots comes as the building industry faces a severe labour shortage.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"To get qualified people to handle a loader, or a haul truck, or even run a plant, they're hard to find right now. Or mechanics to maintain this equipment,\" says Mike Moy, assistant plant manager at Lehigh Hanson.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Nobody wants to get their hands dirty anymore. They want the nice, clean job in an office and make lots of money doing that.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              At this mining plant, Moy uses a drone to survey piles of rock and sand his company sells for construction.\u003cbr/\u003e              The autonomous drone can survey the entire 90-acre site in 25 minutes - a job that used to take a whole day with a truck-mounted laser system. \u003cbr/\u003e              The drone is made by Silicon Valley-based Kespry, which converts the survey data into detailed 3D maps. \u003cbr/\u003e              \"Not only is it safer and faster, but you get more data, as much as ten to a hundred times more data,\" says Kespry CEO George Mathew.\u003cbr/\u003e              Analysts say the construction industry needs more technological innovation to boost productivity, build affordable housing and fix aging infrastructure.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"We need all of the robots we can get, plus all the workers working in order to have economic growth,\" says Michael Chui from McKinsey Global Institute.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"But what that means is, as machines start to do some of the work that people used to do, the people have to migrate and transition to other forms of work, which will mean lots of retraining.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Berich Masonry workers spent several weeks learning how to operate SAM, the bricklaying robot, which requires two or three people to run.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"It's not replacing them,\" says Zak Podkaminer from Construction Robotics\u003cbr/\u003e              \"They still have all the masons on this job site that they normally would have. They're just going to be able to get off this job site quicker and get to the next one sooner.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              Humans and robots working together to reshape the construction industry.\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              Englewood, Colorado, US - 27 February 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              1. Mid of worker scraping excess mortar from brick wall\u003cbr/\u003e              2. Wide of workers on scaffolding on construction site\u003cbr/\u003e              3. Mid of SAM, brick laying robot\u003cbr/\u003e              4. Close of brick in machine\u003cbr/\u003e              5. Close of worker scraping excess mortar from brick wall\u003cbr/\u003e              6. Wide of worker walking next to brick wall under construction\u003cbr/\u003e              7. Wide of school exterior under construction\u003cbr/\u003e              8. Mid of SAM, brick laying robot\u003cbr/\u003e              9. Close of robot spreading brick with mortar\u003cbr/\u003e              10. SOUNDBITE (English) Todd Berich, President of Berich Masonry:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"The drive behind this was to look at some technology to be able to allow me to do more volume and keep my current customers happy by doing more of their work. Because right now, I have to tell them no, because we're at capacity.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS\u003cbr/\u003e              San Francisco, US - 23 January 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              11. Various of autonomous bulldozer moving earth around lot\u003cbr/\u003e              12. Mid of Noah Ready-Campbell, CEO of Built Robotics, pointing to sensor on top of bulldozer\u003cbr/\u003e              13. Close of sensor system on bulldozer\u003cbr/\u003e              14. Wide of Ready-Campbell standing next to bulldozer\u003cbr/\u003e              15. Various of bulldozer pushing earth in lot\u003cbr/\u003e              16. Wide of bulldozer seen through window, engineer works on laptop\u003cbr/\u003e              17. SOUNDBITE (English) Noah Ready-Campbell, CEO of Built Robotics:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"There's a trillion dollars of roads, bridges, schools, everything that needs to built, or maintained, or upgraded. And the biggest blocker for doing all of that is the cost. So if we can reduce the cost of excavation, grading, site prep, then we can actually accomplish more of the work that we need to do in this country.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Sunol, California, US - 26 January 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              18. Various of construction vehicles loading and hauling rocks and sand at Lehigh Hanson mining plant\u003cbr/\u003e              19. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Moy, Lehigh Hanson, Assistant Plant Manager:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"To get qualified people to handle a loader, or a haul truck, or even run a plant, they're hard to find right now. Or mechanics to maintain this equipment. Nobody wants to get their hands dirty anymore. They want the nice, clean job in an office and make lots of money doing that.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              20. Mid of Kespry drone taking off\u003cbr/\u003e              21. Aerial shot of drone taking off, workers watching\u003cbr/\u003e              23. Mid of Moy watching drone\u003cbr/\u003e              24. Low shot of drone in flight\u003cbr/\u003e              25. Aerial shot of piles of sand and rock at mining plant\u003cbr/\u003e              26. Close of drone in flight\u003cbr/\u003e              27. Aerial shot of piles of sand and rock at mining plant\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Menlo Park, California, US - 18 January 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              28. Setup shot of George Mathew, CEO of Kespry, taking drone from shelf\u003cbr/\u003e              29. Close of Kespry drone\u003cbr/\u003e              30. Various of screen, showing 3D maps of construction sites\u003cbr/\u003e              31. SOUNDBITE (English) George Mathew, CEO of Kespry:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"So, the advantage is in the survey market is not only is it safer and faster, but you get more data, as much as ten to a hundred times more data, with the fact that you're autonomously flying a drone to collect all those survey points.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Sunol, California, US - 26 January 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              32. Various of construction vehicles driving in mining plant\u003cbr/\u003e              33. Mid of rock and sand processing machine\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              San Francisco, California, US - 12 January 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              34. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Chui, Partner, McKinsey Global Institute:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"We need all of the robots we can get, plus all the workers working in order to have economic growth. But what that means is, as machines start to do some of the work that people used to do, the people have to migrate and transition to other forms of work, which will mean lots of retraining.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              San Francisco, US - 23 January 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              35. Wide of Built Robotics autonomous bulldozer moving earth \u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Menlo Park, California, US - 18 January 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              36. Various of workers assembling drones in Kespry workshop\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Englewood, Colorado, US - 27 February 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              37. Mid of platform holding SAM Robot moving on scaffolding\u003cbr/\u003e              38. Mid of worker looking at computer screen\u003cbr/\u003e              39. Mid of robotic arm laying brick\u003cbr/\u003e              40. Various of worker loading mortar into machine\u003cbr/\u003e              41. SOUNDBITE (English) Zak Podkaminer, Construction Robotics:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"It's not replacing them. They still have all the masons on this job site that they normally would have. They're just going to be able to get off this job site quicker and get to the next one sooner.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              42. Long shot of Mason cleaning up bricks laid by robot\u003cbr/\u003e              43. Mid of SAM, brick laying robot\u003cbr/\u003e              44. 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