Safety, quality, schedule, and cost impacts of ten construction robots.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Robots have increased productivity, quality, and safety in structured manufacturing environments while lowering production costs. In the last decade, advances in computing and sensing have started to enable robots in unstructured environments such as construction.

Objectives

Given this new reality, this research aims to quantify the impacts of existing construction robots.

Methods

This study evaluates the Safety, Quality, Schedule, and Cost impacts of ten on-site construction robots for 12 construction projects spanning 11 contractors from Europe, Asia, South America, and the United States.

Results

The robots showed the potential to reduce repetitive site work between 25 and 90% and reduce time spent on hazardous tasks by 72% on average. On average

SUBMITTER: Brosque C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9244236 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature