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Perryn Olson, our CMO, spoke to with Scott MacKenzie, the host of Industrial Talk about using robots in construction to improve safety and efficiency.
Perryn shared several use cases for construction robots on jobsites including one SuperDroid is tackling with their newest robot, the Groundhog. He said that this isn’t actually a dangerous or dirty job in construction, its just dull and repetitive. Perryn walked Scott through a basic business case where the Groundhog autonomously navigates a construction jobsite taking 360-degree images for the contractor who shares them with their client to show progress, known as “progress monitoring” in the industry.
Typically, a general superintendent on the construction project has to spend 2-3 hours walking the jobsite with a tripod and stop to take the 360-images every 4-6 feet depending on the reality capture software they’re utilizing. The robot essentially becomes an automated roving tripod, that can work after the tradespeople leave to reduce privacy concerns.
Perryn also spoke about other robots that SuperDroid builds for construction companies and other industries and how studies have shown that robots create more jobs than replacing jobs.