A new bricklayer has joined the crew building a new high school in Foxhall.
That new worker is a robot: Sam, short for SAM100, which is short for “semi-automated mason.”
The new construction tool is being used by Clark Construction Group to help build The Lab School’s new campus.
Sam is the first commercially available, on-site, bricklaying robot in the world, the Washington Business Journal reports.
The patent-pending robot weighs about 300 pounds, runs on a propane generator and can be carried around the construction site in a forklift. It can sense whether a brick is usable, and where it needs to go. Good job, Sam.
Watch SAM100 at work