Roger Kisby / The New York Times
A demonstration from a SAM (semi-automated mason) robot at Bricklayer 500 championship outside the Las Vegas Convention Center, Jan. 24, 2018. SAM is far from being widely adopted. There are only 11 of them, costing roughly $400,000 each, a prohibitive amount for many small contractors.
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