You may not know this, but I received a bachelor of science degree in geology many moons ago. I was fascinated by the topic, ...

Completing the rather tedious task of removing the mortar is, somewhat unfortunately, essential. If you tried to lay the lumpy-bumpy old bricks as is, you'd potentially end up with a very wonky wall.

Australian company FBR’s Hadrian X is a tablet-controlled system that follows CAD models to lay the blocks one by ... quickly that there’s no time for mortar, so they dip the bottom of each ...

SAM can lay bricks three times faster than a normal brick layer. SAM isn’t planning on taking away any jobs yet though — it still needs a human mason following behind to clean up the mortar.