APPLICATION OF INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS INTO CONSTRUCTING OPERATIONS

Abstract

Industrial robots have been being utilized in manufacturing industries for improving productivity and quality of working life of field workers. The main usage of robots are material handling, welding, painting and so forth.
Increasing productivity in constructing industry has mainly been accomplished by mechanization in the past. By introducing industrial robots we can expand the possibility of automatization down to previously impossible field.
As an example of the robotization research in constructing industry the authors introduce the outline of“A robotization model desingn research project of reinforced concrete building constructing forms handling and assembly operations”which is sponsored by Japan Industrial Robot Association and executed at System Science Institute, Waseda University.