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This title is misleading. It makes it seem like the robots did this autonomously, when in reality hundreds if workers were involved. The “robots” were “smart jacks” I would say. Humans couldn’t have done this without hydraulic jacks, they used fancy hydraulic jacks.
I was not really lead to believe they did this autonomously. It seemed to me like either (a) they were doing the lockstep in a pre-programmed way that required timing of the equipment working together or (b) the same but with humans operating the timing. In either case I find the use of robots impressive.
I was expecting to see a few hundred humanoid robots picking up things and moving them. Appreciate the comment here as it informed me and saved from the click and drain of youtube things.
Pretty sure it's been done in the past without "AI".
Earliest example on wikipedia seems to be from 1930:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Building_(Indianapolis)
More here:
The Indianapolis AT&T building is particularly interesting because it was a telephone exchange AND they did the move while keeping the exchange in operation. https://www.archdaily.com/973183/the-building-that-moved-how...
I don't think they used AI nor claimed to have used AI. The interviewee just said "We monitor abnormal deformation of the buildings in real time."
I think it's more the general advancement in the tech. We used to do this by jacking up onto large sets of wheeled trucks or along rails. The many independent "walking" hydraulic jacks walking in unison is the cool part.
We've been moving buildings for 100s of years, its cool to see the advances in it.