Never laid a brick in your life? Here's how to get started originally appeared on Dengarden. When I first picked up a trowel, I didn't have a clue how to use it. The people who were supposed to be ...

Back in 2015 we looked at an interesting approach to automated construction in the form of a brick-laying robot, capable of putting together full-sized homes in just two days. The engineers behind the ...

The following is an excerpt from Jonathan Waldman’s new book, “SAM: One Robot, a Dozen Engineers, and the Race to Revolutionize the Way We Build” about one man’s attempt to do the nearly impossible.

If I couldn't be standing at the ocean's edge feeling the sand wash out from under my feet, playing in the sand laying brick pavers wasn't so bad. Well, actually, it was kind of brutal in the heat of ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...