Growing labor shortages continue to plague the construction industry, while trade schools and job training programs report their current enrollment won’t make up for a wave of retiring skilled workers. Robotic solutions to repetitive, labor-intensive tasks on construction sites are already available, but a new generation of robots aims to boost workforce efficiency by tackling the tedious and dangerous tasks that plague general and specialty contractors.

Reprinted courtesy of Jeff Yoders, ENR and Jeff Rubenstone, ENR

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