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Robots move Shanghai city block [video]

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140 points surprisetalk | 2 comments | 03 Jul 25 14:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.003s | source
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bmmayer1 ◴[04 Jul 25 22:36 UTC] No.44468501[source]▶
This is incredible -- serious question -- has anything of this scale been done in the US or Europe? Do we even have the technology?
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1. dcrazy ◴[04 Jul 25 23:01 UTC] No.44468655[source]▶
In 1930 they moved an entire telephone exchange in Indianapolis without even taking it offline: https://indianahistory.org/blog/instead-of-moving-mountains-...

The technology in this video appears to be computer control of the many pistons underneath the raised block. I would estimate that could be done with roughly 1970s-level of technology.

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2. pxc ◴[04 Jul 25 23:12 UTC] No.44468736[source]▶
So the impressive thing is really the social coordination, the project management, which was doubtless challenging but is hardly unique.

It's still kind of a wonderful, imo. And it's awesome to be able to see it on video like this.