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Robots move Shanghai city block [video]

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142 points surprisetalk | 1 comments | 03 Jul 25 14:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.428s | 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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orbital-decay ◴[05 Jul 25 13:05 UTC] No.44472545[source]▶
Structure relocation is 19th century tech, still as fascinating as back then. This was done all over the world, on a much bigger scale than a single block. In some US cities in particular, and in Moscow they moved entire streets like that, with people inside.

It's just expensive and there's no reason to do that unless the city is being actively developed, which Shanghai still is, and older structures are in the way.

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1. hombre_fatal ◴[05 Jul 25 14:16 UTC] No.44472966[source]▶
I think the real question is whether we can do it today.

e.g. When NYC expanded its subway system for the first time in 50 years in 2017, it cost $2.5 billion per mile. 8-12x more expensive than similar projects in foreign cities.

There might be too much regulation and too much cost and too many meetings and too many contractors and too much political conflict to do many of the feats we did in the 19th and 20th century.