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Robots move Shanghai city block [video]

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142 points surprisetalk | 2 comments | 03 Jul 25 14:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.523s | source
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selimnairb ◴[04 Jul 25 22:36 UTC] No.44468496[source]▶
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.
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1. nottorp ◴[05 Jul 25 14:22 UTC] No.44473006[source]▶
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:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_relocation

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2. linsomniac ◴[05 Jul 25 15:06 UTC] No.44473262[source]▶
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...