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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. MSFT_Edging ◴[05 Jul 25 14:47 UTC] No.44473150[source]▶

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I think it's more the general advancement in the tech. We used to do this by jacking up onto large sets of wheeled trucks or along rails. The many independent "walking" hydraulic jacks walking in unison is the cool part.

We've been moving buildings for 100s of years, its cool to see the advances in it.

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