@bricksbytespod

Disruptive media surfacing the tech and people shaping the physical world.

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Joined June 2022
Our latest documentary, out now 👇
The Factories That Build The Factories That Build The Homes (say that again) I am super excited and proud to FINALLY release our feature-documentary with @buildwithcuby. 🧵 Thread
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Bedrock’s excavators use cameras, LiDAR and onboard computing to detect people, vehicles and potential hazards around the machine. The goal is to make autonomous equipment safer than manually operated machinery.
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Bedrock deliberately started with one of construction’s hardest machines to master. Its team believes that solving autonomy for excavators will make expanding into other heavy equipment much easier.
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Construction’s most experienced operators are approaching retirement, but too few people are entering the industry to replace them. Autonomous machinery could help contractors close that growing workforce gap.
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Nobody is in the cab and nobody on site is controlling it. Bedrock’s autonomous excavators are now carrying out real work on live commercial construction sites.
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Bricks & Bytes retweeted
The people are the point That’s all, taking zero questions🐔
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Construction needs more skilled machine operators just as a major retirement wave approaches. So who will operate the equipment needed to build America’s next generation of infrastructure?
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Bricks & Bytes retweeted
You can wait until WSOS has: ✓ Genesis live ✓ physical-oil demand on-chain ✓ verified oil contracts ✓ an oil intelligence terminal ✓ a wider energy marketplace Or you can research the project while those things are still on the roadmap. October 7 is Phase 1. $WSOS is live now. Official route only → wsos.live
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Bricks & Bytes retweeted
Trafigura — one of the biggest commodity traders on Earth — just launched a dedicated tanker business with 14 VLCCs, specifically as oil-shipping economics are transformed by supply disruption. Read that again. Major commodity players aren’t merely trading the oil shock. They’re investing in the infrastructure required to move oil through it. That’s the bigger WSOS idea: Physical oil. Strategic infrastructure. Digital ownership. On-chain. And October 7 is where the next chapter starts. $WSOS Use the official Coinbase route only → wsos.live
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Bricks & Bytes retweeted
you’ve been “waiting for an entry” so long we assumed you retired clock in brother $OILRIG
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AI is making individuals faster. It isn't making companies better yet.
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Klas Berghede warns of a real risk: amplifying mediocracy, where everyone does more of whatever they were already doing, without anyone converging that energy on what actually matters. Worth sitting with. #bricksbucksandbytes #constructiontech #contech #aec
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Twenty years ago, half a building's cost was labor and half was material. That's not true anymore.
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Klas Berghede says on complex projects like hospitals and power plants, 40 to 50 percent of the cost is neither labor nor material. It's everything else that's crept in around it. #bricksbucksandbytes #constructiontech #aec #constructioncosts
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Some construction tech startups aren't solving your problem. They're inventing one and selling it back to you. That's Klas Berghede's blunt read on where some private equity-backed contech bets are headed, chasing a home run instead of a real, felt problem.
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Sound familiar to anyone building or buying in this space. #bricksbucksandbytes #constructiontech #contech #aec
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