Robotics for Industrialized Construction | 1001: Intro to Robotics podcast #2 with Aladdin Alwisy

Aladdin Alwisy, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the Rinker School of Construction Management and the director of the Smart Industrialized Design and Construction (IDC) lab at the University of Florida. Dr. Alwaisy’s research interests lie in developing and assessing practices for the future of intelligent industrialized construction, such as robotics, sensing technologies, machine learning, augmented/virtual/mixed reality, simulation, and lean manufacturing to reduce the expense of the design, manufacturing process, and system control.

OUTLINE:0:00 - intro0:46 - Industrialized construction (IC)5:01 - Metrics for IC12:37 - Why increase "made in America" products?19:02 - Construction robotics compared to manufacturing robotics39:37 - Framing with an intelligent robotics arm 56:45 - Academic research and industry applications gap1:05:23 - Impact of advances in fundamental robotics in construction1:12:44 - Human robot collaboration

EPISODE LINKS:Dr. Alwisy's profile: https://dcp.ufl.edu/faculties/aladdin-alwisy/

Lab website: https://sites.google.com/view/smart-idc-lab/home

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