These construction robots work 8x faster than human crews – From home-building micro-factories to wall-building excavators, robotic construction workers are coming on strong.

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While they’re not quite ready to replace their human worker overlords quite yet, construction robots sure do like showing off their chops – especially how fast they can get things done. Just last year, robotics company FBR revealed its Hadrian X autonomous brick-laying truck that could stack and glue 500 masonry blocks per hour, potentially building the walls of a house in just a day. We also saw an onsite 3D printer that could spit out a starter house in only 18 hours, as well as a robotic house builder that could shoot out blobs of clay at speeds of up to 10 meters (32.8) feet per second.

San Francisco-based company Civ Robotics is also aiming to bring speedy bots to the construction site, but its focus is on the pre-construction phase of the process. The company makes a robot called the CivDot that can be dispatched at a construction site to mark out the parameters of the build, which it can do eight times faster than human surveyors.