A true story of innovation, centered on a scrappy team of engineers--far from
the Silicon Valley limelight--and their quest to achieve a surprisingly
difficult technological feat: building a robot that can lay bricks. Humans have
landed men on the moon, programmed cars to drive themselves, and put the
knowledge of our entire civilization in your back pocket. But no one--from MIT
nerds to Army Corps engineers--has ever built a robot that can lay bricks as
well as a mason. Unlike the controlled conditions of a factory line, where
robots are now ubiquitous, no two construction sites are alike, and a day's work
involves countless variables--bricks that range