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Bricklayers’ perspectives on human-robot collaboration (HRC) in on-site masonry construction: opportunities, challenges, and considerations

PUBLICATION DATE: 11 November, 2025 PUBLICATION AUTHOR/S: Anthony Paul Franzè Corresponding Author; Müge Belek Fialho Teixeira; Glenda Caldwell; Jacob Dawson; Gabriela Isabel Valdez Mena; Hamid Reza Rafizadeh; Tim Schork; Lloyd Gainey; Maja Caballero; Tatheer Zahra

The Australian construction sector is experiencing historically low productivity rates, labour shortages and increased building costs. In bricklaying, highly automated industrial robotic solutions have not alleviated these challenges. Recent advances raise the opportunity for less costly, modular and safer collaborative robots (cobots) extended through augmented reality (AR). This study aims to understand bricklayers’ perspectives on working with cobots and AR; identify the opportunities and challenges for cobot integration on-site; and identify key considerations for on-site human–robot collaboration (HRC).

RELATED PROGRAM/S:
Designing Socio-technical Robotic Systems Program based at QUT Publication link

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