Theresa Arevalo was in high school when she first tried finishing drywall at her brother’s construction company. “It’s a fine art,” she says of mudding—applying and smoothing drywall. “Like frosting a cake, you have to give the illusion that the wall is flat.”
Canvas' robot can apply finishes to drywall.Courtesy of Canvas
Robots Invade the Construction Site
Boosted by advances in sensors and artificial intelligence, a new generation of machines is automating a tech-averse industry.
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