SAM: One Robot, a Dozen Engineers, and the Race to Revolutionize the Way We Build

A true story of innovation that “reads like a movie” (Seth Godin), centered on a scrappy team of engineers-far from the Silicon Valley limelight-and their quest to revolutionize the traditional trade of masonry by 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 ...