As you can see in the video after the break, the blocks are laid so quickly that there’s no time for mortar, so they dip the bottom of each block in construction adhesive instead. In the second ...

If you choose to go without mortar ... Remove the wooden planks and you're ready to start laying bricks! Apply the mortar thickly to the concrete base (or, later, the brick below) and press ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In the construction field, laying bricks has always been done through manual labor. Machine manufacturing company Fastbrick Robotics is aiming to change that.

SAM can lay bricks three times faster than a normal brick layer. SAM isn’t planning on taking away any jobs yet though — it still needs a human mason following behind to clean up the mortar.