So they've already built dams with the system partially. They were able to build a dam at twice the speed and quality (and far less accidents) on previous tries so the party was like 'fuck it do it all this time its way better'. For example, one dam nearly the same size and material as the Three Gorges dam only took 4 years to build versus the norm of 9-10 years.
I dug into it really hard last time it was posted. The tech is phenomenal and really well made and innovative. Its unsurprising to me that they're doing it full blown now. China considers stuff like dams and nuclear plants to be of the highest priority so they threw all their funds at it. Theres even plans to use it on nuclear plants to speed up construction without sacrificing quality. So the so often quoted 'ten year' build speed for nuclear plants will be closer to 2-4 years provided this project goes well.
The biggest innovations/improvements of this system over manual labor are that human labor had huge slowdowns on the logistics side a lot of times, but the centralized planning structure of the CPC greatly speeds things up when they can simply tell the robots to pick something up at A and drop it off at B. There were apparently many times where humans would put stuff in the wrong spots and it would completely fuck up the speed of construction by years because of how many human errors build up over time even with experienced professionals.
edit: it should also be noted that while all/most the work is automated, they have a bunch of lookout people that reverify the visual situation for robots just in case their optics or mechanics are fucked up. it should be noted that this is the more expensive way of doing things, but it happens faster and with higher quality. which for socialist construction, is incredibly important.
Of course, when the capitalist media reported on the partially automated dams, they moaned about how quick construction was and how unsafe it would be without any evidence that there are issues
So they've already built dams with the system partially. They were able to build a dam at twice the speed and quality (and far less accidents) on previous tries so the party was like 'fuck it do it all this time its way better'. For example, one dam nearly the same size and material as the Three Gorges dam only took 4 years to build versus the norm of 9-10 years.
I dug into it really hard last time it was posted. The tech is phenomenal and really well made and innovative. Its unsurprising to me that they're doing it full blown now. China considers stuff like dams and nuclear plants to be of the highest priority so they threw all their funds at it. Theres even plans to use it on nuclear plants to speed up construction without sacrificing quality. So the so often quoted 'ten year' build speed for nuclear plants will be closer to 2-4 years provided this project goes well.
The biggest innovations/improvements of this system over manual labor are that human labor had huge slowdowns on the logistics side a lot of times, but the centralized planning structure of the CPC greatly speeds things up when they can simply tell the robots to pick something up at A and drop it off at B. There were apparently many times where humans would put stuff in the wrong spots and it would completely fuck up the speed of construction by years because of how many human errors build up over time even with experienced professionals.
edit: it should also be noted that while all/most the work is automated, they have a bunch of lookout people that reverify the visual situation for robots just in case their optics or mechanics are fucked up. it should be noted that this is the more expensive way of doing things, but it happens faster and with higher quality. which for socialist construction, is incredibly important.
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Of course, when the capitalist media reported on the partially automated dams, they moaned about how quick construction was and how unsafe it would be without any evidence that there are issues
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