Interesting Engineering Machines

10 Interesting engineering machines
10 SAM100 Construction Robotics
SAM, short for Semi-Automated Mason, is a brick laying robot designed and engineered by Construction Robotics. SAM100 is the first commercially available bricklaying robot for onsite masonry construction.
Costing around $500,000, SAM isn’t cheap, but it’s a potentially transformative tool in revolutionizing future building sites. SAM is already working on building sites around the U.S. and recently received an upgrade to SAM OS 2.0. which allows it to lay “soldier course” bricks.
“We don’t see construction sites being fully automated for decades, if not centuries,” Podkaminer said. “This is about collaboration between human workers and machines. What SAM does is to pick up the bricks, put mortar on them, and puts it on the wall. It still requires a mason to work alongside it. SAM’s just there to do the heavy lifting.”
9 Ducker Grass Remover
The mow head is swiveled forward and guided by a parallel lead arm. The shifting enables an exact adjustment of the mowing unit, even when the available area is very narrow.
The mow head is equipped with a swash-plate or beetle shaft, which offers a high level of safety against falling stones due to the cutting system and the optimal arrangement of protection and cutting parts. Due to the shifting unit and the special form of the extension arm it is possible to do a second cut beyond the crash guards.
8 Plasser & Theurer
New track laying using the assembly-line method
Plasser & Theurer manufactures railway maintenance machines for all purposes including adjusting and tamping tracks, the installation and maintenance of overhead wires and the associated equipment.
Other products include railway bridge inspection and repair vehicles and flash-butt welding machines.
7 BRIDGE INSPECTION MACHINE
This versatile machine is truck mounted with a hydraulic access platform designed to provide a safe, quick and cost effective method of accessing the underside surfaces of bridge, jetty and wharf structures for inspection, maintenance and other essential remediation works.
6 TBM Tunnel Boring Machine
A tunnel boring machine (TBM), also known as a "mole", is a machine used to excavate tunnels with a circular cross section through a variety of soil and rock strata. They may also be used for microtunneling.
They can bore through anything from hard rock to sand. Tunnel diameters can range from a metre (done with micro-TBMs) to 19.25 metres to date. Tunnels of less than a metre or so in diameter are typically done using trenchless construction methods or horizontal directional drilling rather than TBMs.
5 DYNASET HPW DUST
High-pressure dust suppression system ensures dust-free sweeping and low water consumption.
Turning side brushes guarantee excellent cleaning result, do not leave upswept stripes in turnings and and increase the cleaning width.
All functions of the collecting sweepers can be used hydraulically, including lifting, lowering and stopping of side brushes that can be used without leaving the cabin.
4 ROAD ZIPPER
The Road Zipper System is designed to cost effectively increase capacity and reduce congestion by making more efficient use of new or existing roadways.
This technology is used for managed lanes and construction applications to create safe, dynamic highways that offer real-time roadway reconfiguration while maintaining positive barrier protection between lanes.
3 Airport crash tender
Airport crash tenders are extremely powerful machines. They offer relatively good acceleration for their size and weight, are able to negotiate rough terrain outside the airport area, carry large capacities of water and fire fighting foam, are fitted with powerful high-capacity pumps and water/foam cannons, and are capable of delivering firefighting media over long distances.
They can be mounted on 4x4, 6x6, or even 8x8 wheeled chassis. In order to decrease their turning radius, the 8x8 wheeled unit may have all four front wheels steerable.
2 Snowplough
A snowplow (also snow plow, snowplough or snow plough) is a device intended for mounting on a vehicle, used for removing snow and ice from outdoor surfaces, typically those serving transportation purposes.
Although this term is often used to refer to vehicles mounting such devices, more accurately they are known as winter service vehicles, especially in areas that regularly receive large amounts of snow every year, or in specific environments such as airfields.
In other cases, pickup trucks and front end loaders are outfitted with attachments to fulfill this purpose. Some regions that do not frequently see snow may use graders to remove compacted snow and ice off the streets. Snowplows can also be mounted on rail cars or locomotives to clear railway tracks.
1 Komatsu Forest Machines
Brandeis Machinery & Supply Company unveiled its newest offering for forestry customers when it demo’d a customized Komatsu D39EX-23 dozer last fall.

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