[HN Gopher] Robots move Shanghai city block [video]
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       Robots move Shanghai city block [video]
        
       Author : surprisetalk
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2025-07-03 14:02 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | selimnairb wrote:
       | This title is misleading. It makes it seem like the robots did
       | this autonomously, when in reality hundreds if workers were
       | involved. The "robots" were "smart jacks" I would say. Humans
       | couldn't have done this without hydraulic jacks, they used fancy
       | hydraulic jacks.
        
       | bmmayer1 wrote:
       | This is incredible -- serious question -- has anything of this
       | scale been done in the US or Europe? Do we even have the
       | technology?
        
         | mmsc wrote:
         | Yes, it has been common enough, no "robots" required. The
         | Indiana Bell Building is a famous one from a century ago, which
         | gets videos posted about it on social media ever so often.
        
         | janfoeh wrote:
         | Here is the Kaisersaal in Berlin being moved on air cushions in
         | 1996 [1]. And wasn't a better part of Chicago jacked up
         | building by building some time in the 19th century to make room
         | for a sewage system?
         | 
         | [1] https://www.bz-berlin.de/archiv-artikel/hier-schwebt-ein-
         | den...
        
         | crooked-v wrote:
         | Check out the raising of Chicago
         | (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago). From
         | buildings up to entire city blocks were raised, moved on
         | rollers, or both, usually while businesses and residents stayed
         | in them for normal day-to-day life.
        
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