An example of robotic brick laying going on at the university of Southern Denmark. Construction is an industry in which there is certainly a need for improved automation. If you take a longer term view and are concerned about construction of habitations in space or on other planets then fully automating the construction process is an essential prerequisite - although it's quite unlikely that moon bases will be made out of bricks.
This isn't a bad attempt, and presumably the robot is doing detailed localisation using the checkerboard patterns which wouldn't be unreasonable in a construction scenario. If the bricks have a distinctive surface pattern to them then there probably isn't any need for the additional checkerboard on each of them.
Brick laying could be streamlined using a less general purpose robot. If a large Cartesian robot was used, which had a spring loaded mechanism similar to the one used in staplers for delivering the bricks then the construction process could be much faster.
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