Block paving (also known as brick paving) is an alternative to an asphalt road. It's typically used for aesthetic purposes on roads where traffic is relatively slow. Unfortunately, the process of laying these roads is manually intensive and can by quite harsh on one's back and knees. Dutch company Vanku sought to address this issue with their Tiger Stone brick-laying machine.
The Tiger Stone is not automatic and still requires workers to 'feed' the bricks, however their position is now upright and the actual laying of bricks is much more efficient, with the company claiming a team can lay about 300 square meters (3,230 sq ft) of brick road a day.
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