Robots That Move Entire Buildings: The Amazing Video From Shanghai

A movement that can only be seen with an exceptional timelapse, which shows the movements of more than 400 small - "relentless" - robots, basically powerful conveyor belts - which drag an entire building of 7500 tons, from one point to another, in Shanghai .

The technique, the Chinese innovation, consists in the total synchrony between the technological devices that if they did not move in unison, would perhaps unleash a disaster. The engineers have set the maximum daily movement at 10 meters, preferring not to go beyond for reasons related to safety and monitoring of an operation that is complex in any case. The end of the work is scheduled for tomorrow, Saturday 7 June, when the block of buildings - called "Shikumen" - a historical heritage of the city from the 1800s, will finally be in the place designated by the designers.