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Yeah, you could commute from here to Rotterdam.
I think it's like 25 minutes to Rotterdam from here.
Salah Alfaji is showing me around a property development in the Netherlands.
At first glance, it looks like a typical building site.
There are buckets and wheelbarrows, the noise of drills and brick cutting and tinny music.
But at a closer look, there's something unusual.
Dotted around the site are teams of bricklayers who don't need brakes,
banter or a blast of Britney Spears.
And our robots are basically a set, like we call them,
like a mini team of like three robots working together.
Alfaji is the co-founder of a startup called Monumental.
If you listen to our episode on innovation,
you'll know that Alfaji founded his company to shake up construction,
an industry bedeviled by low productivity growth and labor shortages.
Monumental solution is AI powered automation or bricklaying robots.
The one in the middle is the main one, which is like two tiny tower cranes.