Happy Tuesd… wait.

It can’t be.

Drop everything.

He’s evolved.

Spot the robot construction dog has a new arm.

Our regularly scheduled Buildr Newsletter just turned into a running diary of

—

- Not one to beat around the bush, BD starts the video without so much as a fade-in, opting instead to throw us into the boiling vat of realization: Spot's got an arm.

- With Spot’s new superpower, we can finally unwind a little in our cozy Waltham, MA homes, leaving our undergarments just strewn about here and there. Every pair of underwear that Spot picks up chips away at that $70k we spent on the little guy.

- They’re going to keep that foosball table visible in-frame and not have Spot drop the ball into play, if not fully participate in a round? Has to be a tease for the sequel video.

- Oh... Spot can jump rope now. That guy in the black puffer jacket doesn’t even care. Maybe they do this all the time and he’s bored of it?

- Okay good, someone’s paying attention.

- Like how humans watch humans on TV, Spot with an arm watches Spot with an arm on TV. With so little content available, all that’s on is that underwear pick-up show.

- Remember the chills you got when the raptors figured out how to open doors in

?

- Spot has new hobbies: gardening!

- And CrossFit!

- Spot has perfect bird’s-eye-view penmanship. If Tom Hanks’ character in

sees this Spot video, he’s looking at his Wilson ball on the shelf and saying: “We could’ve really used Spot back on the island, huh?”

From

, check out the

of Spot’s newest evolution and how one small arm for Spot is one giant leap for construction.

From

, watch a robot dog

.

From

, the

to mark on your calendar.

Also from

, Buildr’s Simon Ooley discusses why

. Did you know construction accounts for just 10% of a project’s lifetime cost?

From

, listen to Buildr co-founder Caleb Taylor as he joins host Rahul Faria to chat about automating closeout and

. Sadly, it’s audio only so Caleb’s celebrity Zoom background dog Zeke is there only in spirit.

From

, a slight throwback, but watch

featuring newly appointed Construction Progress Coalition AEC Delegate/Member and Big-D Implementation and Adoption Manager Nichole Carter when she joined a murderers’ row panel of ConTech “dorkettes” to discuss mentorship, advocacy, technology adoption, COVID-19, and the future of construction (and they’re sippin’).

From

, the 2021

. AECOM, Jacobs, and Quanta Services take the top 3 spots in construction/engineering.

From

, the

that not only survived but

in 2020.

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