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Remote-controlled electric demolition robot for medium to large breaking and crushing jobs
- 3
- Deployments
- 2
- Companies that ran it
How it works on your site
The Brokk 500 is a 5,200 kg tracked, mains-electric demolition robot that the operator drives by remote control. It breaks concrete with a breaker or crusher in structural demolition, strips interiors for soft-strip and selective salvage, and sorts material with grapples or a bucket. Brokk unveiled the 500 at CONEXPO in March 2017 as the successor to the Brokk 400 and still lists it among its products; its own successor, the Brokk 500+, followed in January 2024 and takes its place in Brokk's compare-models table.
Material Sorting & Segregation
A clamshell bucket, multi-purpose grapple or sorting/demolition grapple lets the operator load, sort and separate demolition debris from the remote. Brokk also lists metal shears for the 500 for cutting steel.
Soft-Strip / Selective Salvage
Brokk fits the 500 with a sorting/demolition grapple or a multi-purpose grapple for soft demolition, pulling out structures inside buildings while the operator works the SmartRemote from a distance.
Structural Demolition
The operator drives the 500 to the work face and runs a hydraulic breaker or a concrete crusher from the SmartRemote, away from the breaking. Brokk pairs the 500 with the BHB 705 breaker, states that it takes every Brokk 400 attachment, and shows a CC700 concrete crusher on its Brokk 500 product sheet; Brokk markets crushers for demolition with less noise, dust and vibration.
Who has run it
3 deployments · 2 companies · 3 countries
Will it work on your site
- Sustained throughput
- About 800 m3 in about 100 hoursOne pillar job; operator account published by Brokk
- Power source
- Tethered electric mains, 41 kW ABB motor63 A fuse, 400 V/50 Hz or 440 V/60 Hz
- Control interface
- SmartRemote portable controllerRadio up to 300 m, or cable
- BIM/CAD requirements
- None stated by BrokkBrokk's product page names no BIM or CAD input
- Operating weight
- 5,200 kg (11,464 lb) machine weightRecommended attachment weight up to 700 kg
As the maker states it.
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