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Contour Crafting - Extrude-a-House

Posted by michael on from the just-mix-and-pour dept.

lww writes "An article in New Scientist discusses the work of Behrokh Khoshnevis at the University of Southern California to design and build a fully automated robot that performs Contour Crafting, his name for a process to extrude successive layers of semi-fluid building mixtures like concrete to create entire structures. In the article, he says 'The goal is to be able to completely construct a one-story, 2000-square foot home on site, in one day and without using human hands.' by 2005. I'm pretty jazzed at the potential to construct buildings with highly curved/creative contours that would be impossible using current construction techniques."

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  1. Because were running short by dnoyeb · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Because were running short of those fragile humans...

  2. Putting people out of work by raider_red · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    No fair! This is going to put all the illegal aliens out of work in Texas and California. We can't have that now, can we?

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