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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. Think of the Children by RobertTaylor · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm pretty jazzed at the potential...

    You dirty pervert.

    Jonty! Neil! Work!!

  2. The most crooked liars: +1, True by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    are "President" George W. Bush and President-Vice (how appropriate) Richard B. Cheney

    As evidence, please visit Most Thrilling Impeached

    Very truly yours,
    Kilgore Trout

  3. Frank Lloyd Wright by maggard · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    no six foot long paintings hung on a curved wall
    D'oh! Who forgot to tell Frank Lloyd Wright in time?!

    btw In museum circles horror stories of unsuitable trophy buildings like this are legion.

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