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Contour Crafting - Extrude-a-House
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."
Lets get the robot unions in place now... After all, non union labor doing construction? I'd imagine the teamsters would have it smashed before it cut out the first window...
Not trolling, just being sarcastic...
--ryan
What, your not happy with the performance of your permanent under-class? Maybe you should threaten to deport their asses and let them work in a Export Processing Zones?
Oh, BTW, if you own ANY home yous hould consider yourself lucky. A $350-400K home? Your fucking rich... maybe you should volunteer to pay your "minimal-wage mexicans" a little more eh?