The House Building Machine

thelastguardian writes "With 400,000 American construction workers injured each year, and a typical American house takeing at least six months to complete, house building had been the same tiring gritty job for 20,000 years. For this problem, Behrokh Khoshnevis has a solution: A Robotic House Builder. An eight feet tall and six feet wide phototype house building machine, with ceramic mixing ability/computer control back-end, is currently building solid walls inside University of Southern California. To add to the excitement, even NASA is evaluating the machine as a builder on Moon using moondust- Who said moondust is useless?"

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Re:More identical boxes

[jcr]

This is just what the suburbs needed, more identical boxes.

Of, for crying out loud! Why do moderators mark someone "insightful" when they obviously couldn't be bothered to RTFA?

This machine is like a stereolithography machine that works in concrete. If you don't want an identical box, then use a different design! It will extrude a concrete structure in any shape that the concrete can support.

With this technology, fully custom housing becomes affordable.

-jcr