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The House Building Machine

Posted by Zonk on from the free-samples? dept.

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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  1. Dupe by super+awesome · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Dupe???

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    m y k a r m a i s m o r e p o s i t i v e t h a n y o u r s.
  2. Re:This is new? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ?????? = Create robots on the Moon that fly down to Earth and enslave all of humanity, bringing them back to the Moon Prison. Then mine the resources on Earth without resistance.