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MIT Creates 3D-Printing Robot That Can Construct a Home Off-Grid In 14 Hours (mit.edu)
Kristine Lofgren writes: Home building hasn't changed much over the years, but leave it to MIT to take things to the next level. A new technology built at MIT can construct a simple dome structure in 14 hours and it's powered by solar panels, so you can take it to remote areas. MIT's 3D-printing robot can construct the entire basic structure of a building and can be customized to fit the local terrain in ways that traditional methods can't do. It even has a built-in scoop so it can prepare the building site and gather its own construction materials. You can watch a video of the 3D-printing robot in action here.
The best thing about technological progress is that a herd of morons who've never had a useful thought in their lives, who meander about and graze on whatever slop is thrust into their troughs, gets to voice their disdain for the achievements of people expanding the boundaries of human knowledge and achievement in sciences and the useful arts.
If your first thought was "but it doesn't have a roof", then you are useless and should consider a career in management. You lack the intelligence, creativity and experience to appreciate progress and this is a prerequisite, maybe the only prerequisite, for creating technology.