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Your phones, shoes, clothes, cars, planes and almost everything man made are made automatically with machines, except for your house and it doesn’t make sense, or does it? Behrokh Khoshnevis at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, who will soon unleash his $1.5m (£940,000) robot, according to him, the ‘robot’ or machine would fabricate the building in a layer by layer fashion – like a layered cake.
Behrokh Khoshnevis claim their machine would build the shell (wall) of a house in 24 hours, an increased in construction speed of 200 fold thus reducing the building cost by a fifth.
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The idea of 3D printing could not possibly be the next big thing in buildings, prefab construction which took the world by storm has yet to make an impact, nothing beats a hand-made house. Personally, I believe all buildings should be constructed with sustainability in mind, not speed. Having said sustainability is an issue, the proposed ‘3d printing’ system does not appears to be environmentally sustainable, huge mechanical system uses ridiculous amount of energy compare to simple manual labor.
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Automate Home Building by Robots
Your car, shoes, clothes and many more are already made automatically by robots, but your house is not! Which doesn’t make any sense at all considering the fact that we are living in the 21st century. Well, that is about to change if Dr. Behrokh Khoshnevis and his team are able to prove that robots are able to replace human in the construction industry. The project cost about $1.5 million, the robot is designed to build a two-story house in 24 hours with zero help from puny humans. Materials? Non other than concrete and gypsum.
By building almost an entire house from just two materials — concrete and gypsum — the robots will eliminate the need for dozens of traditional components, including floorboards, wooden window frames and possibly even wallpaper. It may eventually be possible to use specially treated gypsum instead of glass window panes.
This whole robot thing reminds me of the animated movie – animatrix. It started when the human race invented robots, soon these robots would replace the human as cheap labor in almost every industry, especially the construction industry. The rich get richer by buying more robots as “slaves”… … and soon we humans become lazy, totally helpless without these robots… … a dejavu feeling, it is like the whole American Slavery thing repeating all over again.
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