Robot Built Homes - Replacing Inefficient Humans (Video) (VIDEO)

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Chris Skleryk
On: Jan 15, 07
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In a world where demand is high and most products are automatically produced by robots, it only makes sense that our dwellings follow that trend. Dr. Behrokh Khoshneivis is leading a team at USC who are almost ready to unveil the robot. Costing $1.5M, this robot is designed to build homes with absolutely no human help. The “home-bot” will have minimal limitation in architectural design, “If you ask a bricklayer to lay bricks in anything other than a straight line, you’ll run into problems, but if you ask the robot to make a squiggly line it really doesn’t care.” Using only two materials to construct the house, gypsum and concrete will be sprayed in layers to form floors, walls and roofs. The robots are rigged to a metal frame, enabling them to shuttle in three dimensions and assemble the structure of the house layer by layer. The first prototype will be a watertight shell of a two-storey house built in 24 hours, which will take place in California before April. This is truly revolutionary project and will help thousands of people by increasing production 200-fold and dropping prices to a fifth of what they are today. However if it does go mainstream, it will most likely put many hard working men and women out of a job creating other problems...but at least they won’t be homeless.





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See Taiwan city San Zhi as Guide for this HomeBot Unit. The Unit should Produce Homes Any size, shape, style from Dbase & ArchDbase. Unit should expand or build Prefab Units. IE your own Versaillies Palace from France BUT in LESS acerage or Bruce Wayne manor from TV show Batman in Less acerage & more. Add units to Install wiring, plumbing, insulation, heating, AC & WiFi. Wow. & to assemble Habitat Units for Outer Space- Space Island Group.com or Undersea Units: Posideon Undersea Resorts Crescent Hydropolis. More $$$$. Make robot Mobile by Truck to any site. & produce 200 such Units. Wow.

By: rocketranger on Jan 16, 07 | 0 Trends | 2128 Comments

I want to make a custom home in google sketch, and have this build it for me!!!

By: timthelion on Mar 4, 07 | 0 Trends | 12 Comments

Cool. I'd like to see a full size one made.

By: shat on Mar 15, 07 | 0 Trends | 561 Comments

This automated housing construction unit would normally be misapplied but doesn't this mean we can impose suburb limits of expansion slowly and rebuild inner cities by using the new cost savings to recycle hand torn down houses and inner city buildings giving jobs back to people that are trapped on public assistance programs.

By: lastingvalue on Apr 30, 07 | 0 Trends | 21 Comments



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