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A Printer That Can Build a House in 20 Hours

via theAtlanticCities:

Behrokh Khoshnevis, a professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California, has spent the last 15 years working on a machine that will “print” buildings. He’s still working on it, but in the TedTalk video below, you can see the prototype at work. Various nozzles and robots slide around on a giant grid of mobile bars and rails, mixing cement, laying electrical wire, and installing rebar. He calls the practice Contour Crafting.

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Source: theatlanticcities.com

5 August 164 emergentfutures

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    It shouldn’t take that long to print a tiny New York City apartment…

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    the means of production are slowly coming back to the people.

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