If you build it they will come

Behrokh Khoshnevis, and engineering professor, has created a machine that could eventually lead to automated house building. The device extrudes a ribbon of concrete at 5" per second, at which speed a larger planned machine could make a 2,000 square house in just 24 hours. While this machine would only build the walls, Khoshnevis feels that automating electrical and plumbing components would be easy. "Modern robotics can achieve tight tolerances and very high speeds. So having segments of tubing robotically inserted, put atop one another, and welded together as the wall goes up is really a no-brainer."

- The Whole House Machine

[Via. The Red Ferret]