Originally published May 1 2004
Robots could soon help build homes
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
If this new technology pans out, home building robots could soon become
part of the standard home construction process. These robot builders are
more like concrete squirting machines: they circle around and around,
squirting layers of concrete from the ground up to build practically any
shape a person might want. Give it a map and enough concrete, and it
will squirt out the shell of a new home. Then, just move the robot to
the next lot and start again.
A robot for "printing" houses is to be trialled by the construction
industry.
It takes instructions directly from an architect's computerised
drawings and then squirts successive layers of concrete on top of one
other to build up vertical walls and domed roofs.
Now Degussa AG, of D�sseldorf, Germany, the world's largest
manufacturer and supplier of building materials, is to collaborate on
the project to help Khoshnevis find the best kind of building material.
Gerhard Albrecht, head of research at Degussa's speciality materials
subsidiary, Admixture, says the company is ready to develop materials
specifically for the contour crafting technology.
If the technology is successful the robot could enable new designs
that cannot be built using conventional methods, for example involving
complex curving walls.
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