Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Robo-builder threatens the brickie - The [London] Times
...Engineers are racing to unveil the world’s first robot capable of building a house at the touch of a button...

...robots will not only cut costs and avoid human delays but liberate the normal family homes from the conventional designs of pitched roofs, right-angled walls and rectangular windows.

“The architectural options will explode,” predicted Dr Behrokh Khoshnevis at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, who will soon unleash his $1.5m (£940,000) robot. “We will be able to build curves and domes as easily as straight walls...

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