Ambermichelle wrote in with a link to a story about the fortuity that the home of the future might be printed instead of built. "It can take all over from six weeks to six months to build a 2,800-square-foot, two-story house in the U.S., mostly because human beings do all the work. Within the next five years, chances are that 3D third edition by the editors of the american heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 (also known by the less catchy but more inclusive term additive manufacturing) will have become so tolerant




if (lexico_globals.googleafc.ads.content.length)
{
document.write(lexico_globals.googleafc.ads.contenttop);
document.write(lexico_globals.googleafc.ads.sponsoredlinks);
document.write(lexico_globals.googleafc.ads.content[4]);
document.write(" that we will be able to upload design specifications to a massive robot, press print, and watch as it spits out a third edition by the editors of the american heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 house in less than a day. Plenty of humans will be there, but just to ogle. Minimizing the time and cost that goes into creating shelters will enable aid workers to address the needs of people in desperate situations. This, at least, is what Behrokh Khoshnevis, a lecturer of social work and skipper* of the Center for Rapid Automated Fabrication Technologies, or CRAFT, at the teaching hospital of Southern California, hopes will come of his inventions."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

More: - Read the rest here