Robo building machine

[capatainnemo]

why does the building look like a cock

[AunShovah]

I could watch it make the same thing all day

[csg8654]

This is the breakthrough in affordable green housing that the building industry has been waiting for! I'd like to see them make a full-size house or apartment building using this Contour Crafting technique. There is another video on youtube that shows the savings in material while creating a very strong structure; voids can be filled with insulating foam after the requisite plumbing lines and electrical, audio, video, internet lines are run I suppose.

Great potential!

[handysmurf210]

Is this in real time

[etmax1]

Infringes on an Australian patent. Looks exactly the same except it's mechanised.

[wirog88]

aaaggh... another charming T machine, Initially they will make extinct the sculptor, then turner, and now they also try to "delete" the construction workers...

like the T850 said "YOU ARE TERMINATED!!!

[kbssaprodussoes]

that material is expensive?????

[MrModernNinja]

@kbssaprodussoes it's fairly cheap since it is usually asb plastic

[skyhacker6]

et ça sert à quoi au juste à part faire des pots en terre cuite ?

[175myles]

They are pretty unique flower pots right there!

[peras3000]

@ConflictGlitchers XD

[eastcoaster54]

they should hook up a mig welding head to it and produce metal parts

[mito0101]

@ConflictGlitchers HAHAHHAHAHA

[AXE2501]

ok, now thats cool as hell

[YTBYlover]

they should get those things in the metal foundrys. get them to "pour" metal when its at its "close to liquid" state

[zippy4u]

The robotic cement layer. Can't wait to see this being deploy. Now you can concentrate on designing the structure instead of learning how to lay bricks and mortar.

[sjb167]

Are things like this for sale yet?

[cooladas]

@sjb167 they are called 3d printers and yes they are for sale if uve got 20,000 dollars laying around....or you can make your own for around 600 dollars google reprap

[sjb167]

@cooladas thanks a lot mate, seems like a project i might want to take up on my free time

[xColdmagx]

It Isn't?

[andras23]

hahhahahaha

[bailey11o]

lol

[seansimayo]

this will be great if i ever need a high tech coookie cutter

[netook8]

In an age of robots, almost everyone would live off a fairly big  "welfare" check and the robots doing all the work. Imagine the depression, would be a good time become a psychologist

[detailairbrushing]

Robots would probably be doing that too! haha

[youWISH8991]

okay fine adn then what happens to all of the real work for architects and builders, mechanics etc etc. I could go on forever. they all get replicated with machines and then what do they do? run the machines? I think not! The only person this helps is really in the long run the engineers of this baby. Think of all of those ppl that would be out of a job??

and you are lying to yourself if you think that this would be used to build homes for ppl in afrca, and many third world countries.

[cooladas]

@youWISH8991 i have a small incling of a feeling that when robots take over all labor jobs and possibly even some intelectual jobs.... the world will become more socialist......at that point humans are inferior to robots.....who provide free labor and never complain. anything the robots will make will either be handed to everyone or horded by the select few who were lucky enough to be rich while the rest of us die in poverty.

[soldhorst]

think on support material to overcome gravity :)

watersoluable?

[Front2422]

a cnc home builder. Wonder if you could use fecal matter like the afro do?

[Sovnarkom]

the afro?

[Front2422]

People in africa make houses out of cow dung. And india too i think.

[roboyurch88]

i'm not sayin this isn't cool, but its making potter!anyone can make pots! put it 2 use! >=O

[Matt1Up]

If you people making retarded comments on here were smart enough to think you would realize the possibilities of something like this being used on a much larger scale to build real structures.

What about 'printing' out structures for shelter in poor countries?

[cageboyes]

nice.. you've got the worlds most sophisticated pottery wheel..

[Sovnarkom]

It's only a model dumb shit. The full size version will construct 30 story buildings in only a day.

[Ba3dadBoy]

The full size model looks like it would be a 30 story building in itself lol

[Stillillgal]

@Ba3dadBoy or it could be the same size and a larger "hole" and maybe it can claim over

[1JOCOQUE]

A DICK........GOOD ONE.

[nartyu854]

its a dick

[mattsox99]

the music is like somebody having really untalented sex in a country music video

[tryplanb]

this is lovemaking music

[OghamTheBold]

Now just find some very rich ants

[TiagoTiagoT]

this is like a 3d prunter, but imnstead of being a printer it is a plotter? Xp

[tritonio]

building what?

[oreo4president]

Wow, are machine's replacing human things one-by-one or what? lol

[sekis9]

how smart you are? my god i ve never noticed that before.

[humiecrusher]

well considering he made a joking comment whereas you provided nothing but a show of arrogance and sarcasm i'd say fairly smart.

[CSSpwndAWP]

very nice quality, i like it, might i ask where i might be able to buy one of these?

[bigboy8706]

impressive

[tsubject12]

where can i buy one?

[paolotonon]

An house plotter

[munacra]

I think this is pretty cool actually and can see the POTENTIAL it has for low income housing as well as emergency shelters and who knows what else...

[rolypolyravioli]

Did, did it draw, did it draw a penis?

[sympgirl]

although this robot could probably make a nice finish job and do a more delicate one too

[2lthintz]

Where do I buy the sound track?

[rgbflawed]

I thought it was gonna be building a robot. :-(

[besnugg]

Motoman in Japan actually has a plant where robots build robots...check out there web-site.

[hajohn]

One thing for sure... it can make a good beer mug...lol

[vanmankline]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't pumping cement into a mold be cheeper? They already make modular styrofoam molds for pouring foundations. It is also posiable to to buy prefabed cement walls for use in comercial buildings. I still think it would be fun/neat to play with big expensive peices of equiptment, but is it cost effective?

[jlatoure]

The song at the beginning of this video is called "Glide." It is included as a demo song in Apple's Garageband software. It is followed by "Daydream," also from the same program.

[michaeldespain]

The Democrats won't like this, it will put all the illegals out of work

[FightLiberalism]

HAHAHAHAHA!

[RomanRealEstate]

well thats not hard to figure out( Doors, Windows, Wires, Pipes). Noticed that it built the wall up in layers... so all you really have to do is is wait for a layer to be complete and go in and install a door frame, or a window. Then tell the program to work around that object. Laying pipes and wires would be the same. Wait for a layer to be done... go in and and lay down your wires and pipes.

[DogzOfWar]

While the video is strangely engrossing, it doesn't really seem like a really viable proof-of-concept. It just does walls, and nothing but walls. I'd like to see a video demonstrating how it's going to handle leaving spaces for ductwork, electrical outlets, piping, and windows.

[Steudl4]

On the science channel they had a documentary involving this machine. In it they mentioned that a larger scale machine could lay down ductowrk, plumbing, wiring, etc. and then throw another layer down as per th blueprints.

[nuvesta]

Anyone know the song at the beginning of this video? Also, while this model may be premature & inadequate compared to people built homes, I'd be surprised if within 20 years that robots weren't regularly building homes.

[xapplimatic]

Great start, but not a mature technology. This is 30 years off.

[B1indSpot]

Not to be crude, but was teh first one making a penis shape?

[petro1986]

there's a problem with all the 'models' that were made, there are no floors, roofs and doors. so this is useless at making houses. much better to get some Romaians in, who will build you a house foe £100...

[namralaks2001]

so this isnt exactly going to do the bricklaying now is it

[lollercopters]

this is funkeh.... house building one to be tested in april i think? build a house in 24hrs i think

[federikoPlus]

is this a prototype ?