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- prkchpsndwiches, on 09/06/2008, -2/+14This has so many endless possibilities. Really neat idea.
- carnagejoe, on 09/07/2008, -2/+13Will the construction worker robot make rude comments at attractive fembots as they pass by?
- NSResponder, on 09/07/2008, -1/+10"Broken window fallacy" Look it up, sunshine.
If people like you had their way, we'd still all be subsistence farmers.
-jcr - oneredeye, on 09/07/2008, -0/+8If the workers are out of work because of robots, than who operates the robots? This just raises the education bar for the industry which is a GOOD thing.
- GlassAgate, on 09/07/2008, -0/+6Next, there will be robot lawyers who take the worker robots
to court to file sexual harassment charges. The judge will also
be a robot. The won't speak in English. They'll run the case through
a super computer. The trial will all be over with in a matter of minutes.
The punishment: the guilty shall have his software downgraded for
two weeks. - Armorfist, on 09/07/2008, -1/+6Command & Conquer anyone?
- eze123, on 09/06/2008, -4/+9First car manufacturers are out of work because of robots and now construction workers will be next.
- brawltimore, on 09/07/2008, -0/+4what else would you use to kill the robots with?
- inactive, on 09/07/2008, -0/+4I'm not going to give away my hammers and drills just yet.
- bluebirdgm, on 09/07/2008, -0/+4I'd love to see what happens with the Building Printer's equivalent of a paper jam.
- sanman, on 09/07/2008, -0/+3With software and robotics, you could achieve incredibly complicated geometries that regular human builders would find problematic or very costly to do. The old neighborhood could end up looking pretty weird as a result, though. ;)
Take a look at ZPrinter 450, which does the same thing for printing small 3D models:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps0WEZbDjHE - inactive, on 09/07/2008, -0/+3would making them divide by zero the death penalty?
- JBSpeed88, on 09/07/2008, -0/+3I can't seeing it doing anything horribly complex at this point, but it does have potential for a easy way to build cheap and inexpensive basic housing in the third world nations of the world.
- penguin42, on 09/07/2008, -0/+3Hmm that's neat; however I'd worry about it for large scale construction - I can't see how you add the steel reenforcements.
I can see that you can leave holes etc for pipes - but not stuff actually embedded in the concrete; the inside of the wall also needs some work to get it smooth.
Still, it must do great plant pots. - Culyt, on 09/08/2008, -0/+2Except it doesn't, or at least not much.
You only need 1 operator, maybe a few maintenance people, mostly for putting the robot together and ensuring it has a feed of the stuff it makes building with. Building normally takes dozens of people. You will still need electricians to run the wire around and plumbers etc (at least for now, in theory it could print plastic pipes of just make them out of tunnels in the walls). People have to put in the sinks, light sockets etc...
Also many people who become construction workers didn't have much chance at getting a decent education anyway, being a builder isn't exactly a job most people pick. Hopefully with more of this happening a decent education will be easier to get (other technologies like the internet and future stuff like VR and whatnot can step in) and maybe the government will help ensure eduction is easy to get to keep the employment rate up.
Doesn't solve the problem for people who are just idiots and can't learn higher level stuff, but hopefully they will have less children and evolution will take care of that, I don't know how much stupidity is genetic and how much is upbringing.
☢ - minorgods, on 09/07/2008, -0/+2or a virus that embeds dirty words onto a bathroom wall :)
- DragonForce4, on 09/08/2008, -0/+2because you can't spell
- caseycoold, on 09/07/2008, -0/+2You posted a comment why?
- zippy757, on 09/07/2008, -1/+3Neat...similar to what they use today to build curbs on highways etc ..
http://www.gomaco.com - igul222, on 09/07/2008, -0/+2Video: http://tinyurl.com/6fhggo
- AgmLauncher, on 09/07/2008, -0/+2You missed it.
People in this topic are talking about machines replacing workers, which is precisely what the John Henry story is about. - dsmx, on 09/07/2008, -1/+2I can make a giant lego house with it.
- oneredeye, on 09/07/2008, -1/+2What does laying rail have to do with building houses?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_(folklore) - AgmLauncher, on 09/07/2008, -1/+2I bet John Henry has something to say about this.
- digitalhippie, on 09/07/2008, -1/+2We still have a long way to go before this is possible. But I'm hopeful.
- dacheetah, on 09/08/2008, -0/+1I know it's troll-like, but in the case of Vista, a "downgrade" to XP wouldn't really be a punishment...
- GlassAgate, on 09/08/2008, -0/+1If that isn't punishment, I don't know what would be.
- gotrootdude, on 09/08/2008, -0/+1
This would be interesting if.....
People weren't discussing how easy it'd be to make with the right money resources like over 20 years ago.
Why does everything take soooo long to get to market. - minorgods, on 09/07/2008, -0/+1They used the iWeb website printing robot
- iillthe2nd, on 09/13/2008, -0/+1That building would take a blocking crew of 10 laborers 1 day to make. That is going to hard to beat cost wise. I would rather have a house built with ACS by someone like aercon http://www.designbuild-network.com/contractors/con ... It would be much stronger, but you have to live fairly close to a plant.
- iceman35, on 09/07/2008, -1/+1this will put a lot of people out of jobs
- Yittrium39, on 09/07/2008, -0/+0http://www.isi.edu/craft/CC/Welcome_files/resource ... -- build your own stairs!
- aloyeo, on 09/07/2008, -0/+0I dunno.....the site looks like it's done in 30 min, and uses frames, in a really bad way....and is titled "Untitled Document"
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gooo gooo gaaa gaaaa. *Dangles novelty in front of digger* ::digger claps and drools in excitement:: - inactive, on 09/07/2008, -9/+1right...endless possibilities to put people out of jobs. Neat ideas usually are catch22's.
- inactive, on 09/07/2008, -9/+1Right because fallacies dictate real life world conditions.
What about the black and white fallacy? "People like me had it their way". I would be at burger king, biatch. -
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