TEHRAN (ISNA)- An Iranian scientist in South California University has designed a three-dimension printer which makes it possible to build a house only in one day.


Whatever you want could very soon be at your fingertips with 3D printers. Courtesy WSJ.

There are robot vacuum cleaners and robot mops to help us around the house, so why not a robot to build our homes? Wait no longer.

Now there is a nifty tub of electronics to do just that, build a house from scratch, and fast.

Forget weeks to find a builder and months for house construction, a machine developed in the United States can build a 232sq m home layer by layer in a single day.

University of Southern California's Professor Behrokh Khoshnevis has designed the giant robot that replaces construction workers with a nozzle on a gantry, this squirts out concrete and can quickly build a home according to a computer pattern.

It is "basically scaling up 3D printing to the scale of building," Prof Khoshnevis said.

The technology, known as Contour Crafting, could revolutionize the construction industry, he said.

Prof Khoshnevis Contour Crafting could slash the cost of homeowning, making it possible for millions of displaced people to get on the property ladder.

It could even be used in disaster relief areas to build emergency and replacement housing.

As Prof Khoshnevis points out, if you look around you pretty much everything is made automatically these days "your shoes, your clothes, home appliances, your car. The only thing that is still built by hand are these buildings".

The nature of the technology means it will also be possible to create curved walls and

Furthermore, Prof Khoshnevis believes that the technology could be applied beyond our planet.

"Contour Crafting technology has the potential to build safe, reliable, and affordable lunar and Martian structures, habitats, laboratories, and other facilities before the arrival of human beings,' his website reads.

But Prof Khoshnevis says "the reality is that a lot of new jobs can be created in this sector as well (from it)".

So can the Contour Crafting robot move from its research lab environment and into the real world?

"If you can build a wall, you can build a house," says Prof Khoshnevis.

But Contour Crafting was named one of the 25 best inventions in 2006 by the National Inventors Hall of Fame and the History Channel's Modern Marvels program and is still being tested.

By ISNA

 

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