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USC's 'print-a-house' construction technology
- ckinnan 18y agoIt's about time. Houses cost too much. I mean, compared to my SUV or my laptop, there's just not that much technology there. And most of the improvements in house-building in recent years seem to just reduce the quality of the structure. Where's the innovation?
- stcredzero 18y agoThe upstream plumbing and wiring could be automated in a 2nd step by adopting a standard for conduit tunnels. Then human supervised robots could quickly thread PEX tubing for the upstream water and wires. Downstream plumbing is always going to take a bit of planning, however.