Comments on: Robot Built Houses? http://toolmonger.com/2007/01/22/robot-built-houses/ All tools. All the time. Your source for news, information, and reviews of hand tools, power tools, and tools of all kinds. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:37:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Daniel Rutter http://toolmonger.com/2007/01/22/robot-built-houses/#comment-15582 Daniel Rutter Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:48:20 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2007/01/22/robot-built-houses/#comment-15582 And, of course, you already <i>can</i> buy houses that're "made automatically"; there are lots of very good pre-fab house designs these days, though they still have the stigma of the awful jumped-up trailers of yesteryear. It also makes <i>perfect</i> sense that very large and complex things cannot be "made automatically". If you want the sort of house that cannot be trucked around in big prefabricated pieces, then it must by definition be assembled on site. And, as with other things that're assembled on site, it's easier to use lots of people to do the job than some machine that's unlikely to be easier to move around than the houses it makes. There's no rule of the universe that says that a house-building machine can't exist, but this thing's a long, long way away from it. A house is not just walls. And, of course, you already can buy houses that’re “made automatically”; there are lots of very good pre-fab house designs these days, though they still have the stigma of the awful jumped-up trailers of yesteryear.

It also makes perfect sense that very large and complex things cannot be “made automatically”. If you want the sort of house that cannot be trucked around in big prefabricated pieces, then it must by definition be assembled on site. And, as with other things that’re assembled on site, it’s easier to use lots of people to do the job than some machine that’s unlikely to be easier to move around than the houses it makes.

There’s no rule of the universe that says that a house-building machine can’t exist, but this thing’s a long, long way away from it. A house is not just walls.

]]> By: Trevor D. http://toolmonger.com/2007/01/22/robot-built-houses/#comment-15493 Trevor D. Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:51:06 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2007/01/22/robot-built-houses/#comment-15493 Cool idea, but I wonder what the costs would look like to build a house with this tech as opposed to traditional techniques, and how many people would be out of work? Cool idea, but I wonder what the costs would look like to build a house with this tech as opposed to traditional techniques, and how many people would be out of work?

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