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Advanced Manufacturing Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Behrokh Khoshnevis, USC

Talk Title: Robotic Construction by Contour Crafting -“ Future Impacts on Earth and Beyond

Abstract: The nature of construction has remained intensely manual throughout recorded history. Unlike in
manufacturing, the growth of automation in construction has been slow. A promising new automation approach
is construction scale 3D printing, which has been pioneered by the speaker with the invention of Contour
Crafting, a hybrid technology combining concrete 3D printing and a variety of robotics fabrication and
assembly tasks with the aim of automating the entire construction activity. The technology also has astounding
environmental and energy impact potentials. The entry level implication is especially profound for emergency
shelter construction and low-income housing. Exploring possible applications of CC in building on other
planets has also been pursued by the speaker through several projects supported by NASA. This new mode of
construction will be one of the very few feasible approaches for building using insitu material on planets such
as the Moon and Mars, which are being targeted for human colonization before the end of the century.

Biography: Behrokh Berok Khoshnevis has numerous inventions and over 100 US
and international patents as well as nearly 200 refereed technical publications. He is a
member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the National Academy of
Inventors inductee, a Fellow of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, a Fellow of the
Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering, a Fellow of the Society for Computer
Simulation and a NASA Innovative Advanced Concept Fellow. Because of his Contour
Crafting invention he received the 2014 Grand Prize among 1000 plus globally competing
technologies in the Create the Future design contest which was organized by NASA.
Contour Crafting was selected earlier as one of the top 25 out of more than 4000
candidate inventions by the History Channel Modern Marvels program and the National
Inventors Hall of Fame. The technology has been exhibited in numerous science and technology and art
museums around the world.

Host: Center for Advanced Manufacturing

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Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Tessa Yao

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