The object
The gantry-based machine extrudes and shapes building material in programmed courses, offering a route to fabricate structures with less manual labor and making additive manufacturing consequential at construction scale. The machine extends additive manufacturing from small prototypes to consequential construction hardware.
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What Behrokh did
Invented Contour Crafting, a robotic construction-scale 3D-printing process.
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Why it matters
USC identifies Contour Crafting as a disruptive technology exhibited in science and technology museums.
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Living-status check
USC's current profile identifies Khoshnevis as professor and inventor of Contour Crafting. Current institutional evidence in 2026.