Dive summary:

• It's not a matter of whether robotics will play a larger role in construction, but how much and in what functions, according to discussion at a recent forum held by Builder Magazine.
• Andrew McAfee, an MIT researcher, said that technology to perform functions now done by people simply will be a fact in home building, not speculation.
• Since 2002, the University of Southern California's Behrokh Khoshnevis, an engineering professor, has been working on a process in which software that can read blueprints guides an arm that uses liquefied concrete to create walls to required dimensions in a sort of concrete 3-D printing.

From the article:

Technology’s unstoppable march forward is taken for granted even by skeptics who don’t foresee a positive outcome. ...