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A robot can print this $64,000 house in as few as 8 hours — take a look inside
Building a house by hand can be both time-consuming and expensive. Some homebuilders have chosen to automate part of the construction instead. A new Ukrainian homebuilding startup called PassivDom uses a 3D printing robot that can print parts for tiny houses. The machine can print the walls, roof, and floor of PassivDom's 410-square-foot model in about eight hours. The windows, doors, plumbing, and electrical systems are then added by a human worker.
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Yeah and even at 100,000 dollars, they aren't going to be affordable to those people. Nothing will change here except that middle-class people will have a better option and that means that big construction is going to fight this tech from coming to a neighborhood near you.
Hopefully in the future, if we can make enough of these, the cheaper and earlier versions can be given to charity and used to build homes for people. I already wrote a few articles on this but it's actually more efficient to use a recycling method for plastic to build bricks and then donate them to charities to build cheaper homes.