A Ukrainian robot can print this $64,000 house in just 8 hours
It takes an average of 7.5 months to build a single-family home. A Ukrainian startup has cut that timeframe down to just 8 hours.
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It takes an average of 7.5 months to build a new home. Even the smallest of domiciles — cabins, micro homes — usually take months to construct. But the Ukrainian startup PassivDom has cut that time down to as few as 8 hours by using a 3D-printing robot to print autonomous, mobile homes for $64,000 each.
The robot only prints the walls, floor and roof of the 410-square-foot homes, while human workers later install the windows, doors, plumbing, and electrical systems. Also, the 8-hour timeframe only applies to the company’s most basic model. Still, since its launch in early 2017, PassivDom has already received more than 8,000 preorders for the homes in the U.S. alone.