With the fast-developing 3D printing technology, we are now able to construct houses much faster and cheaper. But is that enough to tackle the ongoing housing shortage? Across the whole Western world, ...

The first 3D printed homes built by robots in Yuba county, California. - 4Dify When we envision robots used to build things, our minds might turn to those types used on automotive assembly lines or ...

On a dusty test site in Australia, a spider-like robot is quietly rewriting the rules of construction, extruding walls in looping arcs instead of stacking bricks by hand. The same technology that lets ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Contec Australia’s 3D-printing robot completed the structural walls of this two-storey home in just 18 hours, a speed unmatched by ...

A new era of home construction in Nome, Alaska, has begun with its first occupied 3D-printed house. This innovative project was a robot-constructed, three-bedroom home built in layers. Its technology ...

The idea of 3D printing an entire house sounds like something that you only find in movies or video games, since having a massive robot squeezing out concrete layer by layer to build a house from ...

On the University of Maine campus, a 50,000-square-foot factory is in the works where massive robotic arms, supervised by drones, will assemble 3D-printed houses, boats, and more. It sounds like ...

A robot is using additive manufacturing technology to print houses. Just a few years ago, that thought would seem ludicrous. Yet 3D printing in construction by robots has become a regular feature in ...

The fundamental way most homes are built in America — the labor-intensive process of constructing conventional wood framing on site — hasn’t changed much for more than a century, even though more ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (WGHP) — If you wanted a robot to do mundane ...

If you want to work with robots you can do all sorts of learning with software and simulation, but nothing quite beats getting to grips with real machinery. That was the motivation for [James ...