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And yet, almost no houses at all are 3D printed. People are very good at bricklaying, and are paid a reasonable rate by the hour. No one has made a machine tha
by robotresearcher 5y ago
And yet, almost no houses at all are 3D printed.
People are very good at bricklaying, and are paid a reasonable rate by the hour. No one has made a machine that can beat that feature set.
edit: more great features of human brickies that robots are terrible at: very small working volume; very small and agile footprint; safe for other humans to work near; half-day built-in power supply.
- yarg 5y agoWhich is still infinitely more than 30 years ago.
- ianbicking 5y agoAre there buildings that aren't demonstrations that are being printed? There's always been demonstration homes and buildings using novel techniques, and that's no indication that the technique will go anywhere.
- brianwawok 5y agoMost people don’t buy brick houses. They buy vinyl siding which is 1/5 the cost of bricks and bricklaying.
- wil421 5y agoThat’s not the case in my area. Lots of homes are wood framed and 3 sided brick with vinyl in the rear.
- brianwawok 5y agoDepends on price for sure. In Chicago where a new single family home is 1.5 million dollars, better believe its brick. Where I live in Indiana an average single family home is like 200k. No one is paying 50k for brick on that, so vinyl siding you go.
- Clewza313 5y agoIn the US, perhaps, but brick construction still predominates in many countries including much of Africa, the Middle East and India. Not coincidentally, all three also have limited supplies of timber.
- pessimizer 5y ago> And yet, almost no houses at all are 3D printed. It's brand new, give it a minute.