A recorded conversation exploring whether robots (including 3D printers, CNC machines, and humanoid robots) can build homes and displace traditional human framers. Speakers discuss current limitations of 3D-printed houses, engineering complexity of printing workflows, and skepticism that printing will outpace small human crews for framing in the near term.
I would consider, you know, autonomous machines, that, that kind of just. Yeah, I would consider a three, a 3D printer, printer, a CNC, a robot, basically something that cuts metal, you know, in a machine shop. I consider those robots too, basically.
So what point do we get in time where a home can be built entirely by robots or a combination of robots and 3D 3D printers? When does something like this really take over in pop culture? Because we do have a housing crisis in the United States, a lot of parts of the world, so much of it is because the labor, the production of a house really isn't much different than it was a hundred years ago. Other than the cost for the labor.
I'm still betting on the human framers basically at this point in time, again, maybe my humanoid robots will be able to frame a house as fast as humans. But for now, when I still see those 3D printing robots printing, like houses and structures, it takes a significant amount of engineering to actually, you know, get that 3D model and then, and then print it out with whatever material that's available. Basically, by the time Most of those three 3D printed houses are made, a small crew of men with, with enough two by fours and enough wood could frame a house a lot faster, basically. So I'm still sort of skittish on the, on the 3D printing stuff, basically.
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