In a world first, a residential home in Russia has been 3D-printed onsite with a mobile printer.
It took only 24 hours and costs $10,134.
Apis Cotr, the 3D printing specialists company based in Russia and San Francisco behind the construction, uses a mobile printer to print their homes on-site, which differs from other methods that usually involve printing separate parts off-site and constructing later.
The company’s mission is to help financially disadvantaged people around the world improve their living conditions by offering quick and affordable constriction methods at a high-quality standard.
As the video above shows, the 3D printer disrupts traditional building practices. The lack of human input on-site, might have you tradies reading this worried about where you’ll fit into a future of automated construction. But from this first build, it looks like there’s no machine solution for exterior painting and internal plumbing just yet.
Once the house has been completed, the printer is removed with a crane-manipulator, before the roof and interior fixtures and fittings are added (by people).
Its inventor, and company founder, Nikita Chen-yun-tai has said on the Apis Cor website he hopes “building a house will be as easy as pressing a “like” button” in the future.