A Robot Can Print This $64,000 House In as Few as 8 Hours

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A new Ukrainian homebuilding startup called PassivDom uses a 3D printing robot that can print parts for tiny houses. The machine can print the walls, roof, and floor of PassivDom's 410-square-foot model in about eight hours. The windows, doors, plumbing, and electrical systems are then added by a human worker.

When complete, the homes are autonomous and mobile, meaning they don't need to connect to external electrical and plumbing systems. Solar energy is stored in a battery connected to the houses, and water is collected and filtered from humidity in the air (or you can pour water into the system yourself). The houses also feature independent sewage systems.
 
Semantics said:
Tiny ass house for 64 grand, i assume that doesn't include land cost
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Ocellaris said:
$64,000 for a tiny 410 sq ft house isn’t affordable.
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Due to the features of the house making it self-sufficient, $64,000 is actually a fair bargain. Regular monthly bills on water or electricity are no longer needed. The only thing required is routine maintenance.



As for the robot itself, this is impressive. There was another robot a year or 2 ago that was able to do the interior plumbing and basic wiring as well but it took days to complete the bigger house and required changing of components and toolset by an operator. This technology is only going to get better though in the coming years. Though the hundreds of millions of construction workers or commercial drivers that'll be replaced by these machines won't think the same. Hopefully, universal basic income gets adopted soon after these changes become more commonplace since it's been proven a huge success in trial countries so far. We still don't know what to do with the overpaid CEO's that already don't do work today and get huge bonuses. Some of these sectors may need to get rid of these redundant CEOs and go "non-profit". Just make what is needed to pay those that work there and fund operations and maintenance cost, then pass the savings from the redundant positions downwards making things even cheaper, and just have the workers oversee and maintain the machines with some managers.
 
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Not too shabby. If I were to win the lottery, and it were just me and my wife, something like this might be workable. My question is how efficient the water collection system is. Can it really pull enough water for showers, toilet usage, cooking, drinking, washing dishes, etc?
 
leathco016 said:
Not too shabby. If I were to win the lottery, and it were just me and my wife, something like this might be workable. My question is how efficient the water collection system is. Can it really pull enough water for showers, toilet usage, cooking, drinking, washing dishes, etc?
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I doubt it. Either way, $64k is a lot of money for what you're getting. It's basically a very small trailer with a solar roof and fancy water tank.
 
They look nice. But that is a bit high cost for a tiny house, even a self sufficient one. I think a majority of the market for tiny houses wouldn't be willing to spend that much. For $64k+, I'd want a more house.
 
home prices are becoming ridiculous these days a thousand sq ft home getting close to two hundred grand to build is just wrong , at first the tiny house movement seemed like maybe a solution not a good one but at least an alternative.. now they are getting close to the 100k mark its crazy anymore.
 
Pretty nice looking house for when there are lot less humans on the planet.

In the sci-fi book series We Are Bob, nearly everything is created with 3D Printers. There are even printers sitting in orbit that print all the materials needed planet side, and even print the transport vessels that bring down the materials. I can see community printers becoming a thing maybe in the next century.
 
A lot of glass, would be too cold up here in Canada.

Frankly out of all the printed houses, the Russian concrete printed house impressed me the most.
 
Great! I've always wanted a house made out of the same shit that's piling up in our landfills and will never decompose on it's own.
 
Windows are put in later by a person.... the house is >50% windows, yet a robot builds it in 8 hours.

At least it's not the robo-poop house builder :D
 
Looks like it printed a 64k shipping container home. Which you could build on your own for a lot less. I agree, with time the cost and features will improve.
 
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Sorry. Maybe someday 3d printing could make sense, but this could be built from lumber in less time, for less cost, greater strength, and not require bringing in specialized tooling to build on site, or the logistics of transporting a finished structure.
 
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Sorry. Maybe someday 3d printing could make sense, but this could be built from lumber in less time, for less cost, greater strength, and not require bringing in specialized tooling to build on site, or the logistics of transporting a finished structure.
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That looks like one from those children's connect the dots drawing books. Also I highly doubt you can build a house in less than 8 hours from lumber with a hammer and a screwdriver.
 
When complete, the homes are autonomous and mobile, meaning they don't need to connect to external electrical and plumbing systems. Solar energy is stored in a battery connected to the houses, and water is collected and filtered from humidity in the air (or you can pour water into the system yourself). The houses also feature independent sewage systems.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, a de-humidifier will still not provide enough water. You can't go around physics. All such contraptions claiming to create water from air have been thoroughly debunked. waterseer, fontus, what else?
 
I guess they don't have a separate word for "shack" or "cabin" in the Ukrainian language. If people can live in it, it's a HOUSE.
 
Ocellaris said:
$64,000 for a tiny 410 sq ft house isn’t affordable.
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Ironic you say that, as in my area, 1500sq ft is about $240,000 or slightly more in $ per sq foot and that's looking at houses built in the 1980s. For brand new builds, 2000sq is about $550k. So about $115k // 400sq ft so less than half as affordable.
 
M76 said:
Also I highly doubt you can build a house in less than 8 hours from lumber with a hammer and a screwdriver.
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The only thing they are doing in 8 hours is printing the lattice structure in the picture. The rest of the house shown (windows, siding, flooring, cabinets, roof, etc.) is being constructed conventionally, just like every other house made in the last 100 years.
 
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