Ukraine and California-based start-up PassivDom is speeding up the home construction business with its 3D robot, which can print out the walls, roof and floor of a 410 sq ft building, its smallest model, in eight hours. The company, whose homes range in price from $64,000 to $97,000, said the design and production of its larger models can take up to a month, a fraction of the time a traditional home takes to build, while only windows, doors, plumbing and electrical systems are fitted by a human. “Over 100 million people do not have a roof over their heads,” Sorokina said. “People have been building houses for thousands of years but they were never designed this way,” says co-founder Alex Kropivsky.
Ukraine and California-based start-up PassivDom is speeding up the home construction business with its 3D robot, which can print out the walls, roof and floor of a 410 sq ft building, its smallest model, in eight hours. The company, whose homes range in price from $64,000 to $97,000, said the design and production of its larger models can take up to a month, a fraction of the time a traditional home takes to build, while only windows, doors, plumbing and electrical systems are fitted by a human. “People have been building houses for thousands of years but they were never designed this way,” says co-founder Alex Kropivsky.