A Swiss House Built by Robots Promises to Revolutionize the Construction Industry
13th September 2019
The three-level building near Zurich features 3D-printed ceilings, energy-efficient walls, timber beams assembled by robots on site, and an intelligent home system. Developed by a team of experts at ETH Zurich university and 30 industry partners over the course of four years, the DFAB House, measuring 2,370 square feet (220 square meters), needed 60% less cement and has passed the stringent Swiss building safety codes.
Tom Smith of The Right Coast comments:
Evidently the construction industry is one of the most regulated, inefficient and corrupt businesses in the US. Just replacing human workers with robots and building offsite can save enormous amounts of money and time just by avoiding all the payoffs you have to make otherwise to get anything done. That’s why a lot of these houses are being built in China at the moment.
As usually happens, the things that activists bitch about are caused by the governments to which activists want to give greater power. ‘We’re from the government and we’re here to help.’ Help like that we don’t need.