The pitch for 3D-printed housing has always been the same: robots build faster, waste less, need fewer humans — and therefore make homes cheaper for consumers. It’s a compelling pitch, but it isn’t exactly what happened in Yuba County, California, where a company called 4Dify just finished fabricating what it calls “America’s first 3D-printed neighborhood.”
According to the outlet SlashGear, the neighborhood encompasses five 1,000-square-foot houses just north of Sacramento. Each domicile is produced by a hulking concrete printer worth about $1.5 million, which took about 24 days to spit out the first house.
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