This Robot-Built House Could Change Everything

Executive Producer and Narrator - Fred Mills
Producer - Adam Savage
Video Editing and Graphics - Thomas Canton

Special thanks to FBR and Mark Pivac.

Additional footage and images courtesy of FBR, ABB/Gramazio Kohler Research, AIST, Brokk, ETH Zurich, Boston Dynamics, Construction Automation, Construction Robotics, GP Vivienda, Hilti, Printstones, Scaled Robotics and Walt Disney Pictures/Buena Vista Pictures Distribution.

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[RobinClower]

This seems way better than the 3D printed homes. The tech is similar just faster, it's smaller and has less setup only requiring a single truck, and it's aesthetics are conventional

[Xiph]

Interesting machine, but man, that neighborhood looks horrific! What's the use of a freestanding home if you don't actually use the area for a garden? Might as well get an apartment.

[lemster]

Proud to see this in Australia. A little less proud to see the types of homes we're still building (massive footprint, poor use of space, zero insulation)

[woodvineandco]

Before anyone blames the machine that's just how bad average new neighbourhoods look in Perth.

[DrClausewitz]

a normal build neighbourhood lmao. this looks pretty confusing for a european

[goober]

I love the level of thought put into each of these videos. Instead of just advertising new tech like other channels you guys question the claims made by these companies. Love it.

[oasishurl]

Having it on a truck is genius. MIT was working on this, but they settled for only building things with light and a long exposure photograph...They were so close to the future of construction.

[almostanengineer]

This looks more promising than 3D printed houses.

[malachaiuys]

*Why does a literal continent, that has a mere 20-something million people living in it, have to build homes in such a cramped manor with no yard space?*

[Uberfluous]

"Those workers could be retrained to do"
yeah right. Because Brickies are computer savvy.

[studylondon]

Imagine ordering a house on amazon and tracking its progress within the app....

[supercadet]

Am I the only one not seeing the bonding agent (mortar) in these videos? Or is this just marketing stuff, so they didn't want the true messy look in their B role?

[Dampy.]

This is exactly what I've been imagining as a house 3D printer. It's mobile so it's easy to set up on site and the house won't look like a concrete cream cake afterwards either.

[FPVsean]

I'm irish and that neighbourhood looks rather odd, houses are very squashed together, and there's no back yards or recreational space around the homes.. Wouldn't Australians want to be able to relax out in the sun on cooler days and evenings??

[Samuel_J]

At first I thought the machine looked really slow, and then you say it's 10x faster than a human brickie!

[kestekrafts]

loved that stock footage comment at the end, was on point

[ShakilAhmed-kfnd]

Future advertisement - "You can't replace the character from a hand-made home. Buy a genuine human built house today!"

[QuentinWatt]

Building houses shown at 0:42 makes me question why these people don't just live in apartment blocks.
Do you have no love for outdoor spaces in your back yards?

I get that building codes probably won't let them go double story, but honestly if the whole neighbourhood just ends up looking like this, it's a monumental waste of good space.

[ravenfeeder]

Given the accuracy of lasers couldn't the bricks be laid so close togeter they don't need as much if any mortar. Especially if you have jigsaw shaped joints at each end. Some stone and bronze age buildings had amazingly tight toleances between stones and those are weatherproof 3000 years later.

[MattCooperKay]

I'm confused by the intentional gap between each brick?