No. In that sense, you can already just give a guy at the Home Depot $500 to “add a new room to your house”. Are you living the revolution?
If construction is labor-intensive and expensive, stick framing is the cheapest and easiest part. If you come up with an automated solution that replaces the need for expensive interior finishing processes, you’ll have a huge market... finishing out existing stick-framed construction. No one selling houses wants this.
If you want to use modern technology to mass-produce homes with less labor, that’s called prefabricated construction and it’s a process that’s only about a thousand years old. Someday robots will do it all automatically on-site but we’re no where near doing that in the foreseeable future, in part because the demands on houses are predictably rising at pace with the capabilities of robots.
I don’t mean to be snide, but this is a little like dropping by a homebuilding forum and they’re all talking about how some day soon desktop PCB fabrication is going to replace all of Silicon Valley, because they don’t quite know the difference between a chip and a circuit board. It’s just embarrassing, y’all.
> If you come up with an automated solution that replaces the need for expensive interior finishing processes
There is already a large panel prefab process, which is highly automated, including finishing, but it doesn't seem to be anywhere near "revolutionising" the industry.
The thing is, in North America the preference for single family houses is so strong that making people care about extra $100k is really hard.
If construction is labor-intensive and expensive, stick framing is the cheapest and easiest part. If you come up with an automated solution that replaces the need for expensive interior finishing processes, you’ll have a huge market... finishing out existing stick-framed construction. No one selling houses wants this.
If you want to use modern technology to mass-produce homes with less labor, that’s called prefabricated construction and it’s a process that’s only about a thousand years old. Someday robots will do it all automatically on-site but we’re no where near doing that in the foreseeable future, in part because the demands on houses are predictably rising at pace with the capabilities of robots.
I don’t mean to be snide, but this is a little like dropping by a homebuilding forum and they’re all talking about how some day soon desktop PCB fabrication is going to replace all of Silicon Valley, because they don’t quite know the difference between a chip and a circuit board. It’s just embarrassing, y’all.