A Chinese company called HuaShang Tengda built a villa with a robotic arm attached to a 3D printer head. It actually printed a full-sized house onto a steel frame in only 45 days. Every wall is almost ten inches thick, and the building is designed to withstand an earthquake that measures an eight on the Richter scale. Using the 3-D printer also allowed the company to create extravagant turrets that would take a lot of time for a team of builders. This villa would have taken three months to build with traditional construction methods, but 3D printing cut the time, labor, and material costs. Printing the house on site was a forward step that showed it really could be done in the field. This is a complete, functional house, and not just a simple engineering demonstration done in a laboratory.
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