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What if buildings in your city built themselves?
Quiet, small-scale construction is always happening. If your building needs more space, off-site engineers can change building plans and codes remotely, communicating with you directly on how your space could be modified and changed. You can program small-scale swarm robots to break down targeted pieces of your existing structure, placing materials that can be re-used in the new design in storage sacks until they’re needed again....
Research informing this future
Automated, small scale swarming robots, and 3d printing construction are getting increasingly sophisticated. Their abilities to navigate construction with pre-fabricated modules, materials recycled from the previous structure and pieces 3D printed onsite are likely to grow at rapid rates. Drones are already 3d printing towers. How long until they're remaking our homes while we're sleeping inside?
Action items to address construction backlogs and affordable housing issues
Investing in shared equity models can make housing more accessible, particularly if governments or nonprofits facilitate systems to subsidize home purchasing.
Would you want small scale swarm robots to be conducting continuous fabrication in your neighborhood? Would you not? Why?
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