July 24

As we all know concrete comes with its set of challenges. Specifically for 3D printing those challenges are cement concentration and clogged hoses. Clay avoids both of these, at least clogs aren’t fatal to the hose. ClayX will research clay printing further. A current issue is the build-ability, currently it’s very challenging to make a 0% cement mix that can build over 30cm per day because there is no chemical setting reaction like you see in concrete.

Here is the ClayX project announced by Hendrik Benz from the Robotics in Construction journal.

Boxabl has raised a ton of money and it hasn’t gone to waste, here is a cracked engineer demonstrating the boxabl ‘breadboard’ where they can test all the circuitry in a mock installation.

Here is a Crunchbase article from February how VC is betting on construction tech. I just saw it today for the first time maybe you did too!