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3D printing homes on Earth and the Moon

In Austin, Texas, a construction site hums without hammers or saws. Instead, a robotic nozzle extrudes layers of concrete, building walls bead by bead. This is the work of Icon, an eight-year-old ...
Icon has talked a big game about the possibilities of its 3D-printing home technology, but now it’s ready to build. The company will construct one of its first housing developments in Wimberley, a ...
ICON, which builds homes using 3D printing, has closed on $56 million in Series C funding co-led by Norwest Venture Partners and Tiger Global, the company has confirmed to TechCrunch exclusively. The ...
Wells Fargo is announcing it will write mortgages on homes built with Icon 3D printing technology. Wells Fargo will provide a 50 basis point lender credit to buyers of Icon homes using its mortgages.
Texas-based 3D-printed construction and architecture pioneer ICON announced the commercial rollout of new machines, described as a “multi-story robotic construction system.” The Titan is designed to ...
Jason Ballard, the CEO and co-founder of 3D printing architecture company ICON, doesn’t mince his words. “There are certain people who are content to build a really ugly or uninspiring world,” he said ...
The edges of the Mueller neighborhood along Tom Miller Street are quiet, even as a dozen homes are being constructed nearby. That’s because they’re being 3D-printed by Austin-based construction tech ...
To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Icon co-founder and CEO Jason Ballard teases several large ...
Within a decade, a startup known for building cheap 3D-printed houses on Earth is hoping to bring the materials cost for building structures on the lunar surface down to zero. Austin-based ICON said ...
Space agency NASA has awarded construction company ICON a $57 million contract to develop 3D-printing technology to build roads, launchpads and homes on the moon's surface. The contract, worth $57.2 ...