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RIC Robotics printers build out Colorado’s first 3D printed metro district

RIC Robotics printers build out Colorado’s first 3D printed metro district

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• Seven homes are complete and several sold at Cleora, a 55-acre development in Salida, Colorado that its backers expect to become one of the world’s largest planned 3D printed residential communities. Site infrastructure is finished, more houses are under construction, and two autonomous printing systems from RIC Robotics are running on site. The plan calls…

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Seven homes are complete and several sold at Cleora, a 55-acre development in Salida, Colorado that its backers expect to become one of the world’s largest planned 3D printed residential communities. Site infrastructure is finished, more houses are under construction, and two autonomous printing systems from RIC Robotics are running on site. The plan calls for 106 homesites in total, of which more than 65 are expected to be printed.

The buildout is deliberately slow. Cleora managing partner Greg Kenny told Homes.com the full community will take five to six years, that the team is still refining its process, and that printing is not yet cheaper or faster than conventional building, a steep learning curve the project is treating as the point rather than a setback. True North, the developmen

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