机器人启动钻石时代已经在A系列融资中筹集了5000万美元，以加速其机器人3D打印构建系统的开发。
The firm is seeking to leverage 3D printing and automated robotics to offset more than half of the manual labor required to build a new home, and reduce construction cycle times from nine months to just 30 days.
钻石时代的创始人兼首席执行官杰克·奥斯兰（Jack Oslan）说：“负担得起的住房正在影响全球范围的人们。”“随着首次购房者的平均年龄从二十多岁升至三十年代中期，人们对更多租赁物业的需求增加了 - 迫使整个租房者的整个层次结构成为更具竞争性的“质量”住房市场。
“Helping the next generation of homebuyers get into their first house faster helps the entire ecosystem of housing.”
钻石时代，机器人技术和3D打印
钻石时代was founded in order to address the US housing market’s single-family home shortage of almost seven million through reducing the construction cycle time of building new homes.
The firm is building a suite of 26 end-of-arm robotic tools with 3D printing capabilities that move along a gantry system to print the interior and exterior walls of a house. The firm’s Robotic-as-a-Service (RaaS) system comprises 3D printing, mechatronics, and robotics in order to automate the process of building new homes.
Sinceraising $8 million in seed fundingin August last year, the company has scaled up the build envelope of its robotic 3D printing system to fabricate a 2,000 square foot single-story home. The firm delivered the first scaled version of its system in addition to a full-scale three-bedroom, two-bathroom house in 11 months, four months ahead of schedule.
Off the back of this success, Diamond Age has secured its first contract with a national homebuilder, which will be announced over the next few days.
解决美国负担得起的房屋危机
钻石时代has raised a significant sum of $50 million upon closing its Series A funding round, taking the total funding raised by the firm to date to $58 million. The funding round was led by scientific start-up investorPrime Movers Lab, which also led the firm’s seed funding round last year.
Previous investors羊驼VC,Dolby Family Ventures,Timber Grove冒险andGaingels所有人都参加了新投资者的参与Signia Venture Partners. 20 percent of the funding round was also made up of production home builders and land developers.
钻石时代will use the latest capital injection to continue scaling its robotics platform and carry out its first commercial home building contract. The company has already doubled in size since its founding and plans to bring more engineering talent on board to continue delivering on its aims.
反过来，该公司希望增加其劳动力将帮助IT与房屋建筑商和开发商合作，以“将房屋建筑变成按需产品”，并最终为买家提供更多选择，以自定义和个性化自己的房屋。
Prime Movers实验室的普通合伙人Suzanne Fletcher说：“钻石时代的现场系统工厂将自动化带到了建筑工地，以回填房屋建筑系统的巨大劳动力短缺。”
“Jack and his team have hit key milestones ahead of schedule and are transforming the way production homes are constructed so it was an easy decision for Prime Movers Lab to lead the company’s Series A.”
3D打印更便宜，更快的房屋
Since construction firmPERI Groupannounced it had begun building the“world’s first” 3D printed commercial apartment buildingback in 2020, multiple projects have deployed additive manufacturing to fabricate commercial homes and accommodation.
例如，Lafargeholcim的津巴布韦的子公司宣布了建造计划affordable, low-carbon homes在该国使用其混凝土3D打印方法，而荷兰建筑公司CyBe Construction已经开始与混凝土专家合作Betonindustrie Brievengat(BIB) to build its first 3D printed homes in the Caribbean.
In October, Texas 3D printing firmICONannounced it was building the最大的3 d印刷住宅社区迄今为止在德克萨斯州奥斯汀列出了第一个3D printed homes on the US’ domestic housing marketlast March.
More recently, construction 3D printer manufacturerCOBOD’s系统已用于创建three new low-cost homesfor those living in the rural US, and construction 3D printing firmAzure Printed Homes已获得交付合同14 3D打印的预制房屋在加利福尼亚州的里奇克斯特（Ridgecrest），完全由再生塑料制成。
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Featured image shows钻石时代’s robotic 3D printing gantry system. Photo via Diamond Age.
