World's biggest 3D printer unveiled in Maine may one day create entire neighborhoods
The University of Maine already had the world's largest 3D printer. It just unveiled a new one that's four times bigger.
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The University of Maine already had the world's largest 3D printer. It just unveiled a new one that's four times bigger.
The university that boasts the world’s largest 3D printer developed one even bigger. And it’s poised to help tackle one of America’s biggest problems of all: affordable housing.
The university wants to show how homes can be constructed almost entirely by a printer with a lower carbon footprint.
The world’s largest 3D printer has created a house that can cut construction time and labor. The machine revealed Tuesday at the University of Maine is four times larger than the first one — commissioned less than five years ago — and capable of printing ever mightier objects. There could be even larger printers after the University of Maine breaks ground this summer on a new building, a spokesperson said.
And they just unveiled an even bigger one to print entire neighborhoods.