FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – When passing by a residential construction site, you mostly expect to see dozens of workers in hard hats hammering nails or scaling studs. One Fort Wayne investor is working to shake up the residential construction industry through robots.
Rival Holdings is actively investing in new technology to streamline the construction process across a wide range of projects, including residential construction.
Construction is underway in downtown Fort Wayne near Electric Works on what Rival says is the United States’ first house built using a robotic ‘MicroFactory’ system from UK-based construction technology company Automated Architecture (AUAR).
The project uses a robot to produce precision-built wall panels on-site, which are then assembled by local construction professionals…