Robotically built homes going up faster with less expense than traditional construction

Boston 25 News's Bob Dumas visited 13 Gilman Street in Somerville, the site of the first high-performance triple-decker we robotically fabricated in our microfactory in Andover, to see how we're delivering housing almost three times faster and at nearly 20% lower cost than traditional construction.

We went from starting foundation work to handing over keys in about 180 days, compared to the roughly 18 months a project like this would typically take in a city like Somerville. Our regional fabrication approach gives us a controlled production environment with greater quality and predictability, and our CEO and Co-Founder, Vikas Enti, explained why that matters:

"We believe factory-built production is a superior architecture. You get to work in a controlled environment, maintain significant quality control, and design homes as a product that can get customized from site to site."

That's the promise of mass customization: a repeatable production system that still adapts each home to its site, local requirements, and architectural context, rather than turning out identical units.

Massachusetts needs 222,000 new housing units by 2035, and we're scaling to help close that gap on our way to building 1 million homes by 2045.