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#3DStartup: Apis Cor, Creators of the 3D Printed House
If you’ve been on the internet in the last year, you may have seen the viral clip of a 3D printed house built in just 24 hours. Apis Cor are a Russian company who built a whole, functional house in…
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If you’ve been on the internet in the last year, you may have seen the viral clip of a 3D printed house built in just 24 hours. Apis Cor are a Russian company who built a whole, functional house in less than a day. Since that video spread worldwide, we had to sit down with Apis Cor to discuss the technology behind it. We were lucky enough to speak with Nikita Cheniuntai, Apis Cor’s CEO and founder, about the technology, the company’s history, and that momentous achievement.
3DN: Introduce yourself, and tell us how you got involved with 3D printing?
Nikita Cheniuntai, Apis Cor founder and CEO.
My name is Nikita Cheniuntai, I am the CEO and founder of Apis Cor. I was fond of robotic engineering since childhood. Later on it grew into professional construction of milling and plasma cutting machines with CNC. Since I’ve always wanted to automatize an optimize processes, at some point I thought where else I could do that. I noticed that the most non-optimized industry was construction. No recent significant changes had been made. We had new construction materials and new technologies, but there were no breakthroughs.
At that moment, when I was thinking of introducing something new into construction industry, 3D printing technology was widely discussed. Small FDM 3D printers were already well-known and people trying to implement this technology into housebuilding just decided to make them bigger in order to print big objects such as houses. Basically it was a direction in which technology had been moving.
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