How Robots Are Solving America’s $4.7 Million Home Crisis – Reframe Systems’ AI Microfactories Explained
The United States is short of around 4.7 million homes, and many existing houses can’t handle the growing challenges of climate change. A startup called Reframe Systems, based in Andover, Massachusetts, believes robots could help fix that.
Founded in 2022 by Vikas Enti and Aaron Small, Reframe Systems is taking lessons from Amazon’s warehouse robots and applying them to construction. Enti helped deploy more than half a million robots at Amazon before deciding to focus on reducing carbon emissions. He saw that building better homes faster could make a real impact.
Construction is one of the hardest industries to automate. Every house needs around 25 different subcontractors, each working independently. This fragmentation makes the process slow, expensive, and difficult to innovate. As Enti puts it, “automating a bad process is one of the worst things you can do.”
Reframe Systems’ answer is the robotic microfactory — compact, highly automated facilities that build major parts of a house before shipping them to the site. This approach removes much of the chaos that happens during traditional on-site construction. The company aims to automate 60–80% of the building process.
Inside these microfactories, standard industrial robot arms assemble walls, ceilings, and insulation. Their secret is custom software that connects design files directly to the robots, allowing the machines to adapt quickly to new layouts.
Reframe Systems isn’t just rethinking how we build houses. It’s rethinking how we build the future.
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