Very cool, but probably not solving the factors involved in housing unaffordability.
Everything is cut from full sized boards as needed on site and installed right there.
It works because wood working machinery is fairly cheap, not heavy and works off standard electric power.
Unless you were doing a _lot_ of cabinets, the labor cost of an idle cabinet maker overwhelms the shipping cost.
On-site, you're paying the cabinet maker to sand the wood.
Assembling building panels with robots in factories with has been done, but it takes a bigger factory, because what's being made is large.[2] That's a legit video showing the whole process of making housing panels.
Connecting and disconnecting these utilities requires special skills and doing it wrong has major consequences. Special licenses and permits are almost always required by government regulators.
It's the "HVAC guy problem", writ large.
In the UK, prefab house panels can often larger than a container and constructed on large platforms
mschuster91•11h ago
[1] https://www.youtube.com/@cyfyhomeinspections
runsWphotons•10h ago