Inside giant homebuilder D.R. Horton’s bet on robotic homebuilding

Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. D.R. Horton, the nation’s largest homebuilder by volume, has signed a multi-year commercial agreement with Promise Robotics to use the startup’s robotic factory capacity on more than 1,250 homes. The deal, announced October 13, makes D.R. Horton the first major U.S. builder to sign on to Promise Robotics’ Factory-as-a-Service model. On a typical jobsite, framing crews build w...