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ICON develops robotic and AI systems to lower the cost and increase the speed and quality of construction.

Austin, TX Katılım Eylül 2016
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ICON@ICON3DTech·
Build Smarter. Build Faster. Buy Titan. Visit the new iconbuild.com.
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Peter H. Diamandis, MD@PeterDiamandis·
Moonshot Companies: SpaceX, Anduril, Colossal, Lila... What companies Moonshot companies are you tracking?
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ICON@ICON3DTech·
Construction is broken. Software alone won’t fix it. ICON CEO @JasonDBallard joins ICON Prime President @WillHurd on the Austin Next Podcast to unpack why building the future requires a full-stack approach—from housing shortages to lunar infrastructure. Give it a listen.
Jason Scharf@Jason_A_Scharf

The first words spoken on the moon were Houston. @JasonDBallard believes the first thing built on the moon will come from Austin. Ballard is the CEO of @ICON3DTech Will Hurd, former CIA officer, three-term Texas congressman, and OpenAI board member, just joined as President of ICON Prime, the company's new government-focused unit serving the military, the intelligence community, and NASA. I've been tracking ICON for a long time, but this conversation hit different. The thesis that has been at play since 2018 is materializes in the real world faster, cheaper, better and at scale. 1 week vs 59 days 2 people vs 17 people $20 per sqft vs $35 per sqft Tougher and stronger than what's out there, so it can go where no building has gone before The future is starting to look like the future Agenda 0:00 What ICON is building and why shelter is broken 6:40 The regulation stack and ICON as a technology company 11:40 Customer shapes, business model, and the innovation stack 17:10 AI, ChatGPT from the inside, and the case for optimism 23:40 The spoons-and-ditches fallacy and Hurd's regulation inversion 30:30 What is ICON Prime and the barracks crisis 36:40 Military construction, Afghanistan, and expeditionary printing 42:40 The moon base, Olympus, and in-situ resource utilization 49:40 Eight years of the same thesis and software's limit 56:40 Austin's talent gravity and the ICON diaspora 1:00:40 The moon in our lifetime 1:04:40 National security, espionage, and Austin as a target 1:08:40 Laser on the moon, 2028

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Payload 🚀
Payload 🚀@payloadspace·
Robotic construction company ICON today announced the establishment of ICON Prime, a new business unit that will work with the Pentagon and NASA. payloadspace.com/icon-prime-lau…
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Jason Scharf@Jason_A_Scharf·
Milestone for Austin Next yesterday. I’ve wanted @JasonDBallard on the pod for a long time & he was joined by @WillHurd, @ICON3DTech’s new head of Icon Prime. We talked robots, AI, housing, barracks, Moon bases, Austin, & why it finally feels like the future. Episode soon.
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ICON@ICON3DTech·
Introducing ICON Prime, our dedicated defense and space tech division built to bring robotic construction to the nation's most critical infrastructure challenges. → Learn more at ICONPrime.com
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Jason Ballard@JasonDBallard·
Let's go to the Moon! Godspeed Artemis II.
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Jason Ballard
Jason Ballard@JasonDBallard·
It is time to build the MoonBase. @NASA
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@design_critic Take a look at these shorts on our YT page for quick walkthroughs of how the technology works. @ICON3DTech/shorts" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@ICON3DTech/sh…
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Design Critic@design_critic·
@ICON3DTech I’m super curious about what this technology does other than 3D printing walls. Can it do foundations or roofs? How does insulation and integrating MEP systems work (does someone have to knock holes in the walls afterwards to install outlets, etc?).
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Build Smarter. Build Faster. Buy Titan. Visit the new iconbuild.com.
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After nearly a decade of pushing the limits of robotic construction, it's time to reveal what comes next. 3.11.26
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