The next step will be to have Daimler's customers set up their own mobile mini-factories complete with the 3-D printers and, through licensing, have them create the parts themselves.
I imagine this even at a retail scale in the future. Receive the raw materials for the 3D printer and instructions on a stick for the printer. Then go to a local 3D printing center and print the ordered component according to received instructions.
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Eventually it will be in everyone's homes. We will see that people have these and just buy the raw materials. That is probably a decade or more away.
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It depends on the scale of the object that needs to be printed. Regular people won't have large 3D printers in their homes. But some of these large objects may be broken down into smaller pieces like legos, for retail use.
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