Currently the structures we send and assemble in space have to survive a rocket launch environment to reach orbit or beyond. This significantly constrains what kinds of structures we can build to the volume of the payload bay of the rocket, the forces imparted on it from launch and the overall weight of the equipment sent to space. By designing systems that can autonomously manufacture structures in space, we eliminate all of these constraints. No longer are there any volume or mass constraints on any of the pieces of a system since they’re being fabricated and constructed in the expanse of space with a theoretically infinite amount of material resupply launches. The only constraint then becomes the forces and other space phenomena such as radiation that the structure will have to withstand.
This enables the construction of larger space stations, for research or tourism, larger space observation and monitoring systems similar to the James Webb telescope or other such structures that would be cumbersome to make and operate on Earth, and even in-space manufacturing facilities to produce products that would be difficult or impossible to make with Earth’s gravity. All these structures have implications both inspace and on Earth. For instance, lately there has been significant progress in organ printing which is nearly impossible to do in Earth’s gravity. If a large enough facility capable of producing these organs were to be made in space, it would greatly help those in need of transplants and the medical field in general.
Currently there is one project working on in-orbit 3D printing and assembly of large structures in space known as Archinaut. Their approach, however, differs significantly from what we intend to prototype. Previous work, projects, products, or services undertaken or delivered in the past:  Astrobee, Space Cobot