Baumholder, Germany, March 2025. A family contractor's first run with Hilti's ceiling-drilling robot.
Allgemeine Bauzeitung reported on 26 March 2025 that the OBG Group used the Hilti Jaibot for the first time on a site in Baumholder, Rhineland-Palatinate. According to Hilti, the robot drilled about 4,000 holes in five days, and OBG plans to use it on more projects.
How the Jaibot works
Hilti introduced the Jaibot on 28 October 2020 as its first robot. It is a semi-autonomous, cordless ceiling-drilling robot that works from BIM data. An operator drives it into place by remote, it locates itself with a Hilti PLT 300 robotic total station, drills the holes in reach with dust extraction, and marks them by trade.
Overhead work, handed off
Overhead drilling is some of the most tiring work on an MEP job, and accuracy drops as people get tired. Other jobs tell the same story: metallbau magazine covered 1,100 Jaibot holes for a suspended ceiling at Debeka's Koblenz headquarters, and Denver7 filmed one drilling for an NREL lab in Golden, Colorado, where an operator said it was hitting up to 300 holes a day.
Sources
Source: allgemeinebauzeitung.de
Source: hilti.group
Source: denver7.com
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