Construction Automation
Automation across the building process: robots, autonomous machines and robotic factories.
15 robots · 25 companies · from the Future of Built file
By trade
- Prefab · 4
- Finishing · 3
- Earthmoving · 2
- Logistics · 2
- Masonry · 2
- Demolition · 1
- Drilling · 1
Robots
Canvas
Shimizu
Randek
Weinmann
Zoomlion
CSC Robotics
Construction Automation
Clapa
Companies
- Canvas · McConnellsburg, United States · founded 2017
Now part of JLG. Automates drywall finishing - spray, sand, repeat - so crews stop eating dust for twelve-hour shifts.
- Komatsu · Tokyo, Japan · founded 1921
Intelligent Machine Control is factory-fitted GPS and blade automation. Machines stop at design grade by themselves.
- Randek · Falkenberg, Sweden · founded 1940
ZeroLabor robotic lines for wall panels, floor cassettes, and roof trusses. Prefab automation with eight decades of timber DNA.
- Construction Robotics · Victor, United States · founded 2011
SAM, the Semi-Automated Mason, lays brick with a human mason - lifting, placing, and keeping pace on commercial walls.
- Shimizu · Tokyo, Japan · founded 1804
Smart Site: a Japanese general contractor that builds its own robots - ceiling install, welding, material transport - and runs them on its own jobs.
- CSC Robotics · Hong Kong, Hong Kong · founded 2019
Autonomous ceiling and wall drilling from BIM. Hangers and sleeves on Asian high-rises without a week of layout.
- Stud Automation · Pune, India · founded 2020
Robotic welding cells for construction steelwork. Indian fabrication yards automating the cage and the frame.
- Sawtooth Robotics · Nampa, United States · founded 2018
Custom automation for the component plant. Their PrePlater puts nail plates on truss members and walks them to the jig - running at The Truss Company in Centralia.
- Weinmann · St. Johann, Germany · founded 1980
HOMAG’s timber-frame lines. Wall, floor, and roof cassettes with robotic nailing, routing, and handling - the German plant most panel yards already know.
- Sandvik · Sandviken, Sweden · founded 1862
AutoMine loaders and trucks. The underground loop that used to need a person in the cab.
- Zoomlion · Changsha, China · founded 1992
Cranes, pumps, and construction automation from Hunan. The other Changsha OEM.
- Progress Group · Brixen, Italy · founded 1961
Precast automation - carousel plants, mesh welders, the Italian line that pours the panel.
- Kajima · Tokyo, Japan · founded 1840
A⁴CSEL - a GC that automated its own iron. Unmanned rollers, dozers, dumps, and excavators on Japanese dams, run from a room in Minato.
- WLTR · Ceske Budejovice, Czechia · founded 2021
Tablet-controlled masonry robot for Porotherm and robot-ready brick walls. GreenBuild / KM Robotics with Wienerberger. German Construction Award 2026 for AI and automation.
- Construction Automation · London, United Kingdom · founded 2016
ABLR lays standard bricks, blocks, and mortar on site - NHBC-approved claims, patents live. UK shop. The brick a mason used to butter by hand.
- Clapa · Wieruszow, Poland · founded 1994
Floor Master Type 130 is a laser-guided automatic floor screeding robot. Wieruszow. Five hundred seventy-plus machines sold across thirty-plus countries since the robot line started in 2009.
- Hardhat Robotics · Santa Clara, United States · founded 2019
SparkE-B remotely energizes large breakers so electricians stay out of the arc-flash zone. Santa Clara. DPR deployments, Automate show, ECM coverage.
- falch · Blaubeuren, Germany · founded 1986
surface rob 250 e is a fully automatic electric UHP hydrodemolition and jetting robot. Blaubeuren-Seissen. Spec sheet and project reports live.
- Masterscreed · Ashford, United Kingdom · founded 2018
MS-430e is an electric automated robotic concrete screed. Ashford, Kent. UK Concrete Show presence - product page live.
- Solar-LIT · Xiamen, China · founded 2018
InstallerBot handles and places PV modules on utility arrays. Xiamen. Xinjiang rate claims on the product pages.
- Fabrica AI · Singapore, Singapore · founded 2021
Autonomous tile grouting and cleaning robots for residential and commercial fit-out. Singapore. BEAMP and HDB-adjacent finishing automation.
- Roborn · Hong Kong, Hong Kong · founded 2017
Robot Tank is a modular jobsite AMR for cone deploy, patrol, and arm payloads on civil and building sites. Hong Kong Science Park. Traffic and site-logistics automation.
- Qlayers · Delft, Netherlands · founded 2017
10Q / 10QX magnetic crawler coats large steel tanks and industrial assets automatically - up to hundreds of m²/h with lower overspray. Delft. Infrastructure coating automation.
- Krosaki · Kitakyushu, Japan · founded 1918
REX-ROBO automates refractory maintenance on ladle slide gates and related hot-steel work cells - Kitakyushu (K-GenesisX). Heat-shrouded industrial arms that take crews out of the hottest refractory exchange jobs.
- Clearpath Robotics · Kitchener, Canada · founded 2009
Husky A300 is a rugged outdoor UGV platform for inspection and research payloads - Kitchener, ON (Rockwell Automation). 100 kg class deck for sensors on live yards and plants.
Frequently asked questions
- What is construction automation?
- Using machines and software to perform construction tasks with less manual effort.
- Which companies are on the construction automation list?
- Future of Built lists 25 companies here, including Canvas, Komatsu, Randek, Construction Robotics, Shimizu, CSC Robotics, Stud Automation and Sawtooth Robotics.
- Where are these companies headquartered?
- By headquarters: Japan (4), United States (4), China (2), Germany (2), Hong Kong (2).
- How many of these robots are deployed?
- Of the 15 robots on this page, 15 deployed, per the Future of Built file.