Construction Inspection Robots
Robots and robot dogs that walk the site to capture progress, scans and inspection data.
42 robots · 48 companies · from the Future of Built file
By trade
- Inspection · 35
- Aerial · 3
- Facade · 2
- Logistics · 1
- Welding · 1
Robots
Boston Dynamics
Voliro
DEEP Robotics
Invert Robotics
Emesent
ScoutDI
Percepto
Scaled Robotics
Acuity Robotics
Optimotive
Sanshin Building Materials
SquareDog RoboticsCompanies
- Boston Dynamics · Waltham, United States · founded 1992
Spot is now a regular on jobsites - scanning, safety walks, and as-built capture on terrain wheels cannot handle.
- Gecko Robotics · Pittsburgh, United States · founded 2013
Wall-climbing robots plus Cantilever AI for inspecting boilers, tanks, bridges, and the infrastructure that holds cities up.
- FieldAI · Irvine, United States · founded 2023
FieldAI (Field Foundation Models) run on Spot and other platforms - hundreds of live sites, three continents. DPR, Big-D, McLaren, Innovo in Dubai, Caterpillar. BuiltWorlds’ highest-rated robotics company among GCs in 2026.
- ANYbotics · Zurich, Switzerland · founded 2016
ANYmal is a rugged quadruped for autonomous industrial inspection - stairs, grate floors, and plants that were never designed for robots.
- Skydio · San Mateo, United States · founded 2014
AI obstacle-avoiding drones for site capture, progress, and inspection through the clutter that makes construction unflyable for most UAVs.
- Scaled Robotics · Barcelona, Spain · founded 2016
Mobile robots that scan the jobsite and compare it to the BIM model. Quality control that does not wait for the punch list.
- Voliro · Zurich, Switzerland · founded 2019
Tilt-rotor drones that fly ultrasonic probes into contact with steel. Inspection where a rope team used to go.
- Flybotix · Lausanne, Switzerland · founded 2019
Confined-space inspection drones for tanks, ducts, and tunnels - the voids a conventional UAV cannot enter.
- ScoutDI · Trondheim, Norway · founded 2017
Rugged inspection drones for GPS-denied industrial interiors. Norwegian confined-space flying for tanks and plants.
- Doxel · Redwood City, United States · founded 2014
Autonomous scanning that walks the job and scores percent-complete against the model. Reality capture that does not wait for a Thursday flyover.
- Flyability · Lausanne, Switzerland · founded 2014
Elios - a collision-tolerant drone that flies inside tanks, chimneys, and the voids a person should not enter.
- Emesent · Brisbane, Australia · founded 2018
Hovermap LiDAR that flies or walks GPS-denied mines, plants, and unfinished decks.
- Exyn · Philadelphia, United States · founded 2014
Autonomous aerial mapping in GPS-denied space. Mines, plants, the volume a total station cannot see.
- Invert Robotics · Cork, Ireland · founded 2015
Climbing inspection robots for tanks, blades, and the elevation a rope team used to own.
- JLG · McConnellsburg, United States · founded 1969
Boom lifts - and now Canvas. The access OEM that bought the drywall robot.
- FARO · Lake Mary, United States · founded 1981
Laser scanners and the as-built that the superintendent still walks with a tablet.
- NavVis · Munich, Germany · founded 2013
VLX wearable mapping. Walk the job, leave with a point cloud.
- Percepto · Modi'in, Israel · founded 2014
Dock-based autonomous drones for industrial sites. The flyover that no longer needs a pilot on the roof.
- DEEP Robotics · Hangzhou, China · founded 2017
Quadrupeds for inspection on rough ground. Chinese industrial dogs on plants and sites.
- Energy Robotics · Darmstadt, Germany · founded 2019
Fleet software that runs Spot, ANYmal, and drones on industrial sites as one inspection crew.
- Unitree · Hangzhou, China · founded 2016
Hangzhou quadrupeds. The B2 walks plant stairs and unfinished decks that a wheeled scanner will not - industrial inspection, not a living-room demo.
- Autel Robotics · Shenzhen, China · founded 2014
EVO Max 4T - autonomous mapping and thermal from Nanshan. The other Shenzhen airframe GCs put on a corridor when DJI is not the bid.
- LimX Dynamics · Shenzhen, China · founded 2022
Nanshan humanoids on live decks. TRON 2 is the modular dual-arm platform ZINOVA put on formwork and rebar - a general-purpose torso doing trade work, not a kung-fu demo.
- Acuity Robotics · Leeds, United Kingdom · founded 2019
Squirrel is a magnetic climber for towers, ducts, and ferrous steel - camera and thickness up where a rope access crew used to hang. Leeds spin-out. BuiltWorlds Robotics Top 50 in 2026.
- Optimotive · Windsor, Canada · founded 2020
IRIS walks the site for 3D and 360 capture so supers get as-builts without a surveyor shadowing every pour. Windsor, Ontario. EllisDon, Pomerleau, and Borea already ran it on construction and solar QA.
- 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.
- Sanshin Building Materials · Toyohashi, Japan · founded 1953
NOBORIN climbs exterior walls on suspension for camera and hammer-tap inspection. Co-developed with Toyohashi University of Technology. The swing a facade inspector used to hang for.
- SquareDog Robotics · Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR · founded 2016
SkyDog and SkyCare climb facades without a gondola for clean, water-tightness, and inspection. Hong Kong landmark deployments. EMSD listed, awards on the shelf.
- SuperDroid Robots · Fuquay-Varina, United States · founded 2003
Groundhog captures 360 on the jobsite; HK1500 hauls heavy material as an AMR. Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina. BuiltWorlds 2025 Top 50.
- HausBots · Birmingham, United Kingdom · founded 2018
HB1 climbs walls for facade inspection; coating spray still in development. Birmingham. Services and product pages live - inspection ships now.
- Square Robot · Westborough, United States · founded 2016
SR-3 is an autonomous submersible tank-inspection robot - API 653 / EEMUA 159, FM Approved. Westborough, MA. Inspects aboveground storage tanks on-stream without confined-space entry.
- International Climbing Machines · Ithaca, United States · founded 2001
Vacuum-held climbing robots for dams, bridges, tanks, and towers - NDT, hydroblast, and coating payloads. Ithaca, NY. The rope-access crawl a inspector used to hang for.
- Avestec · North Vancouver, Canada · founded 2016
Xron ST is an ultra-compact magnetic NDT crawler for pipes, vessels, and dense ferrous assets - North Vancouver. UT, EMAT, PAUT, and visual on coatings; LiDAR-SLAM and AveSoft reporting for industrial and infrastructure inspection.
- JettyRobot · Prague, Czechia · founded 2010
JettyRobot 6 crawls pipes and ducts 350–1,350 mm for inspection, dry-ice/air blast, brush clean, vacuum, and coating - Prague. Rental and sale for industrial, energy, and building MEP pipe work where a person does not fit.
- Elid · Singapore, Singapore · founded 1988
AXIOBOTS is a patented facade cleaning, painting, inspection, and water-tightness system for gondolas, boom lifts, and scissors - Singapore. Deployed on Singapore high-rises for exterior glass and cladding.
- AMBPR · Allevard, France · founded 2018
GreenDock is an autonomous MEWP-class mobile robot for wash, blast, paint, and inspection on large vertical surfaces - Allevard. Shipyard and industrial hull work with telescopic tool head.
- Deep Trekker · Ayr, Canada · founded 2010
Pipe Trekker and DT340-class pipe crawlers for sewer, storm, and industrial line inspection - Ayr, ON. Portable CCTV crawlers and ROVs for underwater and confined infrastructure.
- Freefly Systems · Woodinville, United States · founded 2011
Astro is a U.S.-built commercial hexacopter for survey, inspection, and cinema payloads - Woodinville, WA. Designed, built, and supported in the Pacific Northwest for NDAA-aware enterprise flight.
- Inspired Flight · San Luis Obispo, United States · founded 2018
IF1200A is an NDAA-compliant heavy-lift hexacopter for industrial and public-safety payloads - San Luis Obispo. Universal payload rail for survey cameras, LiDAR, and jobsite sensors.
- 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.
- Robotnik · Valencia, Spain · founded 2002
RB-SUMMIT / Summit-XL class AMRs carry scanners and cameras for construction inspection and survey - Valencia. Outdoor mobile base used on European Construction 4.0 pilots.
- Ghost Robotics · Philadelphia, United States · founded 2015
Vision 60 is a quadruped for industrial and construction-site inspection - Philadelphia Navy Yard. Legs for stairs and rubble where wheeled UGVs stop; cameras and sensors on the back.
- Delair · Toulouse, France · founded 2011
DT46 and sibling fixed-wing UAVs map construction, mining, and linear infrastructure - Toulouse. Long-endurance survey without the multirotor battery swap every few minutes.
- ModalAI · San Diego, United States · founded 2018
Starling 2 Max is a GPS-denied development and inspection drone - San Diego. VOXL compute for indoor and cluttered yards where consumer drones lose the lock.
- MAB Robotics · Poznań, Poland · founded 2019
Honey Badger is a waterproof quadruped for land and shallow water inspection - Poznań. RBR50 2025. Legs where wheeled UGVs stop at the puddle or the stair.
- HEBI Robotics · Pittsburgh, United States · founded 2014
Tready is a rugged tracked mobile robot for stairs, uneven ground, and confined inspection - Pittsburgh. Modular actuators under a deck that walks where wheeled carts stop.
- Parrot · Paris, France · founded 1994
ANAFI USA is a NDAA-aware professional inspection drone made in the USA - Paris HQ, U.S. build for government and enterprise survey. Thermal and zoom for the roof and facade day a crew used to walk.
- Capra Robotics · Aarhus, Denmark · founded 2015
Hircus is an outdoor AMR for perimeter, inspection, and yard logistics - Aarhus. RBR50 2024. Four wheels past the curb a indoor AMR cannot finish; VELUX-class yard routes already ran it.
Frequently asked questions
- Why use robots for inspection?
- They repeat the same route consistently and can reach confined, high or hazardous spaces.
- Which companies are on the construction inspection robots list?
- Future of Built lists 48 companies here, including Boston Dynamics, Gecko Robotics, FieldAI, ANYbotics, Skydio, Scaled Robotics, Voliro and Flybotix.
- Where are these companies headquartered?
- By headquarters: United States (17), Canada (4), China (4), Switzerland (4), France (3).
- How many of these robots are deployed?
- Of the 42 robots on this page, 41 deployed, 1 pilot, per the Future of Built file.