Robots and the Construction Labor Shortage
Robots built for the trades that are hardest to staff.
60 robots · 79 companies · from the Future of Built file
By trade
- Finishing · 26
- Layout · 11
- Rebar · 10
- Drilling · 7
- Masonry · 6
Robots
Dusty Robotics
Monumental
FBR
Hilti
Baubot
Bright Dream Robotics
MYRO
Mechasys
nLink
Q-Bot
LightYX
- BMR leveling robot
- TRON 2
- X1 Piling
- Drillcorpio D3
- T-iROBO Rebar
- TomoRobo
- Pit Viper
- Fangshi tile
- T-iROBO Slab
- Centa Painter
- KOBOT X
- GRID
- RBTS1
- Lionel marking fleet
- WLTR
- ABLR
- PMC-3000iE
- Floor Tile Paving Robot
- Floor Master Type 130
- Autonomous Mobile Tying Robot
- Robot Plotter
- COROSOLS layout
- JKZ tile-laying robot
- HOKUSAI
- SumiROBO
- COMAX Rebar Tying Robot
- Xiao Mo M10
- Golden Crown plastering robot
- DM plastering robot
- MS-430e
- OG1
- Fabrica grouting robot
- Plika printer
- Azimuth grinder
- ROBEE
- DF-G800
Companies
- Dusty Robotics · Mountain View, United States · founded 2018
Prints full-scale BIM layouts onto slabs so every trade works from the same floor drawing - no chalk lines, no tape.
- Advanced Construction Robotics · Pittsburgh, United States · founded 2013
TyBot ties rebar and IronBot places it. Built for bridge decks and heavy civil - the work crews least want to do by hand.
- Monumental · Amsterdam, Netherlands · founded 2021
Autonomous bricklaying robots coordinated by Atrium, a construction OS that connects the design model to the wall.
- FBR · Perth, Australia · founded 2015
Hadrian X is a truck-mounted blocklaying robot that builds structural walls from a digital model, outdoor, in weather.
- 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.
- HP SitePrint · Palo Alto, United States · founded 2022
HP’s imaging precision applied to slab layout. Prints MEP and architectural markings directly onto concrete.
- Okibo · Englewood, United States · founded 2018
EG7 is a fully autonomous painting and drywall finishing robot. No site prep, no external tracks. Over a million square feet finished.
- Toggle Robotics · New York, United States · founded 2018
Industrial robots pre-assemble rebar cages offsite for transit, bridges, and energy - then deliver them to the deck.
- nLink · Oslo, Norway · founded 2016
Autonomous ceiling drilling. The robot marks and drills thousands of holes from BIM so electricians stop looking up all day.
- MYRO · Singapore, Singapore · founded 2019
AI-guided interior finishing robots for coatings and surface treatment across large commercial floor plates in Asia.
- Hilti · Schaan, Liechtenstein · founded 1941
Jaibot is a semi-autonomous ceiling drilling robot that executes BIM-coordinated overhead work with dust extraction built in.
- Mechasys · Montreal, Canada · founded 2018
Robotic layout and installation for MEP - hangers, sleeves, and overhead components placed from coordinated BIM.
- 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.
- Baubot · Vienna, Austria · founded 2018
Fischer Group’s mobile construction robot. Drills, marks, measures, and installs from the digital plan - including inside tunnels.
- Bright Dream Robotics · Foshan, China · founded 2018
Country Garden’s robotics arm. Interior finishing, masonry, and site robots deployed at Chinese housing scale - thousands of units, not pilots.
- 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.
- Fangshi Technology · Suzhou, China · founded 2019
Laser screed robots for concrete leveling. The floor that has to be flat before anyone else shows up.
- Rugged Robotics · Houston, United States · founded 2018
Layout as a service. A yellow-wheeled printer that puts the drawing on the slab so industrial and commercial jobs stop snapping chalk.
- Finish Robotics · Pittsburgh, United States · founded 2021
ANDY sprays coatings and plaster autonomously. Another Pittsburgh shop, another trade that wrecks lungs.
- Xpanner · Santa Fe Springs, United States · founded 2019
Korean-founded, California-based autonomous excavation. Terrain modeling and machine control for civil cuts.
- LightYX · Tel Aviv, Israel · founded 2018
BeamerOne projects the drawing onto floors, walls, and ceilings. Drywall and MEP layout without a printer or a chalk line.
- Q-Bot · London, United Kingdom · founded 2012
Crawlers that spray insulation under suspended floors. Retrofit, social housing, the void a person should not crawl.
- Trimble · Westminster, United States · founded 1978
Earthworks machine control, layout, and the total station that still runs the civil site. The stack most GCs already own.
- Leica Geosystems · Heerbrugg, Switzerland · founded 1819
Hexagon’s survey and reality-capture stack. The control network every layout robot still ties to.
- Epiroc · Stockholm, Sweden · founded 2018
Autonomous drill rigs and underground loaders. Mining construction, not a press-demo arm.
- Buildroid AI · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · founded 2024
BIM-sim masonry coordination. UAE pilots, US commercial next. The digital twin before the brick.
- JLG · McConnellsburg, United States · founded 1969
Boom lifts - and now Canvas. The access OEM that bought the drywall robot.
- Progress Group · Brixen, Italy · founded 1961
Precast automation - carousel plants, mesh welders, the Italian line that pours the panel.
- Pictobot · Eindhoven, Netherlands · founded 2016
Interior painting robot from the Netherlands. The commercial bay that still gets rolled by hand.
- QuiMo · Aachen, Germany · founded 2020
Compact indoor robots that handle heavy tools on the floor plate. German, corridor-sized.
- Somero · Fort Myers, United States · founded 1985
The boom laser screed that flattened the big-box floor. S-22EZ still the machine a concrete contractor names when the FF number has to hold.
- BrightMaster Robotics · Shenzhen, China · founded 2018
bm-robot.com. Shenzhen BrightMaster. Leveling, coating, measuring, and a hoist - 5,000-plus machines on Chinese and overseas decks, not a prototype stand.
- 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.
- Taisei · Tokyo, Japan · founded 1873
Shinjuku GC. T-iROBO ties rebar and finishes slabs so the crew is not on their knees for the whole deck. Super-five Japanese contractor, robots that already work nights.
- KEN ROBOTECH · Miki, Japan · founded 2013
TomoRobo crawls the mat and ties with MAX guns you already own. Kagawa shop. Daiwa House, Tokyu, Sumitomo Mitsui - the tie that used to wreck wrists.
- Pace Robotics · Bengaluru, India · founded 2020
Centa Painter does putty, sand, primer, and paint on interior walls and ceilings. Bengaluru shop. Commercial deployments from Dec 2025 - the finish a crew used to spray and sand by hand.
- Les Companions · Marcq-en-Barœul, France · founded 2018
PACO is a collaborative painter cobot - the robot sprays the hard, repetitive coat while the painter keeps the edges and decisions. Marcq-en-Barœul. New builds and big renovations.
- KOBOTS · Odense, Denmark · founded 2018
Mobile sheet-cutting robots for drywall and board - Classic and X lines, phone app, less dust than a plunge saw. Odense. The cut a carpenter used to bend over the sheet to make.
- Arn Autonomy · San Francisco, United States · founded 2024
GRID ties rebar on commercial decks so wrists stay off the mat. San Francisco. Rebrand from Spacer Robotics - same yard, same tying job.
- Castor Robotics · Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR · founded 2024
RBTS1 ties flat-mat rebar so ironworkers stay off their knees on the deck. Hong Kong Science Park spin under HKCRC. Eighty-plus commercial sites claimed across HK, mainland, and the Middle East.
- August Robotics · Las Vegas, United States · founded 2018
Lionel marks CAD and BIM layouts on the slab so the chalk line is not the bottleneck. Las Vegas with yards in HK Science Park, Düsseldorf, Melbourne, and Shenzhen. Layout robot, not a survey toy.
- 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.
- ConBotics · Berlin, Germany · founded 2020
MalerRoboter is a lightweight modular interior airless painter - rental and sale, TechnoMaler service. Berlin manufacturing. The coat a painter used to spray until the shoulders gave out.
- ROICO Solutions · Odense, Denmark · founded 2021
Bobby is a collaborative wall and ceiling painter on a RaaS model. Odense. Live Danish jobs in warehouses, malls, and sports halls.
- LAYERED · Zurich, Switzerland · founded 2022
Autonomous spray robot that lays protective layers and surface finishes while moving. Switzerland. Gebert Ruf Stiftung funded - early commercial, real spray path.
- WEIBUILD · Shanghai, China · founded 2016
PMC plastering and putty/paint robots that finish interiors at scale. Shanghai. Millions of square meters claimed, competition awards, live catalog.
- Fulltime Robotics · Hangzhou, China · founded 2018
P600 Max and the spray line do putty, paint, and grind indoors - screed and trowel siblings beside them. Hangzhou. Five million-plus square meters claimed; Singapore and HK projects.
- Legend Robot · Shenzhen, China · founded 2017
Interior latex paint, tile lay, and floor grind robots from Shenzhen. BATIMAT 2026 exhibitor. Singapore HDB cases claimed.
- Partner Robotics · Dongguan, China · founded 2019
Floor tile paving robot plus scribing and mortar leveling siblings. Dongguan. Hundred-thousand-plus square meters and fifty-plus projects claimed across ten-plus countries.
- 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.
- Build Additive · Austin, United States · founded 2021
Atlas Printer prints masonry walls on site as a turnkey 3DCP kit with CSA mortar workflow. US. Pricing published - kit, not a research gantry.
- GMT Robotics · Brondby, Denmark · founded 2018
Mega WeldMate and WeldMate weld rebar mesh and cages adaptively. Brondby. Tunnel-segment welding demos - fab-first but construction steel.
- MAX Co., Ltd. · Tokyo, Japan · founded 1942
Autonomous mobile rebar-tying unit from the TWINTIER lineage. Tokyo. World of Concrete 2025 debut - the tool brand ironworkers already know, now rolling the mat.
- Tyker · Barneveld, Netherlands · founded 2015
Robot Plotter and striping siblings mark civil layout and road premark from GNSS. Barneveld. Dutch OEM with rental and support live in 2026.
- Corosols · Ben Guerir, Morocco · founded 2022
Total-station-guided BIM floor-layout tracing robot on a RaaS model. Ben Guerir / UM6P. Casablanca award 2026, JESA pilot, BBC Arabic coverage.
- JKZ Technology · Shanghai, China · founded 2018
Jobsite tile-laying and overhead hanger drill-install robots from a Tongji University spin. Shanghai / Taicang. National high-tech enterprise - onsite machines first.
- Mirai Kikai · Takamatsu, Japan · founded 2004
HOKUSAI marks floor layouts autonomously - rented as SUMIDAS via Nikken, Takenaka co-dev lineage. Kagawa. Sumi-dashi without the chalk walk.
- Hitachi Channel Solutions · Tokyo, Japan · founded 2004
SumiROBO marks CAD/DXF layouts on the floor with Topcon LN-100/150. Tokyo. NETIS listed - Chiyoda Sokki and Nishio Rent All channels. Not Hitachi Construction Machinery.
- Magenta Robotics · Seoul, South Korea · founded 2018
GT Painter and Advanced GT Painter coat interiors and high-reach walls autonomously. South Korea. SCX 2025 exhibitor - product pages live.
- Comax Intelligent Technology · Shijiazhuang, China · founded 2020
Vision-guided autonomous flat-mat rebar tying robot. Shijiazhuang, Hebei. Live product page, legal entity on the site.
- Daoshan Intelligent Robot · Foshan, China · founded 2019
Xiao Mo M10 marks indoor floors from BIM/CAD to about +/-1 mm. Foshan. CATL layout case claims on the product page.
- Golden Crown Intelligent Technology · Suzhou, China · founded 2016
Plastering robot and 2.5 m concrete leveling robot for jobsites. Suzhou. CSCEC Third Bureau Suzhou demo on the record.
- Derutu · Beijing, China · founded 2017
DM plastering robot with spray and grind siblings for wall finish fleets. Beijing (Zhijiantu / Derutu). Active Chinese product site.
- ZoeRobot Technology · Dongguan, China · founded 2022
Campa-600 installs AAC/ALC wall panels remotely up to about 600 kg and 6 m. Dongguan / Shenzhen. LTA Singapore CR101 claims - Hong Kong Centre for Construction Robotics lineage.
- Masterscreed · Ashford, United Kingdom · founded 2018
MS-430e is an electric automated robotic concrete screed. Ashford, Kent. UK Concrete Show presence - product page live.
- AI Robotics Solutions · Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR · founded 2019
Paint-bot sprays indoor putty, primer, and topcoat autonomously. Hong Kong. CITF/CITAC listings and product pages.
- Origin · San Francisco, United States · founded 2024
OG1 is a general-purpose interior construction robot with modular tools for drywall finish and paint. Artila Robotics Inc. Accel-backed. Live multi-family and commercial floors.
- 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.
- Plika · Gwacheon, South Korea · founded 2022
CAD/DXF floor-layout printer with laser tracking for grid and line marking on the slab. Gwacheon. RoboWorld 2024 debut - centimeter accuracy, compact frame.
- Azimuth AI Construction · Singapore, Singapore · founded 2024
Autonomous concrete grinding and wall handling robots for Singapore jobsites. Azimuth-branded floor finishers with adaptive leveling and dust extraction claims.
- MESH · Zurich, Switzerland · founded 2022
ETH Zurich spin-off for robotic rebar - ACTUATE machine tending, NODE tying/welding cells, ASSEMBLE cage lines. Birr production hall. The ironworker pile that used to wait on a shop floor.
- All3 · Zug, Switzerland · founded 2024
Mantis is a heavy-duty four-legged construction robot for install, fasten, finish, and inspect - paired with All3's timber micro-factory stack. Zug HQ, Berlin/London R&D. Early fleet pilots.
- TCS Robotics · Perham, United States · founded 2022
TCS Pro is a scissor-lift hybrid spray-foam insulation robot for residential and light-commercial interiors - Perham, MN. Auto spray plus detachable gun and paint attachment; V2 Pro on nationwide pre-order with free continental delivery.
- ROBEE Contech · Beer Sheva, Israel · founded 2022
ROBEE is a semi-autonomous floor-tiling robot with adhesive mix/spread and 7-DOF place - Israel. Patents in IL/US/CH/EU. Targets ~200 m²/day vs expert hand tile rates on live interior finishes.
- DaFang · Shenzhen, China · founded 2020
DF-G800 is a jobsite floor-finishing robot for grind/polish on commercial slabs - Shenzhen (HK/Singapore ops). Wall, ceiling, plaster, and brick siblings in the DaFang AI finishing fleet.
- Enabled Robotics · Odense, Denmark · founded 2016
ER-FLEX pairs a MiR mobile base with a Universal Robots arm for mobile pick and place - Odense. Material handling that rolls to the bay instead of fixing the cell to the floor.
- Sol Robotics · San Ramon, United States · founded 2023
HERA is a long-reach robotic arm for commercial interior painting and elevated finishes - San Ramon. Built to take the ladder day off the painter without locking the cell to one bay.
- Apptronik · Austin, United States · founded 2016
Apollo is a general-purpose humanoid for industrial and logistics work - Austin. Built with Google DeepMind and OEM partners to put two hands on tasks that still need a person in the aisle.
Frequently asked questions
- Can robots solve the construction labor shortage?
- They take on repetitive and strenuous tasks so existing crews can do more; they do not replace skilled trades.
- Which companies are on the robots and the construction labor shortage list?
- Future of Built lists 79 companies here, including Dusty Robotics, Advanced Construction Robotics, Monumental, FBR, Canvas, HP SitePrint, Okibo and Toggle Robotics.
- Where are these companies headquartered?
- By headquarters: United States (20), China (15), Japan (5), Denmark (4), Switzerland (4).
- How many of these robots are deployed?
- Of the 60 robots on this page, 47 deployed, 12 pilot, 1 production, per the Future of Built file.