Established Construction Robotics Companies
Longer-established companies building construction robots and automation, by founding year.
94 companies · from the Future of Built file
Companies
- Husqvarna · Huskvarna, Sweden · founded 1689
DXR remote demolition robots. Compact, electric, operator at a safe distance - the other steel collar in the teardown bay.
- 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.
- Leica Geosystems · Heerbrugg, Switzerland · founded 1819
Hexagon’s survey and reality-capture stack. The control network every layout robot still ties to.
- Volvo CE · Gothenburg, Sweden · founded 1832
Autonomous and electric haulers and excavators. Autonomy as an earnings line, not an innovation booth.
- John Deere · Moline, United States · founded 1837
SmartGrade and autonomous construction equipment. The yellow iron that already knows the surface model.
- 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.
- Wacker Neuson · Munich, Germany · founded 1848
RTLx-SC3 is a remote-controlled trench roller with infrared control for compaction in trenches too tight for a ride-on. Munich. Compaction fleet OEMs know the yellow.
- Sandvik · Sandviken, Sweden · founded 1862
AutoMine loaders and trucks. The underground loop that used to need a person in the cab.
- 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.
- Schindler · Ebikon, Switzerland · founded 1874
R.I.S.E. - an ABB arm in the hoistway that hangs rails so the elevator crew is not on a false car for weeks. Swiss lift OEM, shaft work.
- Obayashi · Tokyo, Japan · founded 1892
Minato GC. Fireproof spray on steel - the coat a person used to hang in a bosun’s chair to put on. Next-generation construction system, not a lab demo.
- Lincoln Electric · Cleveland, United States · founded 1895
The weld OEM that now ships robotic cells into fab shops feeding construction steel.
- Hitachi Construction · Tokyo, Japan · founded 1910
ICT excavators and autonomous haul. Japanese machine control on dirt that still has to move.
- Fujita · Tokyo, Japan · founded 1910
Shibuya GC. SWAN welds square-tube columns on the deck with Daihen arms - Daiwa House on the joint development. The pass a welder used to sit in the heat to run.
- 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.
- Ottobock · Duderstadt, Germany · founded 1919
Paexo shoulder and back exos. German orthotics DNA on the overhead trade.
- Komatsu · Tokyo, Japan · founded 1921
Intelligent Machine Control is factory-fitted GPS and blade automation. Machines stop at design grade by themselves.
- Caterpillar · Irving, United States · founded 1925
Cat Command lets one operator run heavy iron remotely or semi-autonomously - mining, civil, and the big cuts.
- CIFA · Senago, Italy · founded 1928
Mamba is a mobile underground shotcrete sprayer with articulated boom for tunnels and mines. Senago (Milan). Zoomlion-owned concrete equipment OEM.
- MEYCO · Winterthur, Switzerland · founded 1929
Potenza is a high-output wet-shotcrete spraying machine with RoboJet manipulator for tunnels and mines. Winterthur lineage under Master Builders Solutions.
- Topcon · Tokyo, Japan · founded 1932
3D machine control and layout. Dozers and excavators that already know the surface.
- Randek · Falkenberg, Sweden · founded 1940
ZeroLabor robotic lines for wall panels, floor cassettes, and roof trusses. Prefab automation with eight decades of timber DNA.
- Hilti · Schaan, Liechtenstein · founded 1941
Jaibot is a semi-autonomous ceiling drilling robot that executes BIM-coordinated overhead work with dust extraction built in.
- 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.
- XCMG · Xuzhou, China · founded 1943
Chinese heavy iron with driverless rollers and pavers already running highway jobs. The fleet that paves without a cab.
- JCB · Rocester, United Kingdom · founded 1945
LiveLink, machine control, and hydrogen iron. The backhoe that still shows up on every civil job.
- Liebherr · Bulle, Switzerland · founded 1949
Earthmoving and cranes with operator-assist and machine control. The other yellow iron.
- Hammelmann · Oelde, Germany · founded 1949
JETMASTER is a radio-controlled UHP hydrodemolition and surface-prep robot. Oelde. German bridge rehab cases on the books.
- AMV · Flekkefjord, Norway · founded 1949
AMV 4200H is a truck-mounted high-capacity shotcrete robot for tunnel, mining, and rock support - Flekkefjord. Ecospray nozzle head for wash + spray; siblings 6400 / 7450 in the AMV shotcrete line.
- Borum · Aalestrup, Denmark · founded 1951
Road-marking machines with robotic and machine-control options. The civil striping plant, not a parking-lot toy.
- Yuchai · Yulin, China · founded 1951
D170 is an electric remote-controlled demolition robot - tracked, outriggers, breaker attachment, about 780 mm narrow for interiors. Yulin. Yuchai Heavy Industry.
- Hofmann · Rödermark, Germany · founded 1952
Road-marking machines. The civil striping plant Europe already knows.
- CSCEC Third Bureau · Wuhan, China · founded 1952
China Construction’s climbing residential ‘building machine’ - a 200-ton factory that sits on the tower and rises with the floor. Wuhan, Urumqi, the jobs that used to mean a swing stage in the wind.
- 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.
- MiTek · Chesterfield, United States · founded 1955
Cyber and Alpine component equipment. The plates, saws, and software most US truss plants already run.
- BOMAG · Boppard, Germany · founded 1957
ROBOMAG is a cab-less tandem roller that already knows the mat. Fayat iron, Kaiserslautern autonomy, German asphalt.
- Bobcat · West Fargo, United States · founded 1958
Compact loaders with machine control and remote options. The machine that still fits through a gate.
- Liugong · Liuzhou, China · founded 1958
Guangxi OEM. Factory-fit 3D machine control on excavators with Leica - grade from the cab, not a aftermarket sticker.
- Doka · Amstetten, Austria · founded 1958
DokaXbot Lift remotely handles DokaXdek slab formwork panels so the crew is not muscling every deck panel. Amstetten. Bauma 2025 smart-construction press.
- Putzmeister · Aichtal, Germany · founded 1958
Wetkret 3 is a compact tracked shotcrete robot for small tunnel sections - SA 9.1 spraying arm, remote nozzle. Aichtal. Underground concrete spraying staple.
- Elematic · Akaa, Finland · founded 1959
Precast production lines. Hollow-core, walls, the Finnish plant most concrete yards already know.
- Progress Group · Brixen, Italy · founded 1961
Precast automation - carousel plants, mesh welders, the Italian line that pours the panel.
- Normet · Iisalmi, Finland · founded 1962
Minimec and Spraymec lines are remote shotcrete robots for tunnels and mines - tracked and wheeled spraying arms with nozzle control. Iisalmi. Underground concrete support staple.
- AKTIO Corporation · Tokyo, Japan · founded 1967
Strider is a remote low-bed heavy material carrier - rental live July 2025. Tokyo. BIM autonomous pallet and board transport in commercialization beside it.
- PERI 3D Construction · Weissenhorn, Germany · founded 1969
Formwork giant that now sells COBOD-based 3D construction printing. The contractor already has PERI on speed-dial.
- JLG · McConnellsburg, United States · founded 1969
Boom lifts - and now Canvas. The access OEM that bought the drywall robot.
- Hundegger · Hawangen, Germany · founded 1970
CNC timber machines that cut, drill, and mill the member before it hits the jig. The German plant most truss yards already envy.
- NLB · Wixom, United States · founded 1971
Self-Guided SpinJet is a tracked UHP water-jetting robot for coating and pavement-marking removal with line-sensing guidance. Wixom, Michigan. Interpump Group.
- HD Hyundai · Seongnam, South Korea · founded 1972
Smart construction machine control and concept autonomous excavators. Korean iron, digital grade.
- RCT · Perth, Australia · founded 1975
Remote and autonomous control for mining and earthmoving. Perth, the teleremote cab.
- Brokk · Skellefteå, Sweden · founded 1976
Remote-controlled demolition robots for interiors, nuclear, and high-risk teardown. The original steel collar on a compact chassis.
- 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.
- Hidromek · Ankara, Turkey · founded 1978
HMK 130 CS Teleopera is a cabless remote/autonomous soil compactor shown at Bauma - sensor mast, no ride-on cab. Ankara. Heavy-equipment OEM going teleoperated.
- 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.
- Shantui · Jining, China · founded 1980
Shandong Heavy Industry’s dozer shop. The DE26-X3 is an AI electric unmanned bulldozer already on an open-pit dump - the cab is a control room.
- Shotcrete Technologies · Idaho Springs, United States · founded 1980
Shot-Tech remote robotic shotcrete arms for tunnels, mines, slopes, and civil lining - Idaho Springs, CO. Four decades of wet-mix shotcrete gear, nozzles, and field crews.
- FARO · Lake Mary, United States · founded 1981
Laser scanners and the as-built that the superintendent still walks with a tablet.
- Chinougijutsu · Osaka, Japan · founded 1982
OEM-agnostic excavator autonomy kits - hundred-plus machines robotized claimed. Osaka. FDMA firefighting heritage, US inquiry channel open.
- Sarcos · Salt Lake City, United States · founded 1983
Guardian XO and DX. Full-body industrial exo and dexterous remote arms for the job that should not have a person in it.
- 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.
- TML Technik · Monheim am Rhein, Germany · founded 1985
UNIDACHS 2 and 3 series articulated and telescopic remote demolition robots. Monheim am Rhein. Active product pages.
- 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.
- ABB · Zurich, Switzerland · founded 1988
Industrial arms that have quietly become construction printers, prefab welders, and bricklayers. The muscle behind a lot of other logos.
- Aquajet · Halmstad, Sweden · founded 1988
Hydrodemolition robots. Aqua Cutter - high-pressure water on bridges and decks, jackhammers stay in the truck.
- 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.
- Conjet · Österhaninge, Sweden · founded 1989
Hydrodemolition robots. High-pressure water instead of jackhammers - removing bad concrete without wrecking the steel.
- Sany · Changsha, China · founded 1989
Chinese heavy iron and 3D construction printers. The gantry that already prints apartment walls at volume.
- FTS · Toyohashi, Japan · founded 1989
Hercules is an erector-integrated tunnel shotcrete machine; Hercules-AUTO adds millimetre-wave thickness sensing with Maeda and Nishimatsu. Toyohashi. Field intro 2026.
- 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.
- Zoomlion · Changsha, China · founded 1992
Cranes, pumps, and construction automation from Hunan. The other Changsha OEM.
- Gengli · Zhengzhou, China · founded 1992
GHP3017E is an engineering wet-spray trolley - remote boom shotcrete for tunnels, slopes, and civil lining. Zhengzhou. Henan shotcrete OEM catalog.
- 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.
- 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.
- TopTec Spezialmaschinen · Munich, Germany · founded 1998
TopTec 1500 E through 7500 E/D remote demolition robots. Munich. Full range live on the product site.
- SprayWorks Equipment · Canton, United States · founded 1999
Spraybot Ultra SB-2100 applies SPF, polyurea, and coatings on roofs and large flats. Canton, Ohio. Product store and Spray Foam Magazine coverage.
- Inrotech · Odense, Denmark · founded 2000
Adaptive welding robots for heavy steel - ships, modules, and the prefab that construction borrows from yards.
- Autonomous Solutions · Logan, United States · founded 2000
Mobius autonomy for industrial vehicles. Utah, mines, the unmanned loop.
- Giant Equipment · Hefei, China · founded 2000
GTC multifunction remote demolition robots - tracked breakers and shears for confined and hazardous tear-out. Hefei / Jingtian Intelligent. Export demolition fleet.
- ULC Technologies · Hauppauge, United States · founded 2001
Panel Setting Robot and carrier siblings set PV modules with Rosendin on utility-scale yards. Hauppauge, New York. Field trials, not a lab clip.
- 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.
- 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.
- Winsun · Suzhou, China · founded 2003
The company that 3D-printed office buildings when the rest of the industry was still printing garden walls. Large-scale concrete additive manufacturing.
- CHC Navigation · Shanghai, China · founded 2003
Huace GNSS, LiDAR, and the X500 survey UAV. Layout and mapping hardware from Qingpu that already flies construction corridors in 140 countries.
- 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.
- 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.
- Inteco Robotics · Zagreb, Croatia · founded 2004
R Jet series runs autonomous high-pressure water on concrete and steel - hydrodem and surface prep without a jackhammer crew on the wall. Zagreb. Special-construction pedigree claimed across two decades.
- Ekso Bionics · San Rafael, United States · founded 2005
Ekso EVO upper-body exo for overhead work. Arms stay up. Shoulders last the shift.
- Skyform · Gravesend, United Kingdom · founded 2005
Sky Wash is a remote dual-cable facade and glazing cleaner. Gravesend, Kent. Active UK product page - the cradle a window crew used to ride.
- Euro Implementos · Suria, Spain · founded 2005
RDC 22 and siblings are remote demolition robots designed and built in Spain. Suria / Sant Cugat. OEM manuals carry the Euro Implementos name.
- J2E&C · Busan, South Korea · founded 2005
HJ-230 façade painting robot co-developed with Hyundai Engineering - cable-suspended multi-nozzle spray for high-rise exteriors. MOLIT construction new-tech path.
- DJI Enterprise · Shenzhen, China · founded 2006
The default aerial camera on a jobsite. Dock-based autonomous capture for progress, survey, and the weekly flyover a GC actually uses.
- Intelligent City · Vancouver, Canada · founded 2008
Mass-timber robotic production for mid-rise housing. Vancouver, CLT, the factory that still looks like a building.
- 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
- Which construction robotics companies have been around longest?
- This page lists companies founded before 2010, sorted by founding year.
- Which companies are on the established construction robotics companies list?
- Future of Built lists 94 companies here, including Husqvarna, Shimizu, Leica Geosystems, Volvo CE, John Deere, Kajima, Wacker Neuson and Sandvik.
- Where are these companies headquartered?
- By headquarters: United States (19), Japan (16), China (12), Germany (12), Sweden (7).