Facade and Window Robots
Robots that install, clean or maintain building facades and glazing.
20 robots · 25 companies · from the Future of Built file
By trade
- Facade · 13
- Inspection · 4
- Coating · 2
- 3D Printing · 1
Robots
Skyline Robotics
Lucid Bots
Serbot
PaintUP
Sanshin Building Materials
SquareDog Robotics
KITE Robotics
hyCLEANER
Skyform
Roboprint
Elid
Companies
- Raise Robotics · San Francisco, United States · founded 2018
Multipurpose platform for high-risk install work - curtainwall brackets, overhead drilling, facade layout on high-rises.
- Vertico · Eindhoven, Netherlands · founded 2017
Robotic 3D concrete printing for architectural formwork-free elements. Dutch design-to-print for facades and structure.
- Skyline Robotics · Tel Aviv, Israel · founded 2017
Ozmo washes high-rise glass from a BMU platform. Facade cleaning without sending a person over the edge.
- Branch Technology · Chattanooga, United States · founded 2014
Cellular fabrication - robots print freeform lattice that becomes facade, formwork, or structure. Chattanooga, not a coastal demo.
- Apellix · Jacksonville, United States · founded 2014
Tethered spray drones that coat high-rise facades and infrastructure. Winner of AkzoNobel Paint the Future. The skyscraper job without a swing stage.
- Lucid Bots · Charlotte, United States · founded 2018
Sherpa is a drone that washes and coats exteriors. Charlotte-built, sold to contractors who already own a pressure washer and a lift.
- Odico · Odense, Denmark · founded 2012
Factory-on-the-fly robotic hot-wire and milling cells for formwork and facade molds. Danish offsite, not a press-demo arm.
- Invert Robotics · Cork, Ireland · founded 2015
Climbing inspection robots for tanks, blades, and the elevation a rope team used to own.
- Serbot · Sion, Switzerland · founded 2013
GEKKO facade and solar-cleaning robots. Swiss climbing gear for the elevation.
- Renovate Robotics · Brooklyn, United States · founded 2021
Rufus is a cable-driven arm that lays asphalt shingles on steep roofs. Brooklyn Navy Yard. CertainTeed on the sheet. The crew stays off the slope.
- PaintUP · Lyon, France · founded 2018
Laser-guided telescopic carrier that cleans, strips, paints, and drills facades. France. Active service ops with OPPBTP safety work behind it.
- 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.
- KITE Robotics · Oldenzaal, Netherlands · founded 2012
Four-cable autonomous facade and window cleaning robot for towers past 200 m. Oldenzaal. Commercial systems shipping, not a concept reel.
- hyCLEANER · Gronau, Germany · founded 2010
facadeBRUSH, solarROBOT, and glassROBOT clean facades, PV, and glass roofs. Gronau since 2010. Clean Pro Expo 2026 - active customers, not a prototype.
- 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.
- Roboprint · Gyeongsan, South Korea · founded 2014
ArtBOT prints facade murals from a gondola path; P-BOT handles exterior coating. Gyeongsan. PyeongChang 2018 pedigree, product pages live.
- 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.
- Builder Assist · Toulouse, France · founded 2023
Surface Assist bolts a perception-driven cobot arm onto Haulotte MEWPs for façade drill, sand, clean, and paint. Toulouse. French Tech raise and Contech Connect 2026.
- 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.
- WPS · Incheon, South Korea · founded 2018
ROLLOT is a wire-guided remote façade roller-painting robot proven on Hoban Construction high-rise demos with Samhwa Paints. Vertical paint without a swing-stage crew.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Frequently asked questions
- What do facade robots do?
- They install panels or glazing, or clean and inspect exteriors, reducing work at height.
- Which companies are on the facade and window robots list?
- Future of Built lists 25 companies here, including Raise Robotics, Vertico, Skyline Robotics, Branch Technology, Apellix, Lucid Bots, Odico and Invert Robotics.
- Where are these companies headquartered?
- By headquarters: United States (6), France (4), South Korea (3), Netherlands (2), United Kingdom (2).
- How many of these robots are deployed?
- Of the 20 robots on this page, 17 deployed, 3 pilot, per the Future of Built file.