Gantry 3D Printers for Buildings
Gantry-style construction printers that frame the building footprint.
32 robots · 36 companies · from the Future of Built file
By trade
- 3D Printing · 28
- Logistics · 2
- Facade · 1
- Rebar · 1
Robots
ICON
COBOD
WASP
CyBe Construction
14Trees
Constructions-3D
Sany
Tvasta
Hyperion Robotics
Luyten 3D
INSTATIQ
Companies
- ICON · Austin, United States · founded 2017
Robotic concrete printing for homes, barracks, and neighborhoods. Titan prints structural walls up to 27 feet high.
- COBOD · Taastrup, Denmark · founded 2017
The most widely deployed 3D construction printers. BOD systems are printing in 35+ countries with an open-source material approach.
- 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.
- SQ4D · Patchogue, United States · founded 2017
ARCS prints footings, slabs, and walls on-site with ordinary store-bought concrete. Built the largest permitted 3D-printed home on record.
- CyBe Construction · Oss, Netherlands · founded 2013
Mobile 3D concrete printers on a tracked arm. Prints on-site or in the yard, then the element goes on a truck.
- Vertico · Eindhoven, Netherlands · founded 2017
Robotic 3D concrete printing for architectural formwork-free elements. Dutch design-to-print for facades and structure.
- XtreeE · Rungis, France · founded 2015
Large-scale robotic 3D concrete for complex architectural components. French computational design, printed at building scale.
- WASP · Massa Lombarda, Italy · founded 2012
Crane WASP prints houses from earth, clay, and agricultural waste. The TECLA habitats are the postcard. The printer is the point.
- Hyperion Robotics · Espoo, Finland · founded 2019
Robotic 3D printing of reinforced concrete infrastructure - stormwater, foundations, the unglamorous work that cities actually buy.
- 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.
- 14Trees · Lilongwe, Malawi · founded 2014
Holcim joint venture printing schools and housing in Malawi, Kenya, and Zimbabwe on COBOD gantries. Classroom walls in 18 hours.
- Branch Technology · Chattanooga, United States · founded 2014
Cellular fabrication - robots print freeform lattice that becomes facade, formwork, or structure. Chattanooga, not a coastal demo.
- Constructions-3D · Nantes, France · founded 2017
MaxiPrinter - a mobile gantry that 3D-prints buildings on site. French hardware, not a pavilion.
- Apis Cor · Melbourne, United States · founded 2014
Mobile 3D concrete printers that sit on the plot and extrude the walls. Florida shop, global demos.
- Black Buffalo 3D · Columbia, United States · founded 2020
NEXCON gantry printers for housing. New Jersey, bagged mix, walls that already have a permit trail.
- Luyten 3D · Melbourne, Australia · founded 2019
Australian 3D construction printers. Housing and disaster-response walls from a mobile cell.
- Tvasta · Chennai, India · founded 2016
India’s construction 3D printer. IIT Madras DNA, houses and toilets already standing.
- MudBots · St. George, United States · founded 2017
Utah concrete printers sold as a machine you can own. Gantry, mixer, walls.
- Diamond Age · Phoenix, United States · founded 2018
Robotic home construction. Phoenix, printed and assembled housing aimed at the shortage, not a pavilion.
- Aeditive · Hamburg, Germany · founded 2019
Shotcrete 3D printing for precast. German cells that print the element the yard used to form.
- BE More 3D · Castellón, Spain · founded 2019
Spanish 3D construction printing. Housing and social projects already standing.
- Twente Additive · Enschede, Netherlands · founded 2018
Dutch concrete printers. TAM gantries for on-site and factory print.
- Azure Printed Homes · Riverside, United States · founded 2021
Recycled-plastic printed ADUs. California accessory units from a printer, not a framing crew.
- Sany · Changsha, China · founded 1989
Chinese heavy iron and 3D construction printers. The gantry that already prints apartment walls at volume.
- Bina Robotics · London, United Kingdom · founded 2022
Autonomous concrete 3D-printing gantry. UK shop aiming at housing volume.
- 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.
- INSTATIQ · Munich, Germany · founded 2021
P1 Progress One prints on-site with ready-mix concrete on a mobile arm - about 26 m reach. Bavaria projects with Putzmeister and ZUBLIN. Multiple German jobs 2025-26.
- 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.
- Vertis 3D · Dallas, United States · founded 2020
Gantry printer that lays monolithic reinforced concrete frames on site as Construction-as-a-Service. US multi-state permit claims. Early commercial CaaS, not a lab print.
- RIC Technology · Torrance, United States · founded 2018
RIC-PRIMUS is a large-scale on-site 3D construction printing robot. Torrance, California. World of Concrete 2025 launch - same Torrance 3DCP family as RIC Robotics, listed once.
- Relu Robotics · Beijing, China · founded 2021
Tracked PV install robots that grip, place, and fasten modules on utility-scale farms. Zhongguancun, Beijing. Claims 60–100 panels an hour across deserts and plateaus.
- Evocons · Las Palmas, Spain · founded 2023
Evoconstructor is a multifunctional print/pour/level/finish platform for on-site concrete work. Canary Islands roots, Spanish patents claimed. Gantry 3DCP on live pads.
- Coral Construction Technologies · Prague, Czechia · founded 2023
Robotic 3D concrete printing systems for walls and structural elements - printhead branded Coral on the nozzle. Prague. WOC 2026 exhibitor.
- X-Hab 3D · State College, United States · founded 2015
MX3DP is a tracked, container-mobile robotic-arm concrete printer with onboard mix/pump - State College, PA. Military and disaster-relief demos; prints to ~25 ft with hydraulic lift reach.
- StructureBot · Colorado Springs, United States · founded 2021
Portable large-format gantry 3D construction printers for homes, retaining walls, and civil elements. Colorado Springs PBC. Robotics-as-a-service and builder-operated kits.
- Cognibotics · Lund, Sweden · founded 2013
HKM1800 is a long-reach parallel-kinematics robot for high-speed picking - Lund. RBR50 2025. Reach that puts the arm into the bay without a second gantry.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a gantry 3D printer?
- A printer on a frame that spans the building footprint and moves the nozzle along three axes.
- Which companies are on the gantry 3d printers for buildings list?
- Future of Built lists 36 companies here, including ICON, COBOD, Advanced Construction Robotics, SQ4D, CyBe Construction, Vertico, XtreeE and WASP.
- Where are these companies headquartered?
- By headquarters: United States (15), China (3), Netherlands (3), France (2), Germany (2).
- How many of these robots are deployed?
- Of the 32 robots on this page, 18 deployed, 8 production, 6 pilot, per the Future of Built file.