Japanese Construction Robotics Companies
Construction robotics companies headquartered in Japan, with the machines they build and where they work, from the Future of Built file.
17 robots · 18 companies · from the Future of Built file
By trade
- Earthmoving · 4
- Rebar · 3
- Coating · 2
- Layout · 2
- Logistics · 2
- Finishing · 1
- Inspection · 1
- Prefab · 1
- Welding · 1
Robots
Shimizu
Companies
- Komatsu · Tokyo, Japan · founded 1921
Intelligent Machine Control is factory-fitted GPS and blade automation. Machines stop at design grade by themselves.
- 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.
- Topcon · Tokyo, Japan · founded 1932
3D machine control and layout. Dozers and excavators that already know the surface.
- Hitachi Construction · Tokyo, Japan · founded 1910
ICT excavators and autonomous haul. Japanese machine control on dirt that still has to move.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Chinougijutsu · Osaka, Japan · founded 1982
OEM-agnostic excavator autonomy kits - hundred-plus machines robotized claimed. Osaka. FDMA firefighting heritage, US inquiry channel open.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Somic Transformation · Hamamatsu, Japan · founded 2019
SUPPOT is a rough-terrain construction support robot for haul and follow-me work - Hamamatsu. Rental fleet for Japanese civil and building yards; remote or worker-following modes.
Frequently asked questions
- Which construction robotics companies are based in Japan?
- The companies listed on this page are headquartered in Japan according to the Future of Built company file.
- Which companies are on the japanese construction robotics companies list?
- Future of Built lists 18 companies here, including Komatsu, Shimizu, Topcon, Hitachi Construction, Kajima, Taisei, Obayashi and KEN ROBOTECH.
- Where are these companies headquartered?
- By headquarters: Japan (18).
- How many of these robots are deployed?
- Of the 17 robots on this page, 16 deployed, 1 pilot, per the Future of Built file.