Material Handling Robots for Jobsites
Robots that lift and carry heavy materials such as glass, board and block.
55 robots · 70 companies · from the Future of Built file
By trade
- Logistics · 38
- Coating · 3
- Exos · 3
- Inspection · 2
- Masonry · 2
- 3D Printing · 2
- Drilling · 1
- Aerial · 1
- Layout · 1
- Rebar · 1
- Welding · 1
Robots
COBOD
KEWAZO
PaintJet
Volvo CE
Flo Mobility
LightYX
Zoomlion
CSC Robotics
Schindler
GoLe Robotics
- Sunrise
- Sage
- Panel Setting Robot
- Module Install
- WLTR
- i-paint X L
- Atlas Printer
- DokaXbot Lift
- Minitrucks Standard
- Strider
- Campa-600
- Groundhog
- PV Module Mounting Robot
- InstallerBot
- KAICON PV Installation Robot
- Saturn MF400
- PV Installation Robot
- TITAN
- Robot Tank
- Mantis
- Buildex
- Gravion
- TCS Pro
- IF1200A
- HELP-E
- SUPPOT
- ER-FLEX
- Pickle
- Digit 5
- HKM1800
- Hircus
Companies
- 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.
- Skydio · San Mateo, United States · founded 2014
AI obstacle-avoiding drones for site capture, progress, and inspection through the clutter that makes construction unflyable for most UAVs.
- Volvo CE · Gothenburg, Sweden · founded 1832
Autonomous and electric haulers and excavators. Autonomy as an earnings line, not an innovation booth.
- 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.
- KEWAZO · Munich, Germany · founded 2016
LIFTBOT is a battery-powered robotic hoist that rides scaffolding and delivers materials to height - the carry that eats most of scaffold assembly time.
- 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.
- 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.
- GoLe Robotics · Seoul, South Korea · founded 2021
Cloud-planned autonomous material transport tied to the digital model. Korean site logistics, not a forklift with a sticker.
- Daedong Robotics · Seoul, South Korea · founded 2020
Autonomous mobile robots for material movement on live, unstructured Korean jobsites.
- Flo Mobility · Bengaluru, India · founded 2021
Electric autonomous material movers for Indian construction sites. Last-mile site logistics without a diesel mule.
- PaintJet · Hendersonville, United States · founded 2021
Bravo hangs on a standard lift and paints warehouses, data centers, and ship hulls as a service. Foreman Technologies. The person stays on the ground.
- 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.
- Cyphra Autonomy · Fenton, United States · founded 2023
Autonomous jobsite haulers. No training, no setup - rented to contractors who are tired of sending a person for a pallet.
- 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.
- German Bionic · Augsburg, Germany · founded 2016
Cray X powered exoskeleton. The lift, the carry, the back that used to go out on Thursday.
- HeroWear · Nashville, United States · founded 2019
Apex exosuit. Soft, wearable, for the lift-and-carry that still wrecks lumber yards and mechanical rooms.
- Zoomlion · Changsha, China · founded 1992
Cranes, pumps, and construction automation from Hunan. The other Changsha OEM.
- JLG · McConnellsburg, United States · founded 1969
Boom lifts - and now Canvas. The access OEM that bought the drywall robot.
- Verve Motion · Cambridge, United States · founded 2020
SafeLift powered exo for the lift. Warehouse and construction carry without the strain claim.
- 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.
- QuiMo · Aachen, Germany · founded 2020
Compact indoor robots that handle heavy tools on the floor plate. German, corridor-sized.
- Noble Machines · Sunnyvale, United States · founded 2024
Moby is a general-purpose industrial humanoid - 50 lb payload, construction and factory floors. Formerly Under Control Robotics. First units already on a Fortune Global 500 floor.
- 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.
- 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.
- Luminous Robotics · Boston, United States · founded 2023
LUMI S4 lays solar modules on the rack. Boston-built, already on Australian farms for Bouygues and ENGIE - the pick-and-place a crew used to do on their knees in the heat.
- 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.
- Cosmic Robotics · San Francisco, United States · founded 2024
Cosmic-1A puts ~90 lb PV modules on the rack so the crew is not on the table all day. Dogpatch, San Francisco. BuiltWorlds Construction Tech 2026 Demo Day winner - live solar farms, not a booth.
- Gritt · Belmont, United States · founded 2024
Physical AI attachments on skid steers and forklifts for pick-and-place, assembly, and haul on utility-scale solar and infrastructure. Belmont, California. Top-10 US EPC deployments claimed.
- Libra Robotics · Newark, United States · founded 2025
Libra-001A moves, places, aligns, and fastens PV modules so the solar crew is not on the table all day. Newark, California. YC Summer 2026. US field demos live.
- Max Robotics · Arlington, United States · founded 2023
Maximo is a tracked AI robot that places and clamps PV modules on utility-scale arrays. AES-incubated brand. Twenty megawatts-plus installed claims - service model live, not a booth demo.
- Charge Robotics · San Leandro, United States · founded 2021
Sunrise is a portable on-site bay factory that assembles and places utility-scale solar. San Leandro / Oakland. YC S21. MIT News coverage - crew model, not a paper robot.
- Planted Solar · Oakland, United States · founded 2020
Sage and the prior fleet deploy solar arrays on uneven ground so terrain does not kill the schedule. Oakland. Tens of megawatts already; Sage launches late 2026.
- 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.
- Swap Robotics · Kitchener, Canada · founded 2018
Electric autonomous robots that lay solar modules - staging and vegetation siblings in the same yard. Kitchener–Waterloo. Product pages live through 2025–26.
- 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.
- i-paint X · Morfelden-Walldorf, Germany · founded 2023
i-paint X L paints industrial halls semi-autonomously on a service model. Morfelden-Walldorf. Field tests from April 2025, Darmstadt pilot, 2026 product roadmap.
- 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.
- 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.
- Minitrucks Robotics · Venissieux, France · founded 2015
Remote compact material-handling robots for jobsites that still run like crowded yards. Venissieux. French product pages live.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Leapting · Huzhou, China · founded 2019
Tracked PV module mounting robot with AFR transport sibling. Huzhou / Shanghai. pv magazine Australia Culcairn coverage.
- Solar-LIT · Xiamen, China · founded 2018
InstallerBot handles and places PV modules on utility arrays. Xiamen. Xinjiang rate claims on the product pages.
- KAICON / KZC Tech · Shenzhen, China · founded 2018
Intelligent outdoor PV module installation robot series. Shenzhen plus Ningxiang, Hunan. Inner Mongolia and Ningxia project claims.
- Sunpure Intelligent Technology · Hefei, China · founded 2017
Saturn MF400 fits and installs utility-scale PV modules on tracker and fixed-tilt. Hefei. Product and news pages live.
- 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.
- RoboForce · Milpitas, United States · founded 2023
TITAN is an AI-powered all-terrain mobile manipulator for precision industrial and construction tasks - 40 kg payload, modular end-effectors. Milpitas. Seed 2025.
- Roborn · Hong Kong, Hong Kong · founded 2017
Robot Tank is a modular jobsite AMR for cone deploy, patrol, and arm payloads on civil and building sites. Hong Kong Science Park. Traffic and site-logistics automation.
- Carbon Origins · San Francisco, United States · founded 2021
Bobby is an AI + VR-supervised multipurpose compact track loader for solar, earthwork, dust control, and material handling. San Francisco roots, Minneapolis ops heritage. Hire-the-robot model on live sites.
- 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.
- 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.
- Trinabot · Changzhou, China · founded 2018
Buildex tracked PV install robots with onboard forklift and place arm - up to ~60 modules/hour on fixed-tilt and tracker layouts. Changzhou, Trina Solar lab pedigree. MEA/EU/AU expansion.
- BotCrew · Duluth, United States · founded 2021
Gravion is a purpose-built ultra-low-profile diesel UGV for utility-scale solar and construction yards - Duluth, MN. RaaS leases across US solar sites for cable pull, microtrench, mow, snow, and material haul with 20+ attachments.
- 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.
- 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.
- Inspired Flight · San Luis Obispo, United States · founded 2018
IF1200A is an NDAA-compliant heavy-lift hexacopter for industrial and public-safety payloads - San Luis Obispo. Universal payload rail for survey cameras, LiDAR, and jobsite sensors.
- 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.
- Borobo · Paris, France · founded 2019
HELP-E is an all-terrain autonomous carrier co-developed with Eiffage for jobsite material haul - Paris. Follow-me and autonomous modes; about 80 kg class loads so the crew keeps walking free.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Pickle Robot · Cambridge, United States · founded 2018
Pickle unloads floor-loaded trailers with vision and a mobile arm - Cambridge, MA. RBR50 2025. The same unload problem shows up on jobsite deliveries when cartons hit the dock without a pallet.
- Agility Robotics · Salem, United States · founded 2015
Digit is a bipedal humanoid for tote and material handling in commercial spaces - Salem, OR. RBR50 2025 Robot of the Year class deployments in warehouses; the walk-and-carry day a laborer used to own.
- 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.
- 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.
- Sanctuary AI · Vancouver, Canada · founded 2018
Phoenix-class humanoids for industrial tasks including welding demos - Vancouver. Carbon-copy work that still needs dexterous hands on the torch or the plug.
- Capra Robotics · Aarhus, Denmark · founded 2015
Hircus is an outdoor AMR for perimeter, inspection, and yard logistics - Aarhus. RBR50 2024. Four wheels past the curb a indoor AMR cannot finish; VELUX-class yard routes already ran it.
Frequently asked questions
- Why automate material handling?
- Lifting and carrying cause many strain injuries; robots reduce manual handling.
- Which companies are on the material handling robots for jobsites list?
- Future of Built lists 70 companies here, including COBOD, Advanced Construction Robotics, Skydio, Volvo CE, Construction Robotics, KEWAZO, Shimizu and CSC Robotics.
- Where are these companies headquartered?
- By headquarters: United States (30), China (9), Germany (4), Japan (4), Canada (3).
- How many of these robots are deployed?
- Of the 55 robots on this page, 36 deployed, 17 pilot, 2 production, per the Future of Built file.