Construction Robots in Pilot Programs
Construction robots currently in pilot deployments, according to the Future of Built file.
54 robots · 54 companies · from the Future of Built file
By trade
- Logistics · 13
- Earthmoving · 8
- Coating · 6
- Finishing · 6
- 3D Printing · 6
- Facade · 3
- Rebar · 3
- Welding · 3
- Layout · 2
- Demolition · 1
- Masonry · 1
- Prefab · 1
- Exos · 1
Robots
Monumental
Apellix
Flo Mobility
BOMAG
LimX Dynamics
AIM Intelligent Machines
Gropyus
Luyten 3D
HD Hyundai
- Libra-001A
- Sunrise
- Sage
- Panel Setting Robot
- i-paint X L
- LAYERED spray
- Vertis gantry
- Autonomous Mobile Tying Robot
- DokaXbot Lift
- Crewline autonomy kit
- BuilderX platform
- Tracer-125
- COROSOLS layout
- OG1
- Surface Assist
- Fabrica grouting robot
- Plika printer
- Evoconstructor
- Coral printhead
- TITAN
- Azimuth grinder
- ROLLOT
- HMK 130 CS Teleopera
- StructureBot printer
- Mantis
- Buildex
- TCS Pro
- ROBEE
- HERA
- Phoenix
Companies
- Monumental · Amsterdam, Netherlands · founded 2021
Autonomous bricklaying robots coordinated by Atrium, a construction OS that connects the design model to the wall.
- 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.
- Finish Robotics · Pittsburgh, United States · founded 2021
ANDY sprays coatings and plaster autonomously. Another Pittsburgh shop, another trade that wrecks lungs.
- Raise Robotics · San Francisco, United States · founded 2018
Multipurpose platform for high-risk install work - curtainwall brackets, overhead drilling, facade layout on high-rises.
- 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.
- Bedrock Robotics · San Francisco, United States · founded 2024
Waymo-alumni autonomy for 20–80 ton excavators. Supervised mass excavation already moving tens of thousands of cubic yards.
- Flo Mobility · Bengaluru, India · founded 2021
Electric autonomous material movers for Indian construction sites. Last-mile site logistics without a diesel mule.
- Pictobot · Eindhoven, Netherlands · founded 2016
Interior painting robot from the Netherlands. The commercial bay that still gets rolled by hand.
- Persona AI · Houston, United States · founded 2024
Industrial humanoids for shipyards, fab shops, and construction. NASA and IHMC DNA. HD Hyundai is the first yard. The weld is the job - not a laundry demo.
- 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.
- JLG · McConnellsburg, United States · founded 1969
Boom lifts - and now Canvas. The access OEM that bought the drywall robot.
- BOMAG · Boppard, Germany · founded 1957
ROBOMAG is a cab-less tandem roller that already knows the mat. Fayat iron, Kaiserslautern autonomy, German asphalt.
- LimX Dynamics · Shenzhen, China · founded 2022
Nanshan humanoids on live decks. TRON 2 is the modular dual-arm platform ZINOVA put on formwork and rebar - a general-purpose torso doing trade work, not a kung-fu demo.
- AIM Intelligent Machines · Espoo, Finland · founded 2018
AI retrofit for excavators and loaders. Perception and control that bolts onto iron already in the fleet.
- Apis Cor · Melbourne, United States · founded 2014
Mobile 3D concrete printers that sit on the plot and extrude the walls. Florida shop, global demos.
- Gropyus · Vienna, Austria · founded 2020
Robotic housing factories. Vienna-designed, German-built panels that assemble on site.
- Luyten 3D · Melbourne, Australia · founded 2019
Australian 3D construction printers. Housing and disaster-response walls from a mobile cell.
- Bobcat · West Fargo, United States · founded 1958
Compact loaders with machine control and remote options. The machine that still fits through a gate.
- HD Hyundai · Seongnam, South Korea · founded 1972
Smart construction machine control and concept autonomous excavators. Korean iron, digital grade.
- 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.
- 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.
- Arn Autonomy · San Francisco, United States · founded 2024
GRID ties rebar on commercial decks so wrists stay off the mat. San Francisco. Rebrand from Spacer Robotics - same yard, same tying job.
- Sitegeist · Munich, Germany · founded 2025
Modular AI robots for concrete renovation and selective removal on live structures - hydrodem and abrasive without a pre-built 3D model. Munich. €4M pre-seed Feb 2026.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- LAYERED · Zurich, Switzerland · founded 2022
Autonomous spray robot that lays protective layers and surface finishes while moving. Switzerland. Gebert Ruf Stiftung funded - early commercial, real spray path.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Crewline · Buda, United States · founded 2023
Autonomy kit that retrofits vibratory drum rollers - dozers on the 2026 roadmap. Buda, Texas. $7.1M seed. The iron you already own, unsupervised on the pass.
- BuilderX Robotics · Beijing, China · founded 2020
AI-assisted remote and autonomous heavy-equipment control for jobsites. Beijing. Teleoperation platform with autonomy path - CB Insights profiled, corporate site live.
- Pave Robotics · San Francisco, United States · founded 2024
Tracer-125 seals asphalt cracks autonomously. YC W25. Pilot fleet rolling in 2026 - the wand work a crack crew used to walk every lane for.
- Corosols · Ben Guerir, Morocco · founded 2022
Total-station-guided BIM floor-layout tracing robot on a RaaS model. Ben Guerir / UM6P. Casablanca award 2026, JESA pilot, BBC Arabic coverage.
- Origin · San Francisco, United States · founded 2024
OG1 is a general-purpose interior construction robot with modular tools for drywall finish and paint. Artila Robotics Inc. Accel-backed. Live multi-family and commercial floors.
- 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.
- Fabrica AI · Singapore, Singapore · founded 2021
Autonomous tile grouting and cleaning robots for residential and commercial fit-out. Singapore. BEAMP and HDB-adjacent finishing automation.
- Plika · Gwacheon, South Korea · founded 2022
CAD/DXF floor-layout printer with laser tracking for grid and line marking on the slab. Gwacheon. RoboWorld 2024 debut - centimeter accuracy, compact frame.
- 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.
- 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.
- Azimuth AI Construction · Singapore, Singapore · founded 2024
Autonomous concrete grinding and wall handling robots for Singapore jobsites. Azimuth-branded floor finishers with adaptive leveling and dust extraction claims.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- ROBEE Contech · Beer Sheva, Israel · founded 2022
ROBEE is a semi-autonomous floor-tiling robot with adhesive mix/spread and 7-DOF place - Israel. Patents in IL/US/CH/EU. Targets ~200 m²/day vs expert hand tile rates on live interior finishes.
- Sol Robotics · San Ramon, United States · founded 2023
HERA is a long-reach robotic arm for commercial interior painting and elevated finishes - San Ramon. Built to take the ladder day off the painter without locking the cell to one bay.
- 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.
Frequently asked questions
- What does pilot status mean?
- The robot is working on early projects with partners before broad commercial release.
- Which companies are on the construction robots in pilot programs list?
- Future of Built lists 54 companies here, including Monumental, Apellix, Finish Robotics, Raise Robotics, Cyphra Autonomy, Bedrock Robotics, Flo Mobility and Pictobot.
- Where are these companies headquartered?
- By headquarters: United States (25), South Korea (4), China (3), Germany (3), Austria (2).
- How many of these robots are deployed?
- Of the 54 robots on this page, 54 pilot, per the Future of Built file.