Reality Capture Robots and Scanning
Robots that carry laser scanners and 360 cameras to document as-built conditions.
18 robots · 21 companies · from the Future of Built file
By trade
- Inspection · 9
- Earthmoving · 3
- Finishing · 2
- Aerial · 1
- Rebar · 1
- Striping · 1
- Welding · 1
Robots
Boston Dynamics
MYRO
Inrotech
Pictobot
DEEP Robotics
Emesent
Gravis Robotics
Scaled Robotics
Companies
- Boston Dynamics · Waltham, United States · founded 1992
Spot is now a regular on jobsites - scanning, safety walks, and as-built capture on terrain wheels cannot handle.
- FieldAI · Irvine, United States · founded 2023
FieldAI (Field Foundation Models) run on Spot and other platforms - hundreds of live sites, three continents. DPR, Big-D, McLaren, Innovo in Dubai, Caterpillar. BuiltWorlds’ highest-rated robotics company among GCs in 2026.
- Gravis Robotics · Zurich, Switzerland · founded 2022
RACK retrofits excavators with terrain-aware autonomous digging. Swiss perception stack, existing iron.
- MYRO · Singapore, Singapore · founded 2019
AI-guided interior finishing robots for coatings and surface treatment across large commercial floor plates in Asia.
- Scaled Robotics · Barcelona, Spain · founded 2016
Mobile robots that scan the jobsite and compare it to the BIM model. Quality control that does not wait for the punch list.
- Inrotech · Odense, Denmark · founded 2000
Adaptive welding robots for heavy steel - ships, modules, and the prefab that construction borrows from yards.
- Doxel · Redwood City, United States · founded 2014
Autonomous scanning that walks the job and scores percent-complete against the model. Reality capture that does not wait for a Thursday flyover.
- Emesent · Brisbane, Australia · founded 2018
Hovermap LiDAR that flies or walks GPS-denied mines, plants, and unfinished decks.
- Bobcat · West Fargo, United States · founded 1958
Compact loaders with machine control and remote options. The machine that still fits through a gate.
- FARO · Lake Mary, United States · founded 1981
Laser scanners and the as-built that the superintendent still walks with a tablet.
- DEEP Robotics · Hangzhou, China · founded 2017
Quadrupeds for inspection on rough ground. Chinese industrial dogs on plants and sites.
- Pictobot · Eindhoven, Netherlands · founded 2016
Interior painting robot from the Netherlands. The commercial bay that still gets rolled by hand.
- Unitree · Hangzhou, China · founded 2016
Hangzhou quadrupeds. The B2 walks plant stairs and unfinished decks that a wheeled scanner will not - industrial inspection, not a living-room demo.
- CHC Navigation · Shanghai, China · founded 2003
Huace GNSS, LiDAR, and the X500 survey UAV. Layout and mapping hardware from Qingpu that already flies construction corridors in 140 countries.
- Shantui · Jining, China · founded 1980
Shandong Heavy Industry’s dozer shop. The DE26-X3 is an AI electric unmanned bulldozer already on an open-pit dump - the cab is a control room.
- JOUAV · Chengdu, China · founded 2010
VTOL mapping UAVs. The CW-15 covers kilometers of highway and pipeline that a quadcopter battery will not.
- 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.
- FJ Dynamics · Shenzhen, China · founded 2017
FJD PaintMaster Parking stripes parking lots from a digital scan. Shenzhen with global offices. Scan-to-stripe workflow, not a push cart with a wand.
- Avestec · North Vancouver, Canada · founded 2016
Xron ST is an ultra-compact magnetic NDT crawler for pipes, vessels, and dense ferrous assets - North Vancouver. UT, EMAT, PAUT, and visual on coatings; LiDAR-SLAM and AveSoft reporting for industrial and infrastructure inspection.
- 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.
- 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.
Frequently asked questions
- What is reality capture?
- Capturing the physical site as point clouds or imagery so it can be compared to the design model.
- Which companies are on the reality capture robots and scanning list?
- Future of Built lists 21 companies here, including Boston Dynamics, FieldAI, Gravis Robotics, MYRO, Scaled Robotics, Inrotech, Doxel and Emesent.
- Where are these companies headquartered?
- By headquarters: United States (7), China (6), Spain (2), Australia (1), Canada (1).
- How many of these robots are deployed?
- Of the 18 robots on this page, 15 deployed, 3 pilot, per the Future of Built file.