Robotic Arms in Construction
Industrial robot arms adapted for building tasks such as printing, welding and assembly.
23 robots · 31 companies · from the Future of Built file
By trade
- Logistics · 7
- Coating · 4
- 3D Printing · 4
- Welding · 3
- Rebar · 2
- Facade · 1
- Finishing · 1
- Striping · 1
Robots
CyBe Construction
Skyline Robotics
RoadPrintz
LimX Dynamics
XtreeE
Schindler
Roborn
Putzmeister
Enabled Robotics
Companies
- Promise Robotics · Toronto, Canada · founded 2021
Factory-as-a-Service: off-the-shelf industrial robots turned into AI production lines for homebuilders.
- Toggle Robotics · New York, United States · founded 2018
Industrial robots pre-assemble rebar cages offsite for transit, bridges, and energy - then deliver them to the deck.
- 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.
- MX3D · Amsterdam, Netherlands · founded 2014
Multi-axis robotic metal printing. The stainless steel canal bridge in Amsterdam was the proof. Wire-arc additive manufacturing for structure.
- Bright Dream Robotics · Foshan, China · founded 2018
Country Garden’s robotics arm. Interior finishing, masonry, and site robots deployed at Chinese housing scale - thousands of units, not pilots.
- Fangshi Technology · Suzhou, China · founded 2019
Laser screed robots for concrete leveling. The floor that has to be flat before anyone else shows up.
- Skyline Robotics · Tel Aviv, Israel · founded 2017
Ozmo washes high-rise glass from a BMU platform. Facade cleaning without sending a person over the edge.
- RoadPrintz · Cleveland, United States · founded 2018
A robotic arm on an F-550 that paints crosswalks, arrows, and MUTCD symbols. No stencils. First unit sold to Missouri DOT.
- Odico · Odense, Denmark · founded 2012
Factory-on-the-fly robotic hot-wire and milling cells for formwork and facade molds. Danish offsite, not a press-demo arm.
- Path Robotics · Columbus, United States · founded 2014
Autonomous welding cells that see the joint and weld it. No teach-every-pass. Ohio steel.
- Lincoln Electric · Cleveland, United States · founded 1895
The weld OEM that now ships robotic cells into fab shops feeding construction steel.
- Epiroc · Stockholm, Sweden · founded 2018
Autonomous drill rigs and underground loaders. Mining construction, not a press-demo arm.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Robotic Maintenance Vehicles · Perrysburg, United States · founded 2018
CrackPro RMV puts a FANUC arm on a truck for robotic crack sealing. Pioneer Industrial Systems / SealMaster partnership. ConExpo showcase.
- 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.
- 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.
- Putzmeister · Aichtal, Germany · founded 1958
Wetkret 3 is a compact tracked shotcrete robot for small tunnel sections - SA 9.1 spraying arm, remote nozzle. Aichtal. Underground concrete spraying staple.
- 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.
- Shotcrete Technologies · Idaho Springs, United States · founded 1980
Shot-Tech remote robotic shotcrete arms for tunnels, mines, slopes, and civil lining - Idaho Springs, CO. Four decades of wet-mix shotcrete gear, nozzles, and field crews.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- How are robot arms used in construction?
- Mounted on tracks, mobile bases or gantries for printing, welding, assembly and finishing.
- Which companies are on the robotic arms in construction list?
- Future of Built lists 31 companies here, including Promise Robotics, Toggle Robotics, CyBe Construction, Vertico, XtreeE, MX3D, Bright Dream Robotics and Fangshi Technology.
- Where are these companies headquartered?
- By headquarters: United States (12), China (4), Netherlands (3), Denmark (2), France (2).
- How many of these robots are deployed?
- Of the 23 robots on this page, 18 deployed, 3 pilot, 2 production, per the Future of Built file.