Robots for Civil and Heavy Construction
Autonomous machines for earthmoving, roads, tunnels and bridges.
54 robots · 66 companies · from the Future of Built file
By trade
- Earthmoving · 29
- Coating · 10
- Demolition · 3
- Inspection · 3
- Rebar · 3
- Striping · 3
- Drilling · 1
- Layout · 1
- Welding · 1
Robots
Built Robotics
Baubot
Conjet
MX3D
Komatsu
Hofmann
XCMG
- A⁴CSEL
- ROBOMAG
- ASIO
- Gravis RACK
- AIM Rapid Deploy
- Pronto AHS
- RogueX2
- Concept-X
- Hitachi AHS
- AutoMine
- Robot Plotter
- Crewline autonomy kit
- CHINOU excavator autonomy
- BuilderX platform
- Tracer-125
- ARRES Prevent
- R Jet 111
- Hercules
- RTLx-SC3
- Minimec
- GHP3017E
- Wetkret 3
- Potenza
- Mamba
- HMK 130 CS Teleopera
- TerraFirma excavator
- Bobby
- ICM Climber
- Shot-Tech Robotic Arm
- AMV 4200H
Companies
- Built Robotics · San Francisco, United States · founded 2016
Aftermarket autonomy for excavators and pile drivers. The Exosystem bolts onto existing iron in a day.
- 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.
- Gecko Robotics · Pittsburgh, United States · founded 2013
Wall-climbing robots plus Cantilever AI for inspecting boilers, tanks, bridges, and the infrastructure that holds cities up.
- Caterpillar · Irving, United States · founded 1925
Cat Command lets one operator run heavy iron remotely or semi-autonomously - mining, civil, and the big cuts.
- Komatsu · Tokyo, Japan · founded 1921
Intelligent Machine Control is factory-fitted GPS and blade automation. Machines stop at design grade by themselves.
- Civ Robotics · San Francisco, United States · founded 2018
CivDash autonomously stripes roads and civil sites - up to 16 miles of linework in a day, operators out of traffic.
- 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.
- Gravis Robotics · Zurich, Switzerland · founded 2022
RACK retrofits excavators with terrain-aware autonomous digging. Swiss perception stack, existing iron.
- 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.
- Teleo · Palo Alto, United States · founded 2020
Remote operation of standard heavy equipment over the internet. One experienced operator, multiple machines, no relocation.
- Baubot · Vienna, Austria · founded 2018
Fischer Group’s mobile construction robot. Drills, marks, measures, and installs from the digital plan - including inside tunnels.
- Conjet · Österhaninge, Sweden · founded 1989
Hydrodemolition robots. High-pressure water instead of jackhammers - removing bad concrete without wrecking the steel.
- 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.
- Flybotix · Lausanne, Switzerland · founded 2019
Confined-space inspection drones for tanks, ducts, and tunnels - the voids a conventional UAV cannot enter.
- AIM Intelligent Machines · Espoo, Finland · founded 2018
AI retrofit for excavators and loaders. Perception and control that bolts onto iron already in the fleet.
- Kinamics · Santiago, Chile · founded 2021
Chilean robots in Codelco tunnels. Built to keep people out of rockburst zones - mining construction that the Andes actually run.
- Pronto · San Francisco, United States · founded 2017
Autonomy for haul trucks on mines and mass earthmoving. The long, dusty loop that nobody wants to drive at 2 a.m.
- John Deere · Moline, United States · founded 1837
SmartGrade and autonomous construction equipment. The yellow iron that already knows the surface model.
- 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.
- The Boring Company · Bastrop, United States · founded 2016
Prufrock tunnel-boring machines. Not a jobsite mascot - a TBM aimed at civil contractors who still bid tunnels.
- Borum · Aalestrup, Denmark · founded 1951
Road-marking machines with robotic and machine-control options. The civil striping plant, not a parking-lot toy.
- Trimble · Westminster, United States · founded 1978
Earthworks machine control, layout, and the total station that still runs the civil site. The stack most GCs already own.
- Topcon · Tokyo, Japan · founded 1932
3D machine control and layout. Dozers and excavators that already know the surface.
- Liebherr · Bulle, Switzerland · founded 1949
Earthmoving and cranes with operator-assist and machine control. The other yellow iron.
- Hitachi Construction · Tokyo, Japan · founded 1910
ICT excavators and autonomous haul. Japanese machine control on dirt that still has to move.
- JCB · Rocester, United Kingdom · founded 1945
LiveLink, machine control, and hydrogen iron. The backhoe that still shows up on every civil job.
- Epiroc · Stockholm, Sweden · founded 2018
Autonomous drill rigs and underground loaders. Mining construction, not a press-demo arm.
- Sandvik · Sandviken, Sweden · founded 1862
AutoMine loaders and trucks. The underground loop that used to need a person in the cab.
- Aquajet · Halmstad, Sweden · founded 1988
Hydrodemolition robots. Aqua Cutter - high-pressure water on bridges and decks, jackhammers stay in the truck.
- Sany · Changsha, China · founded 1989
Chinese heavy iron and 3D construction printers. The gantry that already prints apartment walls at volume.
- Zoomlion · Changsha, China · founded 1992
Cranes, pumps, and construction automation from Hunan. The other Changsha OEM.
- HD Hyundai · Seongnam, South Korea · founded 1972
Smart construction machine control and concept autonomous excavators. Korean iron, digital grade.
- Bobcat · West Fargo, United States · founded 1958
Compact loaders with machine control and remote options. The machine that still fits through a gate.
- Hofmann · Rödermark, Germany · founded 1952
Road-marking machines. The civil striping plant Europe already knows.
- Autonomous Solutions · Logan, United States · founded 2000
Mobius autonomy for industrial vehicles. Utah, mines, the unmanned loop.
- RCT · Perth, Australia · founded 1975
Remote and autonomous control for mining and earthmoving. Perth, the teleremote cab.
- XCMG · Xuzhou, China · founded 1943
Chinese heavy iron with driverless rollers and pavers already running highway jobs. The fleet that paves without a cab.
- Liugong · Liuzhou, China · founded 1958
Guangxi OEM. Factory-fit 3D machine control on excavators with Leica - grade from the cab, not a aftermarket sticker.
- 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.
- 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.
- BOMAG · Boppard, Germany · founded 1957
ROBOMAG is a cab-less tandem roller that already knows the mat. Fayat iron, Kaiserslautern autonomy, German asphalt.
- 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.
- GMT Robotics · Brondby, Denmark · founded 2018
Mega WeldMate and WeldMate weld rebar mesh and cages adaptively. Brondby. Tunnel-segment welding demos - fab-first but construction steel.
- Tyker · Barneveld, Netherlands · founded 2015
Robot Plotter and striping siblings mark civil layout and road premark from GNSS. Barneveld. Dutch OEM with rental and support live in 2026.
- 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.
- Chinougijutsu · Osaka, Japan · founded 1982
OEM-agnostic excavator autonomy kits - hundred-plus machines robotized claimed. Osaka. FDMA firefighting heritage, US inquiry channel open.
- 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.
- Hammelmann · Oelde, Germany · founded 1949
JETMASTER is a radio-controlled UHP hydrodemolition and surface-prep robot. Oelde. German bridge rehab cases on the books.
- Robotiz3d · Warrington, United Kingdom · founded 2017
ARRES Prevent detects and seals road cracks; ARRES Ultra targets potholes. Warrington / Sci-Tech Daresbury. University of Liverpool spin-out.
- Elgo-Plus · Brzesc Kujawski, Poland · founded 2012
Springer Eco is a battery-electric remote mini-excavator / demolition robot - about 1.1 t, 80 cm wide. Brzesc Kujawski. EU dealer listings live.
- Inteco Robotics · Zagreb, Croatia · founded 2004
R Jet series runs autonomous high-pressure water on concrete and steel - hydrodem and surface prep without a jackhammer crew on the wall. Zagreb. Special-construction pedigree claimed across two decades.
- 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.
- Wacker Neuson · Munich, Germany · founded 1848
RTLx-SC3 is a remote-controlled trench roller with infrared control for compaction in trenches too tight for a ride-on. Munich. Compaction fleet OEMs know the yellow.
- Normet · Iisalmi, Finland · founded 1962
Minimec and Spraymec lines are remote shotcrete robots for tunnels and mines - tracked and wheeled spraying arms with nozzle control. Iisalmi. Underground concrete support staple.
- Gengli · Zhengzhou, China · founded 1992
GHP3017E is an engineering wet-spray trolley - remote boom shotcrete for tunnels, slopes, and civil lining. Zhengzhou. Henan shotcrete OEM catalog.
- 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.
- MEYCO · Winterthur, Switzerland · founded 1929
Potenza is a high-output wet-shotcrete spraying machine with RoboJet manipulator for tunnels and mines. Winterthur lineage under Master Builders Solutions.
- CIFA · Senago, Italy · founded 1928
Mamba is a mobile underground shotcrete sprayer with articulated boom for tunnels and mines. Senago (Milan). Zoomlion-owned concrete equipment OEM.
- 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.
- TerraFirma · Buda, United States · founded 2023
SpaceX-alum retrofit autonomy for excavators, dozers, loaders, and rollers - Robot Ranch HQ in Buda. Live Texas earthwork, site prep, and demolition with remote/semi-autonomous crews.
- 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.
- International Climbing Machines · Ithaca, United States · founded 2001
Vacuum-held climbing robots for dams, bridges, tanks, and towers - NDT, hydroblast, and coating payloads. Ithaca, NY. The rope-access crawl a inspector used to hang for.
- 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.
- 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.
- AMV · Flekkefjord, Norway · founded 1949
AMV 4200H is a truck-mounted high-capacity shotcrete robot for tunnel, mining, and rock support - Flekkefjord. Ecospray nozzle head for wash + spray; siblings 6400 / 7450 in the AMV shotcrete line.
Frequently asked questions
- What civil construction is automated?
- Earthmoving, grading, paving, tunneling and bridge rebar work.
- Which companies are on the robots for civil and heavy construction list?
- Future of Built lists 66 companies here, including Built Robotics, Advanced Construction Robotics, Gecko Robotics, Caterpillar, Komatsu, Civ Robotics, Toggle Robotics and Gravis Robotics.
- Where are these companies headquartered?
- By headquarters: United States (22), China (7), Germany (6), Japan (6), Sweden (4).
- How many of these robots are deployed?
- Of the 54 robots on this page, 42 deployed, 9 pilot, 3 production, per the Future of Built file.