Robots for General Contractors
Robots that general contractors use for layout, inspection and progress tracking.
56 robots · 67 companies · from the Future of Built file
By trade
- Inspection · 35
- Layout · 11
- Aerial · 7
- Survey · 3
Robots
Dusty Robotics
Voliro
LightYX
DJI Enterprise
Invert Robotics
Emesent
ScoutDI- BMR measuring robot
- TX System
- Percepto AIM
- Scout
- Squirrel
- Lionel marking fleet
- IRIS
- Robot Plotter
- SparkE-B
- COROSOLS layout
- NOBORIN
- HOKUSAI
- SumiROBO
- Xiao Mo M10
- Groundhog
- HB1
- Plika printer
- SR-3
- ICM Climber
- Xron ST
- JettyRobot 6
- Pipe Trekker
- Astro
- IF1200A
- Husky A300
- Summit-XL
- Vision 60
- DT46
- Starling 2 Max
- Honey Badger
- Tready
- ANAFI USA
Companies
- Dusty Robotics · Mountain View, United States · founded 2018
Prints full-scale BIM layouts onto slabs so every trade works from the same floor drawing - no chalk lines, no tape.
- 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.
- 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.
- HP SitePrint · Palo Alto, United States · founded 2022
HP’s imaging precision applied to slab layout. Prints MEP and architectural markings directly onto concrete.
- 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.
- 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.
- ANYbotics · Zurich, Switzerland · founded 2016
ANYmal is a rugged quadruped for autonomous industrial inspection - stairs, grate floors, and plants that were never designed for robots.
- 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.
- 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.
- Voliro · Zurich, Switzerland · founded 2019
Tilt-rotor drones that fly ultrasonic probes into contact with steel. Inspection where a rope team used to go.
- Flybotix · Lausanne, Switzerland · founded 2019
Confined-space inspection drones for tanks, ducts, and tunnels - the voids a conventional UAV cannot enter.
- ScoutDI · Trondheim, Norway · founded 2017
Rugged inspection drones for GPS-denied industrial interiors. Norwegian confined-space flying for tanks and plants.
- DJI Enterprise · Shenzhen, China · founded 2006
The default aerial camera on a jobsite. Dock-based autonomous capture for progress, survey, and the weekly flyover a GC actually uses.
- Rugged Robotics · Houston, United States · founded 2018
Layout as a service. A yellow-wheeled printer that puts the drawing on the slab so industrial and commercial jobs stop snapping chalk.
- 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.
- 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.
- Flyability · Lausanne, Switzerland · founded 2014
Elios - a collision-tolerant drone that flies inside tanks, chimneys, and the voids a person should not enter.
- Emesent · Brisbane, Australia · founded 2018
Hovermap LiDAR that flies or walks GPS-denied mines, plants, and unfinished decks.
- Exyn · Philadelphia, United States · founded 2014
Autonomous aerial mapping in GPS-denied space. Mines, plants, the volume a total station cannot see.
- 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.
- Leica Geosystems · Heerbrugg, Switzerland · founded 1819
Hexagon’s survey and reality-capture stack. The control network every layout robot still ties to.
- Invert Robotics · Cork, Ireland · founded 2015
Climbing inspection robots for tanks, blades, and the elevation a rope team used to own.
- JLG · McConnellsburg, United States · founded 1969
Boom lifts - and now Canvas. The access OEM that bought the drywall robot.
- FARO · Lake Mary, United States · founded 1981
Laser scanners and the as-built that the superintendent still walks with a tablet.
- NavVis · Munich, Germany · founded 2013
VLX wearable mapping. Walk the job, leave with a point cloud.
- Percepto · Modi'in, Israel · founded 2014
Dock-based autonomous drones for industrial sites. The flyover that no longer needs a pilot on the roof.
- DEEP Robotics · Hangzhou, China · founded 2017
Quadrupeds for inspection on rough ground. Chinese industrial dogs on plants and sites.
- Energy Robotics · Darmstadt, Germany · founded 2019
Fleet software that runs Spot, ANYmal, and drones on industrial sites as one inspection crew.
- 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.
- Autel Robotics · Shenzhen, China · founded 2014
EVO Max 4T - autonomous mapping and thermal from Nanshan. The other Shenzhen airframe GCs put on a corridor when DJI is not the bid.
- JOUAV · Chengdu, China · founded 2010
VTOL mapping UAVs. The CW-15 covers kilometers of highway and pipeline that a quadcopter battery will not.
- BrightMaster Robotics · Shenzhen, China · founded 2018
bm-robot.com. Shenzhen BrightMaster. Leveling, coating, measuring, and a hoist - 5,000-plus machines on Chinese and overseas decks, not a prototype stand.
- 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.
- Infravision · Buda, United States · founded 2018
TX System - drones, a ground winch, and stringing hardware that pull high-voltage conductor. Powerlink in Queensland, PG&E in California, BC Hydro in British Columbia. Grid construction from Buda, Texas.
- Acuity Robotics · Leeds, United Kingdom · founded 2019
Squirrel is a magnetic climber for towers, ducts, and ferrous steel - camera and thickness up where a rope access crew used to hang. Leeds spin-out. BuiltWorlds Robotics Top 50 in 2026.
- August Robotics · Las Vegas, United States · founded 2018
Lionel marks CAD and BIM layouts on the slab so the chalk line is not the bottleneck. Las Vegas with yards in HK Science Park, Düsseldorf, Melbourne, and Shenzhen. Layout robot, not a survey toy.
- Optimotive · Windsor, Canada · founded 2020
IRIS walks the site for 3D and 360 capture so supers get as-builts without a surveyor shadowing every pour. Windsor, Ontario. EllisDon, Pomerleau, and Borea already ran it on construction and solar QA.
- 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.
- Hardhat Robotics · Santa Clara, United States · founded 2019
SparkE-B remotely energizes large breakers so electricians stay out of the arc-flash zone. Santa Clara. DPR deployments, Automate show, ECM coverage.
- 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.
- Sanshin Building Materials · Toyohashi, Japan · founded 1953
NOBORIN climbs exterior walls on suspension for camera and hammer-tap inspection. Co-developed with Toyohashi University of Technology. The swing a facade inspector used to hang for.
- SquareDog Robotics · Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR · founded 2016
SkyDog and SkyCare climb facades without a gondola for clean, water-tightness, and inspection. Hong Kong landmark deployments. EMSD listed, awards on the shelf.
- Mirai Kikai · Takamatsu, Japan · founded 2004
HOKUSAI marks floor layouts autonomously - rented as SUMIDAS via Nikken, Takenaka co-dev lineage. Kagawa. Sumi-dashi without the chalk walk.
- Hitachi Channel Solutions · Tokyo, Japan · founded 2004
SumiROBO marks CAD/DXF layouts on the floor with Topcon LN-100/150. Tokyo. NETIS listed - Chiyoda Sokki and Nishio Rent All channels. Not Hitachi Construction Machinery.
- Daoshan Intelligent Robot · Foshan, China · founded 2019
Xiao Mo M10 marks indoor floors from BIM/CAD to about +/-1 mm. Foshan. CATL layout case claims on the product page.
- 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.
- HausBots · Birmingham, United Kingdom · founded 2018
HB1 climbs walls for facade inspection; coating spray still in development. Birmingham. Services and product pages live - inspection ships now.
- 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.
- Square Robot · Westborough, United States · founded 2016
SR-3 is an autonomous submersible tank-inspection robot - API 653 / EEMUA 159, FM Approved. Westborough, MA. Inspects aboveground storage tanks on-stream without confined-space entry.
- 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.
- 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.
- JettyRobot · Prague, Czechia · founded 2010
JettyRobot 6 crawls pipes and ducts 350–1,350 mm for inspection, dry-ice/air blast, brush clean, vacuum, and coating - Prague. Rental and sale for industrial, energy, and building MEP pipe work where a person does not fit.
- 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.
- Deep Trekker · Ayr, Canada · founded 2010
Pipe Trekker and DT340-class pipe crawlers for sewer, storm, and industrial line inspection - Ayr, ON. Portable CCTV crawlers and ROVs for underwater and confined infrastructure.
- Freefly Systems · Woodinville, United States · founded 2011
Astro is a U.S.-built commercial hexacopter for survey, inspection, and cinema payloads - Woodinville, WA. Designed, built, and supported in the Pacific Northwest for NDAA-aware enterprise flight.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ghost Robotics · Philadelphia, United States · founded 2015
Vision 60 is a quadruped for industrial and construction-site inspection - Philadelphia Navy Yard. Legs for stairs and rubble where wheeled UGVs stop; cameras and sensors on the back.
- Delair · Toulouse, France · founded 2011
DT46 and sibling fixed-wing UAVs map construction, mining, and linear infrastructure - Toulouse. Long-endurance survey without the multirotor battery swap every few minutes.
- ModalAI · San Diego, United States · founded 2018
Starling 2 Max is a GPS-denied development and inspection drone - San Diego. VOXL compute for indoor and cluttered yards where consumer drones lose the lock.
- MAB Robotics · Poznań, Poland · founded 2019
Honey Badger is a waterproof quadruped for land and shallow water inspection - Poznań. RBR50 2025. Legs where wheeled UGVs stop at the puddle or the stair.
- HEBI Robotics · Pittsburgh, United States · founded 2014
Tready is a rugged tracked mobile robot for stairs, uneven ground, and confined inspection - Pittsburgh. Modular actuators under a deck that walks where wheeled carts stop.
- Parrot · Paris, France · founded 1994
ANAFI USA is a NDAA-aware professional inspection drone made in the USA - Paris HQ, U.S. build for government and enterprise survey. Thermal and zoom for the roof and facade day a crew used to walk.
- 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
- Which robots do GCs use most?
- Layout printers, reality capture robots and inspection drones are common GC tools.
- Which companies are on the robots for general contractors list?
- Future of Built lists 67 companies here, including Dusty Robotics, Boston Dynamics, Gecko Robotics, HP SitePrint, Civ Robotics, FieldAI, ANYbotics and Skydio.
- Where are these companies headquartered?
- By headquarters: United States (24), China (9), Switzerland (5), Canada (4), Japan (4).
- How many of these robots are deployed?
- Of the 56 robots on this page, 54 deployed, 2 pilot, per the Future of Built file.