Robots for Painting Contractors
Painting and coating robots built for commercial and industrial painting contractors.
33 robots · 46 companies · from the Future of Built file
Robots
PaintJet
BrightMaster Robotics
Obayashi
Les Companions
ConBotics
ROICO Solutions
LAYERED
Roboprint
Robotiz3d
AI Robotics Solutions
Normet
Companies
- PaintJet · Hendersonville, United States · founded 2021
Bravo hangs on a standard lift and paints warehouses, data centers, and ship hulls as a service. Foreman Technologies. The person stays on the ground.
- 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.
- 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.
- Obayashi · Tokyo, Japan · founded 1892
Minato GC. Fireproof spray on steel - the coat a person used to hang in a bosun’s chair to put on. Next-generation construction system, not a lab demo.
- Pace Robotics · Bengaluru, India · founded 2020
Centa Painter does putty, sand, primer, and paint on interior walls and ceilings. Bengaluru shop. Commercial deployments from Dec 2025 - the finish a crew used to spray and sand by hand.
- Les Companions · Marcq-en-Barœul, France · founded 2018
PACO is a collaborative painter cobot - the robot sprays the hard, repetitive coat while the painter keeps the edges and decisions. Marcq-en-Barœul. New builds and big renovations.
- ConBotics · Berlin, Germany · founded 2020
MalerRoboter is a lightweight modular interior airless painter - rental and sale, TechnoMaler service. Berlin manufacturing. The coat a painter used to spray until the shoulders gave out.
- ROICO Solutions · Odense, Denmark · founded 2021
Bobby is a collaborative wall and ceiling painter on a RaaS model. Odense. Live Danish jobs in warehouses, malls, and sports halls.
- 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.
- PaintUP · Lyon, France · founded 2018
Laser-guided telescopic carrier that cleans, strips, paints, and drills facades. France. Active service ops with OPPBTP safety work behind it.
- 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.
- WEIBUILD · Shanghai, China · founded 2016
PMC plastering and putty/paint robots that finish interiors at scale. Shanghai. Millions of square meters claimed, competition awards, live catalog.
- Fulltime Robotics · Hangzhou, China · founded 2018
P600 Max and the spray line do putty, paint, and grind indoors - screed and trowel siblings beside them. Hangzhou. Five million-plus square meters claimed; Singapore and HK projects.
- Legend Robot · Shenzhen, China · founded 2017
Interior latex paint, tile lay, and floor grind robots from Shenzhen. BATIMAT 2026 exhibitor. Singapore HDB cases claimed.
- 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.
- 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.
- Roboprint · Gyeongsan, South Korea · founded 2014
ArtBOT prints facade murals from a gondola path; P-BOT handles exterior coating. Gyeongsan. PyeongChang 2018 pedigree, product pages live.
- Magenta Robotics · Seoul, South Korea · founded 2018
GT Painter and Advanced GT Painter coat interiors and high-reach walls autonomously. South Korea. SCX 2025 exhibitor - product pages live.
- Derutu · Beijing, China · founded 2017
DM plastering robot with spray and grind siblings for wall finish fleets. Beijing (Zhijiantu / Derutu). Active Chinese product site.
- IMB Robotics · Istanbul, Turkey · founded 2015
RoboJET is a magnetic UHP hydroblasting crawler for steel and concrete. Istanbul. VacuumJET sibling in the catalog.
- SprayWorks Equipment · Canton, United States · founded 1999
Spraybot Ultra SB-2100 applies SPF, polyurea, and coatings on roofs and large flats. Canton, Ohio. Product store and Spray Foam Magazine coverage.
- 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.
- AI Robotics Solutions · Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR · founded 2019
Paint-bot sprays indoor putty, primer, and topcoat autonomously. Hong Kong. CITF/CITAC listings and product pages.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- J2E&C · Busan, South Korea · founded 2005
HJ-230 façade painting robot co-developed with Hyundai Engineering - cable-suspended multi-nozzle spray for high-rise exteriors. MOLIT construction new-tech path.
- 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.
- 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.
- NLB · Wixom, United States · founded 1971
Self-Guided SpinJet is a tracked UHP water-jetting robot for coating and pavement-marking removal with line-sensing guidance. Wixom, Michigan. Interpump Group.
- Qlayers · Delft, Netherlands · founded 2017
10Q / 10QX magnetic crawler coats large steel tanks and industrial assets automatically - up to hundreds of m²/h with lower overspray. Delft. Infrastructure coating automation.
- AKA Robotics · Shenzhen, China · founded 2018
WallHiker TSW-01 is a magnetic crawler painting robot for tank and steel surfaces - remote spray without scaffolding. Shenzhen. Steel asset coating.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Krosaki · Kitakyushu, Japan · founded 1918
REX-ROBO automates refractory maintenance on ladle slide gates and related hot-steel work cells - Kitakyushu (K-GenesisX). Heat-shrouded industrial arms that take crews out of the hottest refractory exchange jobs.
- 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.
- 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.
- AMBPR · Allevard, France · founded 2018
GreenDock is an autonomous MEWP-class mobile robot for wash, blast, paint, and inspection on large vertical surfaces - Allevard. Shipyard and industrial hull work with telescopic tool head.
- GN Smart Control · Langfang, China · founded 2015
Magnetic wall-climbing spray-painting robots for ship hulls and storage tanks - Langfang (Houston sales office). Climbing fleet also covers roughening, rust removal, and grinding on ferrous skins.
- 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.
Frequently asked questions
- Do painting robots replace painters?
- They handle large flat areas and repetitive spraying while painters do prep, cutting-in and quality checks.
- Which companies are on the robots for painting contractors list?
- Future of Built lists 46 companies here, including PaintJet, Apellix, BrightMaster Robotics, Obayashi, Pace Robotics, Les Companions, ConBotics and ROICO Solutions.
- Where are these companies headquartered?
- By headquarters: United States (11), China (8), France (4), South Korea (4), Germany (3).
- How many of these robots are deployed?
- Of the 33 robots on this page, 27 deployed, 6 pilot, per the Future of Built file.