Structural Steel Robots
Robots that fabricate, weld, bolt and erect structural steel.
17 robots · 24 companies · from the Future of Built file
By trade
- Welding · 4
- Coating · 3
- Demolition · 3
- Inspection · 3
- Earthmoving · 1
- Layout · 1
- Prefab · 1
- Exos · 1
Robots
Gecko Robotics
Husqvarna
Voliro
MX3D
LightYX
German Bionic
Obayashi
Acuity Robotics
IMB Robotics
Inteco Robotics
AKA Robotics
Companies
- Brokk · Skellefteå, Sweden · founded 1976
Remote-controlled demolition robots for interiors, nuclear, and high-risk teardown. The original steel collar on a compact chassis.
- 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.
- Conjet · Österhaninge, Sweden · founded 1989
Hydrodemolition robots. High-pressure water instead of jackhammers - removing bad concrete without wrecking the steel.
- Husqvarna · Huskvarna, Sweden · founded 1689
DXR remote demolition robots. Compact, electric, operator at a safe distance - the other steel collar in the teardown bay.
- 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.
- Voliro · Zurich, Switzerland · founded 2019
Tilt-rotor drones that fly ultrasonic probes into contact with steel. Inspection where a rope team used to go.
- Inrotech · Odense, Denmark · founded 2000
Adaptive welding robots for heavy steel - ships, modules, and the prefab that construction borrows from yards.
- Stud Automation · Pune, India · founded 2020
Robotic welding cells for construction steelwork. Indian fabrication yards automating the cage and the frame.
- John Deere · Moline, United States · founded 1837
SmartGrade and autonomous construction equipment. The yellow iron that already knows the surface model.
- Terminailer · Greenfield, United States · founded 2014
Wall-panel subcomponent assembler from Construction Industry Innovations. One operator, six coil guns, no software stack - filmed here because it is a steel collar.
- 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.
- 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.
- German Bionic · Augsburg, Germany · founded 2016
Cray X powered exoskeleton. The lift, the carry, the back that used to go out on Thursday.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- IMB Robotics · Istanbul, Turkey · founded 2015
RoboJET is a magnetic UHP hydroblasting crawler for steel and concrete. Istanbul. VacuumJET sibling in the catalog.
- 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.
- Fabrica AI · Singapore, Singapore · founded 2021
Autonomous tile grouting and cleaning robots for residential and commercial fit-out. Singapore. BEAMP and HDB-adjacent finishing automation.
- 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.
- 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.
- MLROBOT · Hangzhou, China · founded 2019
ML1 is an all-terrain magnetic crawler welding robot (Meng Robot / MLROBOT) for tanks, steel structures, ships, and containers - China. Trackless mobility with laser seam tracking for multipass field welds.
Frequently asked questions
- Where are steel robots used?
- In fabrication shops for cutting and welding, and on site for welding, bolting and handling.
- Which companies are on the structural steel robots list?
- Future of Built lists 24 companies here, including Brokk, Gecko Robotics, Conjet, Husqvarna, MX3D, Voliro, Inrotech and Stud Automation.
- Where are these companies headquartered?
- By headquarters: United States (5), Sweden (3), China (2), Denmark (2), Japan (2).
- How many of these robots are deployed?
- Of the 17 robots on this page, 15 deployed, 2 production, per the Future of Built file.