Jaibot still on BuiltWorlds Top 50 - BIM holes in the deck

BuiltWorlds’ 2026 Robotics Top 50 still lists Jaibot under Hilti: an autonomous ceiling-drilling robot for MEP installs, developed with Norwegian robotics firm nLink. It reads BIM-coordinated plans, navigates to each drill point, and cuts anchor holes with millimeter-class precision so large commercial and data-center decks are not weeks of overhead hammer work.

Hilti’s launch file (Oct 2020, PR Newswire / ENR): Jaibot is a semi-autonomous, cordless ceiling drill for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing. Operators remote-drive between zones; within reach the arm drills from the digital plan with dust extraction. Positioning uses the Hilti PLT 300 total station; job files come from Revit or AutoCAD via Hilti cloud and the PLC 400 tablet.

ENR covered the same unveil: holes in a roughly six-foot work envelope, six-axis arm, progress syncing back to the design system so the office sees what was drilled. Overhead concrete drilling wrecks shoulders. Jaibot is Hilti’s published fleet answer — still the BuiltWorlds Top 50 cue in 2026.