Construction Robotics News
Latest Construction Robotics news and analysis — 18 articles tagged Construction Robotics on The Robotics Media.
- ASI, SoftBank Form JV and Take $225M Bet on Autonomous Construction — — SoftBank Group has invested $225M in Autonomous Solutions Inc and formed a joint venture to develop fully autonomous construction equipment at scale.
- Bedrock Robotics Deploys Fully Autonomous Excavators on U.S. Infrastructure Sites — — San Francisco startup Bedrock Robotics has moved retrofitted excavators to full autonomy on live U.S. jobsites for Sundt Construction, Champion Site P...
- Gravis Robotics Bags $200M SoftBank-Led Series A At $1B Valuation — — Swiss ETH Zurich spinout Gravis Robotics closed a $200 million Series A from SoftBank, minting Europe's newest robotics unicorn as it scales retrofit...
- Ruhr University Fires Up CREATE: A Three-Robot Cell That Makes A Precast Concrete Panel In Three Hours — — Germany's Ruhr University Bochum has inaugurated CREATE — a globally unique robotic cell where three industrial robots weld rebar, pour concrete and o...
- Shimizu Launches Full-Scale AI Humanoid Robot Program for Construction Sites — — Japanese contractor Shimizu Corporation has kicked off full-scale development of Physical AI humanoid robots and painting robot arms for construction...
- SoftBank Weighs Deal For Swiss Excavator-Autonomy Startup Gravis — — SoftBank is weighing a deal for Swiss ETH Zurich spinout Gravis Robotics, whose retrofit Rack and Slate kits give standard excavators autonomous earth...
- Gritt Exits Stealth With $32.4M To Bring Physical AI To Solar Farm Construction — — San Francisco startup Gritt launched publicly with $32.4M in pre-seed and Series A funding to bolt physical AI onto existing construction equipment, s...
- Monumental Bags $32M Series B To Scale Autonomous Bricklaying Robots — — Amsterdam-based Monumental raised a $32M Series B led by Khosla Ventures to scale its autonomous bricklaying robots and the Atrium AI platform that ru...
- TerraFirma Raises $115M Series A For Semi-Autonomous Construction Robots — — Ex-SpaceX engineers' Austin startup closes a $115M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins to scale a fleet of retrofitted excavators, dozers and loaders that...
- Netherlands Opens First Humanoid Application Centre At MICS Schiedam — — The Humanoid Application Centre at Schiedam's Mechatronics Innovation Campus is Europe's newest hub for putting humanoid robots to work in constructio...
- All3 Raises $25M to Automate Construction With Legged Robots — — All3 raised a $25M seed led by RTP Global to scale an integrated construction platform built around Mantis, a four-legged autonomous on-site assembly...
- Built Robotics, Penn Team Up On Construction Physical AI — — Built Robotics and the University of Pennsylvania's xLAB are partnering to build a world foundation model for construction safety, using a new data-co...
- Buildroid AI Brings Model-Based Bricklaying Robots to U.S. Construction Sites — — Robotics startup Buildroid AI plans to begin its first U.S. construction projects in 2026, deploying model-based block-laying systems trained in NVIDI...
- Rebar Raises $14M Series A for Computer Vision in Construction — — Rebar has raised $14 million in Series A funding for computer-vision software that reads construction blueprints to automate take-offs, cutting quote...
- Caterpillar Rolls Out Autonomous Excavators, Dozers, And Haul Trucks At CES 2026 — — At CES 2026, Caterpillar unveiled a sweeping autonomous construction lineup — excavators, dozers, loaders, haul trucks, and compactors — built on thre...
- Xpanner Raises $18M Series B for Construction Automation-as-a-Service — — Xpanner has raised $18 million in a Series B led by Korea Investment Partners to scale its retrofit physical AI kits that turn construction equipment...
- August Robotics Raises $30M Series B for Construction Drilling — — August Robotics has closed a $30M Series B led by Big Pi Ventures to scale autonomous drilling robots for hyperscale data centers and prefabricated co...
- AES Maximo Robot Achieves 100 Megawatts Solar Installation Milestone — — AES Corporation's Maximo construction robot has successfully installed 100 megawatts of solar capacity, marking a major milestone in automated renewab...