Danish 3D printer maker Cobod and Technical University (TU) Braunschweig have unveiled a construction robot that prints concrete and sprays shotcrete with a robotic arm. The arm can also sand…

A Dutch robotics company founded last year has seen its concrete drilling robots put into active use on two major projects recently. BauBot Services, a subsidiary of international fastenings specialist…

Building big, utility scale solar farms is extremely labour intensive. Workers have to lift many thousands of heavy panels, placing them carefully for installation. In the US, contractors struggle to…

UK construction tech company Automated Architecture (Auar) has secured £5.1m in new funding to commercialise its robotic “pop-up micro-factory” system, in which a robotic arm equipped with machine vision and…

Saudi Arabia’s economic development giga project Neom is investing in a Danish construction robotics start-up, GMT Robotics, in a bid to use more robotics in its building projects. The size…

Strabag has tested autonomous machines that can lay asphalt on a section of Austria’s A9 motorway between Graz and Slovenia. The units use satellite navigation and are able to recognise…

Spain’s Acciona has trialled the use of an autonomous robot at the design layout of a hospital project in Portugal. According to the company, the machine was able to complete…

Webuild is setting up France’s first robotic ashlar-block factory to line the inside of Lot 2 of the Turin-Lyon high-speed rail tunnel. The company said the plant’s intensive automation will…

The April episode of the 21CC podcast is out, featuring a play by Swiss high-tech manufacturer ABB to promote site-based robotic micro-factories for UK affordable housing. High-tech companies down through…

A team at Switzerland’s ETH Zürich university has unveiled an autonomous excavator that can build dry ​stone walls from randomly shaped boulders and concrete rubble. It picks rocks from a…

Australian contractor Broad Construction is to build a Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing Centre in the campus of a Queensland university. Technical and Further Education Queensland (TAFE) is working on the…

Australian construction robotics company FBR has begun testing the latest iteration of its Hadrian X bricklaying robot. The machine now takes the form of a three-axle truck with a 32m-long…

Ferrovial has joined a number of construction firms using “stakeout robots” on its projects, including for outdoor civil works. The rolling machines draw full-scale plans on the surface or floor…

American robotics and technology company Sarcos has completed a pilot project that uses robots to install photovoltaic panels. During the field trial, an autonomous vehicle with a Sarcos robotic arm…

Advanced Construction Robotics has followed its rebar-tying robot, Tybot, with the launch of Ironbot, a robot that can lift, carry and place nearly 2,300kg bundles of rebar in a transverse or longitudinal orientation.

Liechtenstein-based equipment maker Hilti has announced a partnership with American construction robotics company Canvas to develop an automated drywalling solution. Hilti, which had a revenue of $6.5bn in 2021, will…

Five professors in Purdue University’s Polytechnic Institute have received $150,000 from the National Science Foundation for a year’s research on human-robot collaboration on construction sites. The researchers aim to create…

Construction robots moved on at pace in 2022. And – quite rightly – new robots’ focus was on the work that we don’t want to do, freeing up human resource…