Lift manufacturer Schindler has retrofitted a Swiss hospital to make it easier for robots to move laundry, food, medical equipment and waste around it. The 30 automated guided vehicles (AGVs)…

Shimizu, one of Japan’s largest contractors, is conducting field trials of humanoid robots controlled by AI on construction sites in response to severe labour shortages and to boost productivity. The…

Autonomous robots are helping to deliver Cleora, a 55-acre residential printed development in Salida, Colorado with 106 homes. California’s RIC Robotics deployed two autonomous printing systems to print 65 of…

McLaren Construction will deploy autonomous four-legged robots, powered by technology from FieldAI, on its sites. Initially, McLaren will use Boston Dynamics Spot the robot dogs with FieldAI’s technology to capture…

US engineering giant Bechtel has created the role of Senior Vice President of Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) Transformation to deliver projects using AI, robotics and digital technologies. Taking up…

Bouygues Construction has signed a partnership with French company Innodura to bring more robotics to construction sites. A team from the two businesses will begin developing robots and a dedicated…

“Baubot”, a drilling robot from German multinational manufacturer, fischer, has secured a Guinness World Records title by drilling 3,717 holes in concrete in 24 hours. The certified record attempt over…

ABB Robotics is working with San Francisco’s Cosmic Buildings to build modular structures on site in Pacific Palisades as the Los Angeles neighbourhood recovers from January’s devastating wildfires. The AI-enabled…

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…