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…

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 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…

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…