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Construction robots are helping build homes faster, but humanoid builders are still science fiction
A labour shortage and a housing gap of 1.2 million homes are pushing the building industry toward automation. The real gains right now come not from robots swinging hammers, but from machines that prevent costly mistakes and factories that build homes indoors.
Meet the Robot Bricklayer That Learned the Hard Way About Black Bricks
A U.S. construction startup called Monumental is sending teams of robots to lay bricks on real sites. What it has discovered on the job is reshaping how the industry thinks about automation.
The Invisible Safety Net That Construction Robots Actually Need
Autonomous machines are arriving on building sites faster than the safety systems designed to protect the humans working alongside them. Vision AI is meant to close that gap.
Robots, billions, and a 460% stock pop: the biggest robotics stories of August 2026
From Google DeepMind's newest robot-controlling AI to a Chinese robotics company that stunned investors on its first day of trading, here is what the robotics world was talking about last month.
Driverless Diggers Are Already Moving Earth on Real US Construction Sites
Bedrock Robotics has put fully autonomous excavators to work in Texas and Nevada, with no operator in the cab. Here is what that means for construction workers and the projects they build.
SoftBank bets $200 million on robots that drive diggers
Swiss startup Gravis Robotics just landed what it claims is the biggest funding round in construction robot history, with a kit that bolts onto any excavator and lets it work on its own.
Autodesk puts $1 million into a University of Florida lab that wants robots to build your next home
Florida is short more than 121,000 homes. A new robotics lab and the country's first degree in industrialized construction aim to close that gap with factory-built housing and collaborative robots.
Construction software giant Procore buys drone-and-robot inspection firm DroneDeploy for $845 million
The deal pairs Procore's project management platform with DroneDeploy's drones, ground robots and cameras to replace manual site inspections with AI that can spot problems and act on them automatically.
Brick-Laying Robot Company Monumental Raises $32 Million and Sets Its Sights on the U.S.
The Amsterdam startup's machines have already built walls for more than 100 homes in Europe. Now, armed with fresh funding, it wants to tackle America's construction worker shortage.
This startup just raised $115 million to put robot excavators on building sites
TerraFirma wants one skilled operator to control an entire fleet of diggers and dozers from a screen, making each worker up to three times as productive.
One operator, one button: Xpanner's robot arm now lifts solar panels so crews don't have to
A California startup has turned a standard excavator into an automated solar panel lifter, cutting a ten-person manual crew down to three.