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Building sites are making room for robots.
Bricklaying, layout, printing and inspection robots are moving from demonstrations to paid work on live projects. See what is changing, then plan your own with The Humanoid Group.
Caterpillar teams with FieldAI on jobsite inspection and digital twins
· Partnership
Caterpillar announced a collaboration with FieldAI, whose robot-agnostic autonomy models turn jobsite data into insights. Early uses include autonomous safety inspections and digital twins of jobsites and facilities, built with NVIDIA computing. The release names no machines or sites, and FieldAI says it has deployments at hundreds of sites worldwide.
Why it matters: Equipment makers now treat inspection robots and site digital twins as part of the fleet. Contractors already scanning sites with robots should ask which data formats and machines the new tools will connect to.
Gravis Robotics raises $200M to make heavy equipment autonomous
· Funding
Gravis Robotics, an ETH Zurich spinoff founded in 2022, raised $200 million in Series A funding from SoftBank. It sells retrofit hardware and software that let excavators and other machines from makers such as Caterpillar, Hitachi, Volvo and John Deere work autonomously, with live 3D scanning of the dig and detection of people.
Why it matters: Retrofit kits can bring autonomy to machines a contractor already owns instead of waiting for new fleets. Ask how much of the work is supervised and which equipment brands are supported before pricing a pilot.
Monumental's brick-laying robots have now worked on more than 100 homes
· Deployment
Amsterdam-based Monumental runs a three-robot system that places bricks and mortar using cranes, grippers and computer vision, working as a subcontractor on live Dutch projects. It reports brickwork on over 100 homes plus a school, a hotel and canal walls, after a $32 million round in July led by Khosla Ventures.
Why it matters: Bricklaying robots are being sold as a service, not only as machines. A contractor short of masons can try one wall package without buying equipment, as long as quality checks are agreed first.
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