Robots can make construction sites more efficient and safer, and help with labour shortages. That was the claim from Okibo COO and co-founder Nadav Shuruk at the launch of its…

British fusion investment fund Starmaker One has received a £20 million boost from the UK government to kickstart growth. 

Skanska has deployed the Schindler Robotic Installation System for Elevators (R.I.S.E) at the 105 Victoria Street project in central London. This is the first time this technology has been used in the UK.

AUAR, the pop-up robotic factory start-up, has completed its first building – a two-storey building in Belgium.

Costain has successfully tested a real-time digital assurance system to help improve the on-budget and on-time delivery of tunnel installations.

A consortium involving Costain and the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) has developed a prototype robot to make tunnel infrastructure installation more efficient and safer.

Nuclear decommissioning engineers are testing a Smurf – not one of the little blue people, but a Symbiotic Multi-Robot Fleet (SMuRF).

Ferrovial has tested a setting-out robot from Civ Robotics for outdoor civil works.

A flooring robot developed by an Israeli start-up has undergone proof of concept trials.

HP’s site printing robot, first launched in the US last year, is now available in the UK.

John Sisk is running a 10-week test of HP’s site printing robot on two residential projects in London.

An American robotics 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 combined…

Global construction software giant Nemetschek Group has invested in Munich-based construction robotics start-up Kewazo.

Construction robotics moved on at pace in 2022. And – quite rightly – new robots’ focus was on the work that we don’t want to do.

Laing O’Rourke has formed a strategic partnership with the key body for robotics in Australia.

The rebar-tying robot, TyBot, has achieved a new personal best record number of ties on a single shift, according to its creator, Pittsburgh-based Advanced Construction Robotics.

A system using AI and robotics to automate and improve the economic benefits of recycling could be available for use within construction in 12 months.

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