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2025
In Russia, presented a robot for breaking concrete at a construction site
In November 2025, Setl Group spoke about the use of a robotic installation for dismantling concrete structures. The robot is used at the construction site of the City of Stars residential complex, located in the village of Novosaratovka, Leningrad Region. Read more here.
Robots did not take root at construction sites in Russia: the plasterer robot had to be "caught throughout the apartment," and the dog robots were stolen
The developer "Samolet in connection with the lack of workers in the construction industry uses special robotic systems at its facilities. However, the effectiveness of such devices leaves much to be desired. Anna Akinshina, General Director of the Samolet, spoke about the practice of using robotic builders in early September 2025.
According to her, robots are used at construction sites that are engaged in plaster work. They look like a box that "crawls on the walls" and applies a certain mixture to them. But in practice, such robots need constant control: they can move in the wrong direction, which is why they have to be "caught throughout the apartment."
As another example, Akinshina named dog robots designed to perform video filming on construction sites. However, they were stolen and "dismantled for spare parts."
Akinshina notes that the construction industry in Russia is faced with a "colossal lack of working resources." Moreover, there are not enough workers at construction sites, and not programmers or data experts. In such a situation, "Samolet is forced to introduce means of automation of construction processes. Akinshina emphasizes that robotization and artificial intelligence have huge potential, but the construction industry still needs to be done so that it "is a qualitative increase in productivity, and not an imaginary replacement for human labor." In its current form, robotic assistants did not take root at the construction site due to their shortcomings and the need for improvement.
The Samolet group specializes in integrated residential development projects and the development of IT solutions in real estate. In particular, in 2022, the company announced plans to invest 10 billion rubles in IT. Then it was said that one in four Samolet employees is an IT specialist.[1]
A construction robot is presented that can lay brickwork instead of builders
In August 2025 Technical University of Munich (TUM) , he presented an innovative, construction robot capable of performing brickwork with jewelry accuracy. The robotic system was successfully tested at a real construction site in, Germany demonstrating the possibility of erecting climatically optimized walls. More here
Replacing people with robots at construction sites in St. Petersburg
Robots began to replace people at construction sites in St. Petersburg. This became known in mid-June 2025.
As Vitali Yershov, construction director of Setl Group, told Delovoy Petersburg, robots are used to fill houses, 3D printing and masonry when building low-rise houses.
 | But these are bulky installations that require manipulators. For example, a plasterer robot or a painter. We were offered such a unit: in China it costs $80 thousand, and in Russia - $160 thousand, but it is unclear whether it will be able to provide the proper quality and how many operators it will require, - said Yershov. |  |
Setl Group at the construction site of the Pulse Premier residential complex (Pulse Premier residential complex) in St. Petersburg is checking the work of cyberdogs. The technology can potentially help with monitoring the quality and speed of construction, in particular, when evaluating the performance of the following works: monolith, screed, masonry and pre-cleaning. Yershov noted that the cyberdog can function smoothly in any weather conditions for 4 hours.
According to Stepan Emeradov, product manager of Polis Group of Companies, St. Petersburg really uses construction robots that perform finishing or masonry work. However, the main application was found by the technologies used in the design and control of construction. With their help, it is possible to avoid errors, optimize costs and processes, increase efficiency and reduce construction time, Emeraludov noted.
| | A robot is, in fact, not the smartest employee with zero knowledge, who needs an extremely accurate technological map without double interpretations in order to exclude any deviations from a given algorithm. In fact, documents that clearly regulate the procedure for action are preparation for robotization, similar to personnel training, - said Vitali Yershov.[2] | |
Construction robot that erects walls, performs welding and finishing work without human input launched
The American company RIC Robotics has presented a six-meter construction robot Zyrex, equipped with artificial intelligence and capable of performing complex tasks on construction sites without human input. The robot can perform welding, assembly, finishing work 3D printing and offline. This became known in May 2025. More. here
2024
In Russia, a robot began to be used to dismantle buildings
In October 2024, the operation of robots for dismantling buildings began in Russia, which made it possible to significantly speed up work on the demolition of building structures. As part of the Setl Group project at the Parade Ensemble facility in St. Petersburg, a dismantling robot called ROIN was tested. Read more here.
The world's first roofing robot has been released. VIDEO
On August 20, 2024, Renovate Robotics, based in New York, introduced the Rufus V1 robotic roofing system. According to the creators, the robot is designed to revolutionize one of the most common and dangerous tasks in construction - installing a roof covering. Read more here
2021: Sales begin for robot that builds house out of bricks
On November 26, 2021, the Australian robotic technology company Fastbrick Robotics (FBR) announced the raising of $10 million to organize mass sales of its Hadrian X robots, which can quickly and accurately build brick structures. Read more here.
2018
Drywall-mounting construction robot introduced
At the end of September 2018, the Japanese National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) demonstrated a robot builder HPR-5P. Among other functions, it recognizes plasterboard sheets, picks them up and nails them accurately to the wall using self-screws. Read more here.
Robots start replacing builders at age
In Japan, the trend of replacing builders of age with robots is gaining momentum. However, creating such automated solutions is not easy.
According to Futurism in a publication dated April 25, 2018, people over 65 account for more than a quarter of the Japanese population and it is expected that over the next 40 years this figure will grow to 40%. This is a big problem for industries that will have to look for replacements for workers retiring. In construction, things are perhaps the worst, since here automation is not developing as quickly as in other areas.
According to the agency, by Bloomberg April 2018, industrial robots is used in more than 2 million production facilities around the world. They are widely used in the automotive industry: in the process of assembling machines, an average of five workers account for one each, to the robot according to the International robotics Federation of Robotics.
The introduction of robots on construction sites is complicated by the unpredictability of the environment and the presence of large numbers of people. Therefore, automation in construction is often limited to solving peripheral problems, such as the use of drones to monitor the progress of construction of structures.
Several Japanese construction companies are developing a new class of robots designed for high-rise construction. So, the construction giant Shimizu is testing robots that can weld beams, transport cargo and install ceiling panels.
The head of Shimizu's construction technology division, Masahiro Indo, says that robots will save thousands of hours of human labor, but they will account for only about 1% of the work during the construction of high-rise buildings. Machines capable of working on the floor and walls may appear in the future, but it will be difficult to achieve a 10 percent indicator, given that the most time-consuming stages of construction are carried out inside the building, he stressed.
According to Quang-Cuong Pham, associate professor at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang University of Technology in Singapore, recent advances in deep learning have improved the ability of robots to determine the environment in which they operate, paving the way for the development of directions such as navigation in self-driving cars.
| | There will be more automation in the coming years, but its lion's share will take place outside construction sites, the expert predicts. | |
As Masahiro Indo notes, robots for factories are easier to create because they are in the same places, which is impossible in construction. Shimizu wanted robots to be installed on a moving platform, but most manufacturers say this is impossible, he said.
Construction bots are likely to operate predominantly at night and over the weekend, Indo said, as new technologies have yet to prove that humans can work comfortably and safely side by side with robots. Shimizu is set to launch its construction robots at the Osaka site by October 2018.
At the end of April 2018, the company showed an automatic loader equipped with laser rangefinders for navigation in space. Moreover, the technology differs from that used in self-driving machines. Shimizu also demonstrated a robot that can install ceiling panels. It is capable of lifting objects weighing 30 kg.[3]
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