As cities continue to expand and infrastructure projects grow more ambitious, the construction sector is facing a crippling problem: There aren’t enough workers. The U.S. alone will need to attract ...

Proptech has a snappy technology answer to snap lines. The age-old method of multi-person crews laying out construction site dimensions by snapping chalk lines as part of the surveying process is ...

A straight wall is not necessarily a climate-optimized wall. Depending on the wall's exposure to sun and shade, there is an ideal angle for individual bricks. The calculations come from a digital ...

When Logan Farrell places one of his Rugged Robots on the floor of a commercial construction project, it knows exactly what to do: draw the layout of the building. The robot references 3D computer ...

BOT or NOT? This special series explores the evolving relationship between humans and machines, examining the ways that robots, artificial intelligence and automation are impacting our work and lives.

Flo Mobility is building electric robots that navigate autonomously to make construction sites safer, greener, and more ...

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - A construction robot is getting its footing, using the Kellner Family Athletic Center’s construction site, next to Camp Randall on the UW-Madison campus. Unitree B2 is a ...

An autonomous robot with a large gripper can transform a pile of boulders into huge stone walls without mortar – learning on its own how to place each irregularly-shaped stone as the next building ...

NASA Ames team created and tested prefabricated voxels standardized reconfigurable building blocks. They built a set of 256 of those blocks—extremely strong 3D structures made with a ...