Contractor will jump from pilots to full deployment of a jobsite robotics platform developed with robotics startup NeXtera.

The pandemic has created new challenges. But it’s also accelerated the adoption of technologies that are helping AEC companies work safer, faster, and smarter. Read on to learn some surprising ways robotics are being used on the jobsite.

“Ideas and solutions are the easy part,” says Ricardo Khan, senior director of innovation at Mortenson Construction. It’s “the process” that is the real challenge. Khan’s midday keynote captured one of the key themes of the second day of the virtual ENR FutureTech conference—the need to identify the problems in your construction process before you start throwing technology at them

Boston Dynamics’ autonomous dog-shaped robot, Spot, is known for its ability to traverse complex terrain and is now being used by construction companies for inspections and LiDAR site scans.

ENR’s annual conference draws a crowd looking for better approaches to data security and sharing, with an eye on cost

Growing up in heavy construction, and running projects for his dad during summers, one thing Gregory Penza says he learned is that the only way to compete in construction is to come up with new and better ways to do things.

Study predicts increased automation will displace craftworkers by 2057, but robots can't do everything.

 A New York company and two utilities have a cost-effective solution to the nation’s aging underground infrastructure: a robot that crawls through cast-iron natural-gas pipelines and replaces their deteriorating joints, effectively renewing the pipes for up to 50 years.

In 2015, Stephen Muck was sitting in a Carnegie Mellon University seminar on robotics, and he could not stop thinking about how the technology might benefit the construction industry, which suffers from a labor shortage, especially for backbreaking work like tying rebar. 

Fifteen guest builders-in-residence are taking advantage of new workshop and design space in Boston’s Seaport Innovation District.