Facts

• Segment: Construction
• Country: United States
• Founded: 2016
• Website: https://www.builtrobotics.com/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Products
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Team
• Relationships
• Context tags
• Sources

Summary

Built Robotics builds autonomous construction robots for solar and infrastructure jobsites, including RPD 35 pile-driving and RPS 25 pile-stabilizing systems. The company reports $114 million raised, 25-plus commercial deployments and use across the U. S. and Australia, with robots used for pile driving, trenching and earlier earthmoving workflows.

Market context

Built Robotics develops robotic systems for construction equipment, including autonomous pile-driving, pile-stabilizing, trenching and earthmoving workflows for outdoor jobsites.

Products

• RPD 35 - Solar Piling
• RPS 25 - Solar Piling

Facts

• Website: https://www.builtrobotics.com/
• HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
• Founded: 2016
• Segment: Construction
• Funding total: $114M
• Known funding rounds: 1
• Latest funding date: 2022-04-07

Funding

• 2022-04-07 - Series C - $64M - Built Robotics raises USD 64M Series C - source: prnewswire.com

Investors

• Building Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-04-07
• Fifth Wall - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-04-07
• Founders Fund - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-04-07
• NEA - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-04-07
• Tiger Global - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-04-07

Autonomous construction equipment for jobsite workflows

Built Robotics develops autonomy systems for construction equipment. Its market context is construction robotics, where robotic control is applied to heavy machines and field workflows that are difficult to automate with fixed infrastructure.

• Target environment: Construction sites, infrastructure projects, earthmoving sites, solar construction projects and outdoor jobsite environments.
• Deployment model: Construction autonomy model. Built Robotics applies robotic control and autonomy systems to heavy equipment and jobsite workflows rather than selling a general-purpose indoor robot.
• Customer context: Construction companies, infrastructure developers, contractors and project operators looking to automate repetitive or hazardous equipment workflows.
• Workflow context: Autonomous equipment operation, excavation support, trenching, earthmoving, construction productivity and field-machine control.
• Commercial maturity: Built Robotics has public construction robotics products and deployment-oriented positioning. Scaling depends on jobsite readiness, machine compatibility, safety validation, contractor adoption and…
• Market position: Built Robotics sits in the construction robotics lane, focused on bringing autonomy to heavy equipment and field construction operations.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on site variability, safety requirements, equipment integration, contractor workflows, project timelines, regulation, reliability and return on investment for automated jobsite ope…
• Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes autonomous construction equipment, field robotics and jobsite automation.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2026-06-16 - Partnership - Built Robotics and Penn xLAB partner on physical AI for construction - The collaboration focuses on scanning jobsites with mobile robots equipped with sensor suites and building datasets for x…
• 2023-04-27 - Product Launch - Built Robotics launches RPD 35 for solar pile driving - RPD 35 combines layout, pile distribution, driving and as-built capture.
• 2022-04-07 - Funding - Built Robotics raises USD 64M Series C - Tiger Global led the round, bringing Built Robotics total funding to USD 112 million.

Team

• Noah Ready-Campbell - Founder & CEO
• Andrew Liang - Co-Founder & Engineering Director
• Gaurav Kikani - President of Commercial Operations
• Paul Kelly - VP Business Development & General Manager, Australia
• Erol Ahmed - Vice President of Communications

Relationships

• research partner - Research collaboration with Penn xLAB to capture construction-site data and develop physical-AI models for real-world site work.

Context tags

• Construction robotics companies - Peer Group - Built Robotics builds robotic systems for construction jobsites.
• Construction heavy equipment autonomy - Peer Group - Built Robotics transforms heavy equipment into autonomous construction robots.
• Autonomous construction equipment - Peer Group - Built Robotics offers autonomous equipment for solar piling, trenching and earlier earthmoving workflows.
• Construction infrastructure sites - Customer Environment - Built Robotics cites deployments across U.S. and Australian infrastructure jobsites.
• Solar construction robotics - Peer Group - Built Robotics markets RPD 35 and RPS 25 for utility-scale solar construction.
• Physical AI training data - Stack Layer - The Penn xLAB collaboration is framed around construction-site data capture for physical-AI model development.