3 robots mechanizing construction sites, plus 3 to watch | ConstructionDive

The future has arrived. Robots, once the fodder of sci-fi movies and futuristic novels, now are working alongside humans to augment and, at times, replace them. Manufacturing has been increasingly more automated for years, but it’s only more recently that construction applied to its jobsites the computer engineering of robotics. QY Research Inc. valued the global construction robotics market at $200 million in 2017 and found that projects to which it applies will be valued at $420 million by the end of 2025 with a 10% compound annual growth rate from 2018 to 2025.