Layout & marking
A layout robot prints the BIM model onto the slab to millimetre accuracy, thousands of square metres a day, so nobody chalks lines by hand and the trades build to one source of truth.
Solution · Construction
The building site is short of hands. Put robots on the repetitive work.
Layout, rebar, drilling, survey, material moves: the repetitive, back-breaking parts of a build that a crew no longer has the people for. werob integrates construction robots from real manufacturers onto your site, so the trade keeps the skilled work and the robot takes the repetition.
81.890
construction companies in Germany
Solution · Construction
The work is there. The people are not.
Germany's construction industry will be short more than 100,000 skilled workers by 2030 on the HDB's own 2022 forecast, and the productivity of the sector has barely moved in decades. The answer on site is not a humanoid that does everything; it is a specific robot for a specific repetitive task, printing the layout, tying the rebar, drilling the ceiling grid, walking the survey, so the trade's remaining people spend their hours on the work that actually needs judgement.
What the robot runs
Rebar & drilling
A rebar-tying gantry ties intersections several times faster than by hand; a BIM-driven robot drills the ceiling grid overhead. The repetitive, injury-heavy tasks come off the crew.
Autonomous survey
A legged robot walks the site on a fixed route with a laser-scan payload, capturing the same waypoints every pass, so progress and as-built are a trend rather than a one-off scan.
Material & earthworks
Retrofit autonomy for earthmovers and autonomous transport move material on the repetitive routes, keeping operators for the work that still needs them.
Hardware match
- Dusty FieldPrinter
- ACR TyBot
- Hilti Jaibot
- Boston Dynamics Spot
Connectors
- BIM 360 / ACC
Standards
- DGUV
- EU 2023/1230
- VOB/C
- DSGVO / GDPR
Built for construction
| What the operator described | Hardware match | Cadence | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| “Layout robot prints the BIM model onto the slab to millimetre accuracy, so the trades set out from one source of truth instead of a tape and chalk line.” | Dusty FieldPrinter · HP SitePrint | Per floor | Available |
| “Rebar-tying robot works a deck on a gantry, tying intersections several times faster than by hand; a Jaibot drills the ceiling grid overhead.” | ACR TyBot · Hilti Jaibot | Per pour | Available |
| “Legged robot walks a fixed survey route off-hours with a laser-scan payload, so as-built and progress are captured the same way every week.” | Boston Dynamics Spot · Leica payload | Weekly | Available |
Construction is a newly available werob solution. Hardware and cadence are representative; per-site scope and savings are set in your spec. The figure above describes the addressable market in Germany (81,890 construction companies, HDB, June 2025), not live deployments.
Construction questions
- Is this a robot that builds the whole house?
- No, and that is the point. A single machine that does everything is still a research demo. What works on site today is a specific robot for a specific repetitive task: printing the layout, tying rebar, drilling the ceiling, walking the survey. werob integrates those real machines rather than promising one robot that replaces a crew.
- Which robots are we actually talking about?
- Real, shipping hardware, matched to the task: Dusty FieldPrinter and HP SitePrint for layout, ACR TyBot for rebar, Hilti Jaibot for ceiling drilling, Boston Dynamics Spot with a Leica or Trimble payload for survey, Built Robotics for earthworks, and FBR or Construction Robotics for masonry. werob is manufacturer-independent and picks the platform from the task.
- Where does werob stop and wedrone start?
- If it drives, walks or stands on the ground, it is werob: layout, rebar, drilling, survey rovers, material moves. If it flies, it is wedrone: progress capture from the air, photogrammetry survey, BIM as-built comparison and facade inspection. Most sites want both, and they are specified together.
- How bad is the labour shortage really?
- On the HDB's 2022 forecast, German construction will be short more than 100,000 skilled workers by 2030, against roughly 81,890 construction companies (HDB, June 2025), most of them small. Robots do not fix hiring, but they take the repetitive tasks off the people you do have.
- Is construction robotics live yet?
- Construction is a newly available werob solution. The deployment path is the same eight steps as every other solution: first spec in 48 hours, first robot on the site in eight weeks.
Start
Take the repetitive work off a crew you can't fully staff.
Describe the site and the task in plain language. First spec in 48 hours, first robot on site in eight weeks.