Built Robotics
Built Robotics builds AI guidance systems and aftermarket robotics kits that turn standard heavy construction equipment into autonomous machines, focused on utility-scale solar piling, trenching, and earthmoving.
Best for: Solar EPCs, renewable energy developers, and civil contractors automating repetitive heavy-equipment tasks like pile driving, trenching, and earthmoving on large jobsites.
Last reviewed 6/2/26
- Integrations
- Installs on heavy equipment from Caterpillar, Hitachi, John Deere, and Volvo
- Property types
- Utility-scale solar farms, civil and infrastructure construction sites
- Geography served
- United States and Australia
How Built Robotics uses AI[2][3][5]
Built Robotics retrofits standard excavators with its Exosystem kit, combining RTK GPS, IMUs, LiDAR, and 360-degree cameras with onboard AI so the machine drives itself. The system fuses sensor data to localize on a jobsite and autonomously surveys, distributes, and drives piles or digs trenches between preset GPS points, then generates as-builts.
- • Exosystem aftermarket kit adds autonomy to existing heavy equipment from Caterpillar, Hitachi, John Deere, Volvo and others
- • Sensor fusion of RTK GPS, IMUs, laser rangefinders and LiDAR for precise positioning and movement
- • RPD 35 robotic pile driver autonomously surveys pile locations, distributes piles, drives piles, and generates as-builts for utility-scale solar
- • Autonomous trenching robot digs between predetermined GPS points
AI type: Computer vision and sensor-fusion autonomy (robotic perception and motion control)
Legacy platform API: unknown MCP: unknown
Key numbers[7][8][5]
- • Blattner three-year agreement deploying dozens of AI-powered robots
- • robots already active on five Blattner solar projects
- • Robotic piling deployed on the ~250 MW Goorambat East Solar Farm (~500,000 panels) near Benalla, Victoria, Australia in 2025
- • Company states RPD 35 can construct utility-scale solar foundations up to five times faster than traditional methods
- • Acquired concrete-automation firm Roin Technologies in 2023
Credibility[5][6][8]
- Founders
- Co-founded in 2016 by Noah Ready-Campbell (CEO, ex-Google) and Andrew Liang.
- Customers
- Blattner (a Quanta Services company, three-year agreement deploying dozens of robots across U.S. solar projects), Black & Veatch, Mortenson, and a deployment supporting a ~250 MW / 500,000-panel solar farm in Victoria, Australia with Bouygues Construction Australia and Equans.
- Investors
- Raised approximately $112M across Series A-C from Tiger Global, NEA, Next47, Founders Fund, Building Ventures, and Presidio Ventures.
Founded
2016
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, USA
Stage
Series C
Employees
11-50
Sources
- Built Robotics official site
- Built Robotics solar piling solution (RPD 35)
- Built Robotics trenching solution
- Built Robotics company page
- Wikipedia - Built Robotics (founding, funding, products, customers)
- TechCrunch - Built Robotics raises $64M (Series C, investors)
- pv magazine - AI-driven piling system supports 250 MW solar project in Australia (2025)
- Tomorrow's World Today - Blattner and Built Robotics partnership
- Built Robotics LinkedIn
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