Robotic Construction

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Robotic construction studies how machines can assemble structures and carry out tasks in settings ranging from block, timber, and masonry work to heavy-equipment operation and lunar habitats. Common approaches combine vision or LiDAR with task and skill planning, model-predictive control, reinforcement learning, diffusion policies, compliant robot design, and human teleoperation. Systems are tested in simulation and on physical robots, with tasks such as precision insertion, repetitive assembly, ceiling marking, site localization, and multi-robot fabrication. A central challenge is making methods reliable amid changing site conditions, material tolerances, contact uncertainty, and safety constraints while improving on the speed and flexibility of human work.

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  1. Learning Interaction-Aware Path Corrections from Unlabeled Trajectories: A LiDAR-Based Sim-to-Real GNN Framework for Construction Robots

    Oct 25, 2026Yilong Chen, Yong K. ChoSocial Robot NavigationRobot Learning

    School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA30332, United States

  2. T-ConSG: A LiDAR-Based Real-Time Temporal Construction Scene Graph for Dynamic and Evolving Environments

    Oct 25, 2026Yilong Chen, Yong K. Cho3D SGGScene Graph Generation

    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA

  3. Distributed Swarm Morphogenesis with Neural Cellular Automata

    Oct 22, 2026Ray Verma, Eliseo Ferrante, Anthony TzesSwarm RoboticsRobotic Construction

    Department of Computer Science, New York University Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates · Department of Electrical Engineering, New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

  4. Reading the Room: Scale-ambiguous Semantic Registration of Sparse VSLAM Maps to Floor Plans in Partially Built Environments

    Oct 21, 2026Bjorn Stragier, Emilia Szymańska, J. Micah Prendergast +1Floor-Plan-Based Visual LocalizationMap-Based Localization

    Cognitive Robotics Department, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands. · Hilti AG, Schaan, Liechtenstein. · Machine Intelligence Group, University of Technology Nuremberg UTN, Nuremberg, Germany.

  5. Towards Autonomous Bricklaying Using Boston Dynamics Spot

    Oct 20, 2026Karl-Johan Sorensen, Nico vom Hofe, Frank H. P. FitzekRobotic ConstructionRobotic Assembly

    Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States · Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks, TU Dresden, Germany · Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop (CeTI), Dresden, Germany

  6. Beyond Human-Derived Motion: Exploring Robot-Specific Execution for Construction Humanoids

    Oct 16, 2026MinJun Chang, Taehyung Kim, Yong K. Cho +1Humanoid Robot ControlRobot Motion Generation

    School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA · Department of Mobility Systems Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

  7. Large language model and reinforcement learning based autonomous construction and progress updates

    Oct 16, 2026Yifei Xiao, Huasheng Lin, T. Y. YangRobotic ConstructionReinforcement Learning

    Department of Civil Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

  8. APTree: Extended Behavior Trees for Adaptive and Scalable Automated Robotic Task Planning in Construction

    Oct 13, 2026Shermin Sherkat, Thomas Wortmann, Andreas WortmannRobot Task PlanningRobotic Construction

    Institute for Computational Design and Construction, Department for Computing in Architecture (ICD/CA), University of Stuttgart, Keplerstraße 11, Stuttgart, 70174, Germany · Institute for Control Engineering of Machine Tools and Manufacturing Units (ISW), University of Stuttgart, Seidenstraße 36, Stuttgart, 70174, Germany

  9. Walking on Roofs: Exploring the Potential of Walking Robots for Construction Work on Roofs

    Oct 8, 2026Bjoern-Felix Dettmar, Arne RoennauQuadruped LocomotionRobotic Construction

    Machine Intelligence and Robotics Lab at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany

  10. On-Demand Robotic Assembly via Differentiable Geometric Part Repair

    Oct 7, 2026Millicent Schlafly, Fabio Schaub, Diogo Costa Pais +5Robotic AssemblyRobotic Construction

    ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  11. Robust 2D Traversability Mapping for Construction AMRs via Failure-Mode-Aware Fusion of LiDAR Geometry and Monocular Semantics

    Oct 4, 2026Manoj Karnekar, Om Mandhane, Gautham RamkumarRobotic ConstructionRobot Traversability Estimation

    FloMobility Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India

  12. Autoware in Construction: Gap Analysis and LiDAR Perception Toward Off-Road Autonomous Driving

    Oct 3, 2026Yu Otsuki, Teja Emmey, Sena Matsushita +2Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving Perception

    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine (UCI), Irvine, CA, USA · TIER IV, Inc., Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan

  13. Toward Humanoid Robots in Construction: A Teleoperation Feasibility Study

    Sep 30, 2026Parastoo Ali Pour, David R. Martin, Chang Min Hur +6Robotic ConstructionHumanoid Loco-Manipulation

    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697 USA · Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697 USA · Professional Master of Embedded and Cyber-physical Systems Program, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697 USA

  14. ScaffoldM3C: A Multimodal Sequential Monte Carlo Framework for Generative Stable Construction Planning

    Sep 30, 2026Gadiel Sznaier Camps, Chengyang He, Guillaume Sartoretti +2Robotic ConstructionMultimodal Generation

    Multi-robot Systems Lab (MSL), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA · Multi-Agent Robotic Motion Lab (MARMot), National University of Singapore, Singapore · Perception-Oriented Control Team (POC), Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

  15. Robot-Assisted Deployment and Maintenance of Inflatable Modules for Lunar Habitation: A Field Demonstration

    Sep 28, 2026Kentaro Uno, Shamistan Karimov, Ashutosh Mishra +5Robotic ConstructionModular Robotics

    Space Robotics Lab. (SRL) in Department of Aerospace Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan · Department of Electrical Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Noda 278-8510, Japan

  16. DeltaSeek: Toward Active Perception in Evolving Construction Environments

    Sep 27, 2026Sanjay Acharjee, Md Nazmus SakibRobotic ConstructionActive Visual Perception

    Department of Civil Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, TX 76019, USA.

  17. Auditing Quality Filters for Long-Tail Human Data Curation

    Sep 25, 2026Rishav Agarwal, Nirshal Chandra Sekar, Anirudh VemulaTraining Data CurationObject Detection

    Gritt Robotics

  18. Transformer-based Monte Carlo Localization in Construction Meshes

    Sep 25, 2026Linus Kramer, William Talbot, Olga Vysotska +1Robot LocalizationLiDAR Localization

    Robotic Systems Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Zurich 8092, Switzerland

  19. Wheel-loader V-Cycle Automation with Deep Koopman MPC

    Sep 22, 2026Armin Abdolmohammadi, Navid Mojahed, Dinesh Kumar +2Robotic ConstructionData-Driven Control

    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.

  20. Skill Sequence Planning for Collaborative Multi-Robot Construction

    Sep 22, 2026Xi Wang, Bo Fu, Carol C. Menassa +2Robotic ConstructionMulti-Robot Coordination

    Department of Construction Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA · Amazon Robotics, North Reading, MA 01864, USA · Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, MI 48109, USA +1

  21. CAST: Collision-Aware Assembly with Construction Robots using Simultaneous Trajectory Estimation and Planning

    Sep 21, 2026Karthik Shaji, Chisung Kim, John D'Amato +2Multi-Robot Motion PlanningRobotic Construction

    Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta 30332, USA · School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta 30332, USA · Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Machines, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta 30332, USA

  22. From Documented Strengths to Force Limits: Material-Informed Robotic Insertion for Construction Assembly

    Sep 18, 2026Lin He, Yanyi Chen, Haofei Sun +2Robotic ConstructionRobotic Insertion

    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA · The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, USA · The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA

  23. Learning Slope-Adaptive Whole-Body Locomotion for Humanoid Robots in Roofing Construction

    Sep 17, 2026Songyang Liu, Shuai LiRL for RoboticsRobotic Construction

    Ph.D. Student, Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611. · Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 (corresponding author).

  24. Visual Sim-to-Real Learning for Robotic Insertion under Geometric Variations: Application to Rebar Installation

    Sep 17, 2026Tao Sun, Beining Han, Patrick Yin +5RL for RoboticsRobotic Construction

    McGill University · Princeton University · University of Washington

  25. OJOx: Specification-Conditioned Demonstrations for Embodied AI in Construction

    Sep 13, 2026Mohamed DawodEmbodied AILearning from Demonstration

    OJOx AI, London, United Kingdom

  26. Learning to build covering structures with continuous adjustments

    Sep 8, 2026Gabriel Vallat, Maryam Kamgarpour, Stefana ParaschoRL for RoboticsRobotic Construction

  27. Harnessing human expertise for high-precision robotic assembly in industrialized construction: A sample-efficient installer-in-the-loop interactive reinforcement learning framework

    Sep 2, 2026Zekai Jin, Huiguang Wang, Xiaoning Sun +1Robotic AssemblyReinforcement Learning

    Department of Civil Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  28. Autonomous robotic bridging using distributed swarm control without inter-agent communication

    Sep 1, 2026Vishwaak C. Thamaraiselvan, Cody L. Lundberg, Michail Theofandis +2Multi-Robot Formation ControlRobotic Construction

    The University of Texas at Arlington Research Institute (UTARI), Fort Worth, TX

  29. A Taxonomy of Construction Task Activities for Robot Workers

    Aug 26, 2026Sadman Sakib, Zhangyi Peng, Yujie Pang +2Robotic ConstructionRobotic Manipulation

    The authors are with the Nhu Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA · The authors contributed during the UCInspire program · The author is with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA

  30. Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation in Construction via Zero-Shot Learning: A Diffusion Policy-Guided Adaptive Control

    Aug 22, 2026Roman Ibrahimov, Salma Mozaffari, Arash AdelContact-Rich Robotic ManipulationRobotic Assembly

    Princeton University · Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA