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. Aerial Layouting: Design and Control of a Compliant and Actuated End-Effector for Precise In-flight Marking on Ceilings

    Aug 11, 2026Christian Lanegger, Marco Ruggia, Marco Tognon +2Robotic ConstructionRobotic Manipulation

    Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

  2. Reconfigurable Structural Robotic Assembly: Interlocking 3D Aggregations with Self-Aligning Compound Nested Lattice Modules

    Aug 4, 2026Alexander Htet Kyaw, Miana Smith, Paul Richard +1Robotic ConstructionModular Robotics

    Massachusetts Instittue of Technology (MIT) · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

  3. Perception-and-action system for humanoid robot task execution in construction

    Aug 3, 2026Yanxi Liu, Yizhi LiuRobotic ConstructionMotion Retargeting

    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Syracuse University, 158 Link Hall, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA · Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Syracuse University, 151J Link Hall, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA

  4. Tripody: An Overconstrained 3-SPR-like Parallel Robot for High-Reach Construction Tasks

    Jul 28, 2026Julien Kindle, Jakub Raczy, Riccardo Balbi +3Robotic ConstructionMechanism Design

    Robotic Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, Switzerland · Hilti AG, Schaan, Liechtenstein

  5. Learning a System-Level Surrogate for Hydraulic Excavators: A Simulation-to-Real LSTM Approach

    Jul 17, 2026Shuai Wang, Shen Wang, Qiang Wang +4Neural Surrogate ModelingRobotic Construction

    National Engineering Research Center of Mobile Network Technologies, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China · Yaowu (Shenzhen) Technology Co., Ltd., Shenzhen 518052, China

  6. Dynamic Object Detection and Tracking in Construction: A Fisheye Camera and LiDAR Sensor Fusion Model

    Jul 8, 2026Yilong Chen, Huili Huang, Yong K. ChoRobotic ConstructionLidar-Based 3D Object Detection

    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA

  7. Hilti-Trimble-Oxford Dataset: 360 Visual-Inertial Benchmark with Floor Plan Priors for SLAM and Localization

    Jul 7, 2026Samuele Centanni, Yuhao Zhang, Yifu Tao +8Robotic ConstructionFloor-Plan-Based Visual Localization

    Hilti AG, Corporate Research & Technology, Schaan, Liechtenstein · University of Oxford, Dynamic Robot Systems Group, Oxford, UK · ETH Zürich, Robotics Systems Lab, Zürich, Switzerland +2

  8. ShotcreteDepth: A Bi-modal Dataset for Robust Robotic Depth Perception in Shotcrete Construction Environments

    Jun 22, 2026Jakub Gregorek, Lars Arnold Dethlefsen, Patrick Schmidt +3Robotic ConstructionDepth Estimation

    1Technical University of Denmark, Department of Electrical and Photonics Engineering. · 2Pioneer Centre for AI, Copenhagen, Denmark. · 3Christiansen & Essenbæk A/S.

  9. Co-Creating Buildable and Open Social Robot Study Companions with University Students

    Jun 13, 2026Farnaz Baksh, Matevž B. Zorec, Feiazie Baksh +1Robotic ConstructionRobotics

    University of Tartu, Estonia · University of Guyana Robotics Club, Guyana

  10. Tessellated Biomes: Distributed Robotic Assemblies for Architectural Resilience

    Jun 7, 2026Sergio Mutis, Eric Hughes, Gert DuvenhageCyber-Physical SystemsRobotic Construction

    MIT · UCL

  11. Adaptive Human-Robot Collaboration for Masonry Construction Under Material and Assembly Uncertainty

    May 18, 2026Jutang Gao, Arash AdelRobotic ConstructionRobotics

    Princeton University · Princeton University, USA

  12. EUPHORIA: Efficient Universal Planning via Hybrid Optimization for Robust Industrial Robotic Assembly

    May 15, 2026Shih-Yu Lai, Chia-Ching Yen, Yang-Ting Shen +3Robotic ConstructionMeta-Learning

    National Taiwan University · MoonShine Animation Studio · National Cheng Kung University +2

  13. Hybrid LLM-based Intelligent Framework for Robot Task Scheduling

    May 15, 2026Swayamjit Saha, Subhabrata Das, Haonan Duan +1Robotic ConstructionLarge Language Model-Based Robot Planning

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, USA · 2Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA · 3Consumer and Community Banking, JPMorgan Chase, New York, NY, USA +2

  14. Manipulation Planning for Construction Activities with Repetitive Tasks

    May 13, 2026Wangyi Liu, Dasharadhan Mahalingam, Fanru Gao +2Robotic ConstructionLong-Horizon Robotic Manipulation

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stony Brook University, NY, USA. · Department of Civil Engineering, Stony Brook University, NY, USA.

  15. BrickCraft: Visuomotor Skill Composition with Situated Manual Guidance for Long-Horizon Interlocking Brick Assembly

    May 8, 2026Jichuan Yu, Bowei Li, Zhenran Tang +4Robotic ConstructionLong-Horizon Robotic Manipulation

    Tsinghua University · Carnegie Mellon University

  16. Long-Reach Robotic Manipulation for Assembly and Outfitting of Lunar Structures

    Mar 31, 2026Stanley Wang, Venny Kojouharov, Long Yin Chung +2Robotic ManipulationSpace Robotics

    Stanford University · All authors are with the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

  17. Task-Aware Positioning for Improvisational Tasks in Mobile Construction Robots via an AI Agent with Multi-LMM Modules

    Mar 24, 2026Seongju Jang, Francis Baek, SangHyun LeeRobotic ConstructionRobot Navigation

    Ph.D. Student, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, 2350 Hayward St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 · Assistant Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, North Avenue, Atlanta GA 30332 · Robert B. Harris Collegiate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, 2350 Hayward St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

  18. Functionalization of Situated Robots via Vapour

    Mar 23, 2026Kadri-Ann Pankratov, Leonid Zinatullin, Adele Metsniit +2RoboticsMaterials Science

    authors are with Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, Nooruse 1, 50411 Tartu, Estonia

  19. LASER: Level-Based Asynchronous Scheduling and Execution Regime for Spatiotemporally Constrained Multi-Robot Timber Manufacturing

    Mar 21, 2026Zhenxiang Huang, Lior Skoury, Tim Stark +4Multi-Robot SystemsMulti-Robot Coordination

    Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD) and Cluster of Excellence IntCDC at University of Stuttgart, Germany.

  20. KUKAloha: A General, Low-Cost, and Shared-Control based Teleoperation Framework for Construction Robot Arm

    Mar 20, 2026Yifan Xu, Qizhang Shen, Vineet Kamat +1Robot TeleoperationRobotic Control

    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, United States of America · Department of Robotics, University of Michigan, United States of America

  21. Environment-Aware Path Generation for Robotic Additive Manufacturing of Structures

    Mar 5, 2026Mahsa Rabiei, Reza MoiniRobotic ConstructionAdditive Manufacturing

    Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA

  22. Learning to Build: Autonomous Robotic Assembly of Stable Structures Without Predefined Plans

    Feb 27, 2026Jingwen Wang, Johannes Kirschner, Paul Rolland +2Robotic ConstructionSequential Decision Making

    Lab of Creative Computation, ´Ecole Polytechnique F´ed´erale de Lausanne · Swiss Data Science Center

  23. Autonomous Block Assembly for Boom Cranes with Passive Joint Dynamics: Integrated Vision MPC Control

    Feb 17, 2026Gerald Ebmer, Minh Nhat Vu, Tobias Glück +1Robotic ControlRobotic Construction

    Automation & Control Institute (ACIN), TU Wien, Gusshausstrasse 27-29, 1040 Wien, Austria · Center for Vision, Automation & Control, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Giefinggasse 4, 1210 Vienna, Austria