Global Construction Robotics Market Research Report 2023-Competitive Analysis, Status and Outlook by Type, Downstream Industry, and Geography, Forecast to 2029

Global Construction Robotics Market Research Report 2023-Competitive Analysis, Status and Outlook by Type, Downstream Industry, and Geography, Forecast to 2029

Construction robotics refers to construction operations that are automatically carried out by using automated construction equipment or construction robots. Including semi-automatic or fully automatic robots, aimed at improving the speed and quality of construction work. Construction robots are used to perform civil engineering projects and perform basic tasks such as positioning, demolition and tunnel excavation on construction sites. These robots increase productivity by shortening construction time and reducing overall operating costs.

Market Overview:

The latest research study on the global Construction Robotics market finds that the global Construction Robotics market reached a value of USD 299.56 million in 2022. It’s expected that the market will achieve USD 556.1 million by 2028, exhibiting a CAGR of 10.86% during the forecast period.

Negative impact in the short term

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on the construction robot industry. Due to the increase in COVID-19 cases, construction projects around the world are temporarily restricted. Strict blockades imposed by governments around the world have led to the closure of many industries. Due to the government's lockdown, the manufacture of robotic equipment has ceased. Lack of sufficient workers, shortage of raw materials, and interruption of the supply chain. Construction and transportation activities and their supply chains are hampered on a global scale. This has led to a decline in the manufacturing of building materials and robots, directly hindering the construction robot market.

Gradually recover over a long period of time, even positively affect

In the post-epidemic period, as the government lifts restrictions, manufacturing activities will start slowly. People are also gradually aware of the safety precautions brought about by social distance, and the demand for construction robots may increase. Moreover, people’s reliance on intelligent automation is increasing. With the gradual recovery of the epidemic, the demand for construction robots in industrial production will increase. However, for manufacturing companies, reasonable risk prevention is necessary, and risk management can help deal with the threat of potential recurrence of the epidemic.

Technological breakthroughs will become the focus of development

In the foreseeable future, the high integration of software and hardware will provide powerful digital twin technology for construction factories to realize flexible production with fewer people, unmanned, and intelligent. At the same time, rapid breakthroughs in the underlying technology of robots and computer vision will make robot motion control more accurate and real-time, and easy to operate. Coupled with the attention from society, industry leaders, and a large number of outstanding talents, construction robots will surely trigger a new round of development of intelligent construction.
The technical requirements of construction robot products are very high, and they need to integrate robotics, robot motion path planning, sensor technology, and construction process control based on building information models and multiple construction processes. Among them, the application of BIM will become more and more widespread. At present, Australia and the United Kingdom are in a leading position in the application of building information modeling (BIM), and the United States is gradually increasing the application of BIM, especially for large-scale commercial construction projects. Professional coordination reduces errors in the construction process. There will also be more BIM design and coordination service providers in the industry. Robot mobility, sensors, end effectors, work accuracy, and other issues are still the focus of attention of market participants, and the industry will be led by advanced technologies in the future.

Advantages of construction robots

Construction robots are an effective solution for the construction industry. This is mainly due to the increased productivity and quality of robots. In addition, work done under adverse conditions has higher safety and security. For example, demolition activities may cause damage to workers while destroying structures, but demolition robots can be used instead of humans. This makes the worker's operation safer.
The main advantage of using construction robots is to save time, improve accuracy and efficiency, and thus begin to produce more significant economic benefits. For example, Hadrian X is an automatic bricklaying machine that can calculate the necessary materials and movements to build the walls of a house without any supervision. An Australian company developed it by integrating an intelligent control system. The robot can lay bricks with 100% accuracy at a speed of 1,000 blocks per hour. It can detect changes due to external factors such as wind and vibration, and create designs accordingly. Because robots provide these functions, some construction organizations are deploying construction robots. The advantages of construction robots over traditional labor have promoted the development of the industry.

Region Overview:

In global comparison, a significant portion of the revenue was generated in Europe (39.35% in 2022).

Company Overview:

Brokk AB is one of the major players operating in the Construction Robotics market, holding a share of 38.89% in 2023.

Brokk AB

Brokk AB manufactures mining machineries. The Company sells controlled demolition machines for constructions, tunnelings, mining, and nuclear industries. Brokk serves customers throughout Sweden.

Husqvarna

Husqvarna AB is a Sweden-based company engaged in the development, manufacture and marketing of outdoor power products, consumer watering products, cutting equipment and diamond tools for construction and stone industries.

Segmentation Overview:

Among different product types, Semi-autonomous Robots segment is anticipated to contribute the largest market share in 2028.

Fully Autonomous Robots

Fully Autonomous Robots is an intelligent machine that can perform tasks in the world by itself without explicit human control. Robots perform construction tasks with a high degree of autonomy (no external influence). Even robots can learn or acquire new knowledge, such as adjusting new ways to complete tasks or adapting to changing environments.

Semi-autonomous Robots

Semi-autonomous Robots are generally controlled by external commands from humans or external systems. At present, more construction robots are semi-automated, these construction robots are designed to execute a task with certain levels of planning interaction conducted with a human supervisor.

Application Overview:

By application, the Public Infrastructure segment occupied the biggest share from 2018 to 2022.

Key Companies in the global Construction Robotics market covered in Chapter 3:

Husqvarna
Construction Robotics
Giant Hydraulic Tech
Alpine
Brokk AB
TopTec Spezialmaschinen GmbH
Conjet AB
Beijing Borui Intelligent Control Technology

In Chapter 4 and Chapter 14.2, on the basis of types, the Construction Robotics market from 2018 to 2029 is primarily split into:

Fully Autonomous Robots
Semi-autonomous Robots

In Chapter 5 and Chapter 14.3, on the basis of Downstream Industry, the Construction Robotics market from 2018 to 2029 covers:

Commercial Buildings
Residential Buildings
Public Infrastructure
Others

Geographically, the detailed analysis of consumption, revenue, market share and growth rate, historic and forecast (2018-2029) of the following regions are covered in Chapter 8 to Chapter 14:

North America (United States, Canada)
Europe (Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Russia, Netherlands, Turkey, Switzerland, Sweden)
Asia Pacific (China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia)
Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, Argentina)
Middle East & Africa (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, South Africa)