About

About the Company

We build the robots that build the world. Robots are intelligent tools, and we put these tools in the hands of the skilled craft workers of the 21st century. We do this by upgrading off-the-shelf heavy equipment with AI guidance systems, enabling it to operate fully autonomously. Our robots are deployed today across the $1 trillion earthmoving industry, and they’re being used to build critical infrastructure such as wind farms, gas pipelines, and new housing developments.

2016

Founded

San Francisco, California

Team size

Plus three office dogs

$1T

Global earthmoving market

Annual spend on excavation services

My dad was a carpenter and contractor, so I grew up around construction. In high school I worked for him renovating old houses, then went to work at Google after college. When I first started Built, he told me I’d better learn to operate equipment before I tried to automate it, so I rented a Deere 135G excavator and dug a pond in my family’s back yard. Soon after, I met Andrew, my co-founder, and six months later we got our first prototype up and running.

Noah Ready-Campbell

Founder & CEO

Working at Built

Built is something between a robotics lab and a construction company, so we spend a lot of time in the field testing equipment, learning from our customers, and ensuring our technology is safe and effective.

Team trip out to a customer project. (Winter 2018)

Simple visualization of an autonomous excavator at work.

7,500 hrs

Autonomous operations

Hours of operation without a safety incident, equivalent to over 350,000 miles of self-driving car testing

82,048 lbs

Weight of our largest excavator

Downtime for some maintenance.

Autonomous compact track loader, excavator, and dozer building a wind turbine foundation.

Team off-site: dirtbiking! (Summer 2018)

Robots don’t stop for snow...

Windy day in Kansas. This is why it’s called the Dust Bowl.

Grading lots for a new residential community.

A wind farm our robots helped build.

Writing code that moves a giant machine to do real work... It never gets old!

Andrew Liang

Co-Founder & Technology Lead

Team off-site at Breckenridge. (Winter 2018)

The first pond Noah dug in his family’s back yard.

Code + diesel = robot.

Nighttime bonfires at our team off-site at Pismo Beach, California. (Summer 2019)

Dune buggy riding at Pismo Beach.

Sometimes you need extra power to charge your laptop.

Videos

Grab the popcorn.

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Spring 2019: Team of robots, man, and dog building a wind turbine foundation.

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Fall 2017: A dad and his daughter building a house.

Careers

We’re always looking for great humans to join
the team.

Build robots that ship

Our autonomous vehicles are already in the field working for real customers

A trillion dollar market

Earthmoving is the literal foundation of every construction project

San Francisco, CA

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jobs@builtrobotics.com.

I’ve never had a meeting quite like the one I had with Built Robotics... Built is taking the concepts and technology that others are using to build self-driving cars and adapting them for a whole different vertical: construction.”

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