Automate Construction Power Ranking 2026

New year, new power ranking! Check out the rubric below, it is imperfect but it’s my attempt at ranking the various competitors in the construction automation world. I only include companies that contribute to the building process, no scanners, layout bots, or extraneous software. Only hardware, robotics, and companies who truly contribute to building the final structure.

My name is Jarett Gross and my journey around the world visiting construction automation companies has reached over a billion people online. This year Automate Construction will begin to offer in person courses on operating construction automation equipment. If you would like to sign up for the first course on how to 3D concrete, reach out to me on the contact page and I will reserve one of the limited spots. Only 6 remain of 16 total available spots and we recommend teams of 3-4. We will print with a pro team and each person from your group will operate a different role to print a wall.

For transparency I have invested in some of the companies through publicly available crowdfinding and others have sponsored videos in the past but this is an unbiased ranking attempt, not all companies I’ve invested in or taken sponsorships from have been listed.

If you disagree with my ranking reach out and I will explain how I did it and why your company scored the way it did relative to other companies near your score.

I do not know everything and I know this list isn’t perfect. One founder last year complained about their financing score because he claims to be personally very wealthy but without clear public evidence his wealth has been invested into his construction automation startup rather than his other endeavors, his personal wealth is not a factor in their financing score.

I do my best to only rank companies based on publicly available information.

With all that out of the way here is the Automate Construction Ranking 2026! Congratulations to the top 50 companies, even the bottom of the list beat out over 400 other firms in the space so it’s a hard club to get in and everyone listed should be proud!

In February we are running the first hands on 3DCP training in Florida. Email me for more details automateconstruction.com/contact

Company Name	Power Ranking Score
Horizon Legacy	12
Evocons	13
Instatiq	13
Rudenko	13
M3DSA	13
Tvasta	14
Macro 3D	14
MiCob	15
Cosmos 3D	15
Heidelberg	15
Cobod	15
Print3DTechnologies	15
UTU	15
Lumina *	15
Madco3D	16
Apis Cor	16
Xhab	17
Contour 3D	17
Vertico	17
Cybe	17
Muddy Robots	17
TRS Tech	17
Wasp 3D	18
Innotech 3D	18
CES Innovfab	18
PERI	18
KKrane	19
Coral	19
Printed Farms	19
Emergent 3D	19
Constructions 3D	19
Botbuilt	19
RIC	20
SQ4D	20
M-Tech	20
Pikus 3D	20
Boxabl	21
Moneumental	21
MAI	22
Advanced Construction Robotics	22
Sika	22
Fastbrick Robotics	23
Built Robotics	23
Alquist 3D	24
Oshkosh	24
3D Plotter	24
AutoVol	24
Caterpillar	25
Hive	25
Icon	27

As always, I hope everyone is offended 🙂

Complaints will be met with a private review of your rubric scoring.

Check out the ranking from previous years!

2024 Ranking

Automate Construction Power Ranking 2024

2025 Ranking

Automate Construction Power Ranking 2025

POWER RANKING RUBRIC

Activity

How busy is the company or tech working directly on construction automation projects?

1. No current projects
2. Small activity
3. Daily building
4. Notably high activity 
5. Scaled multi team 24 hr activity (None yet achieved)

Funding

How much access to capital does the company have

1. Bootstrapped
2. Pre Seed
3. Seed
4. 10M+
5. 100M+

Commercialization

Is the company doing projects, selling systems, and operating like a typical contractor

1. No commercial revenue
2. Small or subsidized commercial revenue
3. At least some work is sold with the expectation of profit
4. Regularly doing projects with expectation of profit
5. Gold rush (None yet achieved)

Code Compliance

Is the product sold following typical codes and regulations permissible everywhere?

1. No code is followed in any projects or project ending non compliance
2. Light local restrictions allow activity
3. Permitted projects in typical regions
4. Permitted projects in extra challenging regions
5. Identical to traditional methods in ease of permitting

Innovation

Is the company doing new things all the time?

1. No notable improvements over last year
2. Small progress
3. Clearly innovating
4. Wildly unique
5. Vertically integrated innovation

Reliability

Does the company follow through on promised projects, predictions, and products? 

1. Multiple cases of no follow through
2. Typical startup challenges
3. Consistently delivers
4. Exceptional delivery & delivery rate
5. Top tier reliability (None yet achieved)

Publicity

Do people know the company exists?

1. Why are you so secret? Get the word out!
2. Minor publicity
3. Substantial publicity
4. Above average media exposure
5. Enormous PR 

Construction

Do they build stuff and operate like a normal construction company or construction equipment provider?

1. Operating like early startup
2. Some construction 
3. Contractor or commercial equipment provider
4. Experienced GC
5. Major construction player

Momentum

Are they growing and expanding or are their achievements getting old?

1. Activity is stale or shrinking
2. Advancing slowly
3. Rapidly scaling

Disclaimer: Not investment advice, I have participated in public crowd funding with companies listed here as an investor and also taken sponsorships from companies listed. The sponsorship is flat rate and not every company that sponsored a video makes the list. It is my goal to be an unbiased judge.