Construction & infrastructure

Inspection and scanning robots

Robots that scan and inspect: building progress, as-built versus design, tunnels, pipes, tanks and solar plants.

59 robots · 49 makers · 47 on sale · 2 with a published price

59 robots

Asset Guard by Aegeus Technologies
Aegeus Technologies

Asset Guard

AI surveillance robot for solar plant monitoring.

Crawler Gen 3 by Aerones
Aerones

Crawler Gen 3

Robotic crawler that drives inside wind-turbine blades with 3D LiDAR and 360-degree cameras for internal…

Avvy by Autonabit
Autonabit

Avvy

Small driverless electric robot that patrols vineyards and orchards with GPS/camera navigation carrying…

Spot by Boston Dynamics
Boston Dynamics

Spot

Agile quadruped that walks construction sites autonomously carrying laser scanners / 360° cameras for reality…

About $74,500

Electric
DJI Dock 3 with Matrice 4D / 4TD by DJI Enterprise
DJI Enterprise

DJI Dock 3 with Matrice 4D / 4TD

Drone-in-a-box: dock stores/charges the drone and launches remote, scheduled missions for mapping, inspection and…

Electric
FieldPrinter 2 by Dusty Robotics
Dusty Robotics

FieldPrinter 2

Mobile robot that prints full-scale BIM/CAD layout (lines, text, QR codes) directly onto concrete slabs, guided…

Electric
ASIO X by Flybotix
Flybotix

ASIO X

Collision-tolerant indoor drone for inspecting confined spaces, with LiDAR point-cloud capture and analytics.

Vision 60 Q-UGV by Ghost Robotics
Ghost Robotics

Vision 60 Q-UGV

Rugged quadruped UGV for defense and commercial use incl. construction site monitoring and bridge/infrastructure…

Electric
Leica BLK ARC by Leica Geosystems
Leica Geosystems

Leica BLK ARC

Autonomous laser-scanning module for mobile and robotic carriers (e.g. legged robots) in hazardous areas.

Scout 137 by ScoutDI
ScoutDI

Scout 137

Tethered drone that inspects tanks, vessels and other confined spaces (visual, ultrasonic thickness, gas, 3D…

Skydio F10 Lightrunner + MegaDock by Skydio
Skydio

Skydio F10 Lightrunner + MegaDock

Dock-based autonomous fixed-wing drone for long-range missions

Electric
Skydio R10 by Skydio
Skydio

Skydio R10

Compact indoor drone (public safety focus)

Electric
Unitree B2 by Unitree
Unitree

Unitree B2

Industrial quadruped for inspection (power, industrial, utility tunnels, dams), mapping and rescue

Electric
Unitree B2 EX / A2 / As2 by Unitree
Unitree

Unitree B2 EX / A2 / As2

Robots named in Unitree 'Intelligent Inspection Solution' for substations, utility and power-cable tunnels…

Electric
Acuity Robotics
Acuity Robotics

Stoat

Small robot for internal inspection of inaccessible spaces in infrastructure assets.

ANYbotics
ANYbotics

ANYmal

Autonomous legged inspection robot for industrial plants (power, utilities, mining, oil & gas, chemicals, rail)

Electric
ANYbotics
ANYbotics

ANYmal X

Explosion-proof legged inspection robot for hazardous areas

Electric
BladeRanger Group
BladeRanger Group

SolarDrone

Industrial drone with high-pressure cleaning payload for solar panels; also aerial inspection; separate site…

Electric
Clobotics
Clobotics

Clobotics Crawler

6 kg tethered crawler with dual HDR cameras that drives inside wind-turbine blades for internal inspection.

Clobotics
Clobotics

IBIS drone inspection

Autonomous drone system for external wind-blade visual inspection.

CUES, Inc.
CUES, Inc.

Pipe Ranger / Mudmaster / Ultra Shorty

Remote-controlled camera transporters (crawlers) that inspect sewer and storm pipes, with GraniteNet inspection…

DEEP Robotics
DEEP Robotics

DEEP Robotics Lite3 / Lynx

Smaller quadruped (Lite3) and wheeled-legged (Lynx) platforms

Electric
DEEP Robotics
DEEP Robotics

DEEP Robotics X30 / X30 Pro

Industrial quadruped for autonomous inspection, survey and mapping; deployed in underground power-cable tunnels…

Electric
Exyn
Exyn

Exyn Nexys + ExynAI autonomy

Modular lidar SLAM mapping payload with autonomy software that lets drones and legged robots map GPS-denied…

Electric
Flyability
Flyability

Elios 3

Collision-tolerant caged drone for visual inspection, LiDAR surveying and UT/radiation measurement in confined…

Gecko Robotics
Gecko Robotics

Komodo / drones / arm-based inspection

Other robot form factors named on site for inspection data capture

Electric
Gecko Robotics
Gecko Robotics

TOKA wall-climbing crawler robots

Magnetic wall-climbing robots doing ultrasonic/sensor inspection of steel assets (boiler walls, tanks, ship…

Electric
H2L Robotics
H2L Robotics

Selector180 / Selector225

Autonomous RTK-guided robot that scans tulip beds with cameras and AI to detect and mark/remove virus-diseased…

Hovering Solutions
Hovering Solutions

Underground autonomous flying robot

In-house autonomous drone that flies tunnels, sewers, penstocks and ore passes without pilot, GNSS or radio link…

Pay per data captured

Electric
IBAK
IBAK

MicroGator Air

Mobile or vehicle-mounted sewer rehabilitation and inspection robot system.

iMACHINE
iMACHINE

SurveyBot UGV

Autonomous survey and inspection rover.

iPEK
iPEK

QV360 Manhole Scanner

Scans a manhole in 360 degrees in about five minutes.

Percepto
Percepto

Percepto Ranger drone + Harbor

Autonomous docked drone system for remote, scheduled site monitoring; used for solar-farm construction progress…

Electric
Raptor Maps
Raptor Maps

Raptor Solar Sentry

Remotely operated autonomous docked drones that fly visual/thermal inspection missions over solar plants, feeding…

Electric
RAUSCH
RAUSCH

Sewer milling robots

Remote-controlled milling robots that work inside sewers for inspection and rehabilitation (e.g.

RAUSCH
RAUSCH

TV inspection systems / crawlers

Camera inspection systems, from push cameras to vehicle-mounted crawler systems, for pipes and channels.

RedZone Robotics
RedZone Robotics

Responder

Multi-sensor inspection robot for large-diameter pipes.

REIWA Engine
REIWA Engine

SandStorm

Patented self-powered autonomous dry-cleaning and diagnostic robot that runs along ground-mounted PV/tracker rows…

Electric
Skilancer Solar
Skilancer Solar

SS-AI Series

Robot carrying FLIR thermal + AI cameras to detect hotspots, micro-cracks and dust while traversing modules

Electric
Skydio
Skydio

Skydio X10 + Dock for X10

Autonomous drone in a charging dock that flies scheduled/on-demand missions without onsite pilot for construction…

Electric
Skygauge Robotics
Skygauge Robotics

The Skygauge

Thrust-vectoring contact drone that takes ultrasonic thickness readings and does spot rust repair / coating…

Sulzer Schmid
Sulzer Schmid

3DX AutoPilot Pro

Autonomous drone payload/flight system that captures images of wind-turbine rotor blades for inspection.

Terabase Energy
Terabase Energy

Terafab

Robotics-assisted automated field factory on the construction site that assembles tracker tables with modules and…

VersaTrax inspection crawlers by Eddyfi Robotics
Eddyfi Robotics

VersaTrax inspection crawlers

Modular tethered crawlers that carry cameras and sensors into pipes, ducts and up ferrous walls for remote…

Scaled Robotics
Scaled Robotics

Automated Construction Verification

Service/software checking build quality from laser scans (any scanner) against design

SkyMul
SkyMul

SkyMul digital twin

Autonomous drone/LiDAR scans turned into digital twin for progress tracking, embed/anchor-bolt verification…

Electric
Toggle
Toggle

Toggle QC / RLS

3D sensing and computer-vision modules that verify rebar geometry on cut-and-bend lines and map rebar cage…

Electric
Agerris
Agerris

Digital Farmhand

Small crop-row robot platform with implements (horticulture, not livestock)

Pre-orderElectric
RB-WATCHER by Robotnik
Robotnik

RB-WATCHER

Autonomous wheeled inspection/surveillance robot; in PV case it drives the corridors between panel rows capturing…

PilotElectric
BladeBUG Ltd
BladeBUG Ltd

BladeBUG

Six-legged walking robot that climbs on wind-turbine blades and performs ultrasonic non-destructive testing for…

Pilot
Charge Robotics
Charge Robotics

Sunrise factory

Mobile robotic on-site factory that pre-assembles tracker bays (structure + modules) and installs them, taking a…

Pilot
Hyundai Engineering & Construction
Hyundai Engineering & Construction

Field patrol robot

Autonomous LiDAR/SLAM robot that patrols construction sites and collects site data.

PilotIn-house use, not sold
Scaled Robotics
Scaled Robotics

Scaled Robotics site monitoring robot

Autonomous ground robot that laser-scans construction sites and compares scans with BIM for progress tracking and…

PilotElectric
Crover Ltd
Crover Ltd

Autonomous CROVER

Autonomous version of the grain-store monitoring robot.

Stage unknown
LEAPTING
LEAPTING

Smart PV Inspection Robot

Robot that performs automated inspection of PV plants.

Stage unknown
Normet
Normet

SmartScan

Scanning system supporting automated spraying/measurement underground.

Stage unknown
Align Construction Technologies
Align Construction Technologies

TerraMARK

Autonomous mobile robot that reads CAD drawings and marks out set-out/layout points on construction sites to…

Stage unknown
Universal Field Robots
Universal Field Robots

UFR INSPECT

Autonomous ATV-based infrastructure inspection.

Stage unknown
Flybotix
Flybotix

ASIO Pro

Earlier confined-space inspection drone.

Discontinued

Buyer’s guide: inspection and scanning robots

How they work

Walking, driving or flying robots carry laser scanners, 360° and thermal cameras, and compare what they see with the plan or with earlier scans.

What to check before buying

  • Sensors carried and accuracy
  • Autonomous or remote-controlled
  • Software and reports included

Where they work

Makers