Our Robotics Deployment Lead, Kenrick T. is heading to the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), where he'll be presenting at the Workshop on Long-term Deployments in the Wild (LoWi) on June 1. In his talk, Kenrick will share a perspective that doesn't always make it into the research room: "the wild" as an active construction site, where the staging area shifts daily and the building goes up floor by floor. He'll be focusing on the gap between what a robot is validated to do and what the field actually throws at it, and how we close that loop with every deployment. If you're in Vienna for ICRA, reach out. We'd love to connect.
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http://raiserobotics.ai
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- Industry
- Construction
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2021
- Specialties
- robotics, construction, construction tech, automation, curtainwall, glazing, and tech
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Anyone headed to Boston for Robotics Invest this week? Raise Robotics CTO Rishabh Aggarwal will be at the conference sharing first-hand insights into what AI-driven, purpose-built robotics actually looks like when it leaves the lab and hits the job site. Rishabh has logged thousands of autonomous operating hours across eight states and knows what it takes to scale robotics in complex, unstructured environments. Hit us up if you want to connect.
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Hearing that the industry is focused squarely on functionality over form factor validates the robotic solutions we're building. Proud to have Rishabh Aggarwal and Kenrick T. representing Raise at Oracle AI and Robotics for the Built World Forum.
Spent a day at Oracle's AI conference alongside general contractors, construction execs, and oil and gas leaders. Walked out with one of the clearest reads I have had in a while on what heavy industry actually wants from robotics. Thanks to Anthony Abinader for hosting an amazing panel. Not one of them asked about humanoids. Here is what they did ask: Why are robots limited to what humans can do? Why not three arms? Why not lift extra heavy loads? Why not drill at 40 feet up? That single line reframes the entire industrial robotics conversation. The form factor obsession in Silicon Valley is solving for a familiar shape, not for the job to be done. Great experience to present Raise Robotics with Kenrick T. and meeting the teams at Nextera Robotics, ANYbotics, and FieldAI. We are all serving overlapping customers across different domains, and the field signal is remarkably consistent. A few takeaways from the day: Augmentation, not replacement. Customers want robots that hand their workers a better tool. The pitch that lands on a job site is never about cutting headcount. It is about giving the crew capability they did not have yesterday. Unstructured environments are the real barrier. The job site will not clean itself up for a robot. Dust, slope, weather, debris, last minute layout changes. The platform has to meet the world as it is, not the other way around. Reliability beats speed. A robot that runs a full shift accurately with low oversight wins every time over a faster one that needs constant babysitting. Uptime is the economic unit on a site, not cycle time. The skilled trades shortage is not a future problem. It is here now, especially for the technical blue collar roles. Robots that absorb the grunt work could be what brings the next generation back to these trades, not what pushes them out. Silicon Valley keeps building machines that look like us. The people writing checks on real job sites are asking for something completely different.
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Layout printing on the ceiling. Around obstacles. In real time. Our onboard LiDAR array continuously feeds spatial data to the robot, so when it encounters an obstacle, it doesn't stop. It adapts and the layout gets printed exactly where it needs to be. No manual workarounds. No re-measuring. Just accurate output in conditions that keeps work on schedule. Grateful to the team at Momentum Glass who are working with us to build the future of construction. https://lnkd.in/gTS623QP
Layout Printing on the Ceiling
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Raise Robotics is heading to Chicago next week. Our CTO Rishabh Aggarwal and Robotics Deployment Lead Kenrick T. are co-presenting at the Oracle AI and Robotics for the Built World Forum 2026. They'll be sharing real-world experiences of what it actually looks like to develop and deploy robotics on live, chaotic, unpredictable construction sites. If you're attending, reach out. We'd love to connect.
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Always good when our Raise Robotics office fills up with young people. 20 Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University graduate students came in this morning as part of CEE327: Construction Robotics course. They showed up early. I hadn't anticipated the crowd, so I had to ask a few of them to grab extra chairs from downstairs. Before starting, I asked what they were most curious about. Most said they wanted to understand how robotics integration actually works on a job site. That's exactly what we've been working through across 10 commercial deployments. I gave a 20-minute talk on how the picture of what works changes as you stack more deployments, then walked them through the space. Where does the work sit on the danger-and-precision axis? Who's driving the automation conversation and why? What actually changes downstream when the robot shows up on site? Definitely not old enough to be inspiring the next generation — but I hope they left with a clearer sense of just how much potential this space has, and what it'll take to get there. Thanks to Gary Chen, Cynthia Brosque, Yaojing H. for setting this up, and Aaron E. for helping out.
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Always good when our Raise Robotics office fills up with young people. 20 Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University graduate students came in this morning as part of CEE327: Construction Robotics course. They showed up early. I hadn't anticipated the crowd, so I had to ask a few of them to grab extra chairs from downstairs. Before starting, I asked what they were most curious about. Most said they wanted to understand how robotics integration actually works on a job site. That's exactly what we've been working through across 10 commercial deployments. I gave a 20-minute talk on how the picture of what works changes as you stack more deployments, then walked them through the space. Where does the work sit on the danger-and-precision axis? Who's driving the automation conversation and why? What actually changes downstream when the robot shows up on site? Definitely not old enough to be inspiring the next generation — but I hope they left with a clearer sense of just how much potential this space has, and what it'll take to get there. Thanks to Gary Chen, Cynthia Brosque, Yaojing H. for setting this up, and Aaron E. for helping out.
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Pick any heavy industry and run the same diagnostic: → Chronic skilled labor shortage? ✓ → High injury rates in physical operations? ✓ → Unstructured environments creating high rework potential? ✓ → Aging infrastructure requiring intensive, repetitive maintenance? ✓ → Cost pressure and schedule overruns as structural norms? ✓ → Meaningful automation deployed at scale? ✗ Rail and transit networks covering millions of track miles, but are inspected and maintained largely by hand. Thousands of commercial vessels requiring continuous surface treatment and structural maintenance in hostile environments. Mines operating in conditions that routinely put human workers at serious risk. Power and utility infrastructure stretched across continents, mostly monitored and repaired by crews in the field. These aren't niche problems. They are the backbone of global economic infrastructure. And they represent a robotics opportunity that dwarfs anything in e-commerce fulfillment or last-mile delivery — sectors that have already attracted a decade of investment and attention. The heavy industry verticals aren't waiting to be discovered. They're waiting to be served. #Robotics #Automation #HeavyIndustry #FutureOfWork #IndustrialAutomation
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Back at the Glass & Metal Alliance Glass Symposium yesterday in Atlantic City with Conley Oster. Second year now. Ran into a lot of familiar faces from International Union of Painters and Allied Trades that we met at last year's train-the-trainers courses. Glad to reconnect. Maybe the most unexpected part of the day was a passing conversation about painting workflow testing and training, possibly together with IUPAT and Finishing Trades Institute back in Philadelphia later this year. Excited for what's ahead! Raise Robotics
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