Deployment
Exosystem at United States
Built Robotics (San Francisco; founder Noah Ready-Campbell; about $112M raised) makes autonomous construction heavy-equipment systems: the Exosystem, an autonomy upgrade kit that retrofits standard excavators and other heavy equipment for autonomous earthmoving and trenching, and the RPD 35, an autonomous robotic solar pile driver focused on utility-scale solar farms. It is recorded at commercial maturity, with contractor customers including Mortenson and Black & Veatch. Deployment-scale figures (total solar capacity installed, named utility customers) are an honest absence in independent sources; vendor throughput claims (e.g. ~3x faster pile driving) are stated, not independently verified.
Exosystem by Built Robotics · Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verified
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /deployments/built-exosystem-us.md
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/robots/c10a7ce6-7528-4dde-acb4-fac5ad3a8e45
- Data documentation: /data
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Footage
Built Robotics footage of its Exosystem, a retrofit kit (cameras, GPS, and compute) that makes a standard excavator autonomous for tasks such as trenching. Genuine task-bounded autonomy, but geofenced to a defined work area and supervised by an on-site operator who sets the job and monitors.
Official Built Robotics video showcasing the RPD 35, the world's first autonomous piling system mounted on an excavator. Features onboard pile storage, GPS-guided sub-centimeter accuracy, and the Exosystem AI guidance brain.
- Trust tier
- Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verified
- Last updated
- 2026-06-12
- Model
- Exosystem
- Company
- Built Robotics
- Location
- United States
- Status
- operational
- First seen
- 2021-01-01
- ID
c10a7ce6-7528-4dde-acb4-fac5ad3a8e45
Sources (2)
- Built Robotics — autonomous construction equipment · https://www.builtrobotics.com/
- Built Robotics customers: Mortenson, Sundt, Skanska, Kiewit · https://www.builtrobotics.com/about
Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-06-12
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-06-12
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: commercial
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: construction
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Exosystem at United States.Common questions
- What is the Exosystem deployment at United States?
- Exosystem, built by Built Robotics, is recorded as a deployment at United States on the DEPLOY registry. Built Robotics operates the deployment directly.
- Who operates Exosystem at United States?
- Built Robotics, the manufacturer of Exosystem, operates this deployment directly. This is a maker-deploys-its-own-product arrangement rather than a customer pilot.
- When did the Exosystem deployment at United States go live?
- The deployment is recorded as starting January 1, 2021 on the DEPLOY registry. Earlier activity may exist but is not yet sourced.
- Have there been incidents at the Exosystem deployment at United States?
- No active incidents affecting this deployment are recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Absence of recorded incidents is not a guarantee no incident occurred; DEPLOY records only sourced incidents and suppresses retracted ones.
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