Robot model
Exosystem
Built Robotics (San Francisco; founder Noah Ready-Campbell; about $112M raised) makes autonomous construction heavy-equipment systems: the Exosystem, an…
- Manufacturer
- Built Robotics
- Form factor
- construction
- Maturity
- commercial
- Lifecycle
- active
- Deployments
- 5
- Website
- builtrobotics.com ↗
The verified answer
As of Sep 2026, DEPLOY verifies Exosystem, a construction by Built Robotics (commercial): 5 verified deployments on record. 6 sources back the record.
Overview
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.
Verified vs. claimed
- Maturity stage
- commercial(Commercially deployed with revenue-generating operations.)
- Sources on file
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Key facts
Funding raised
Series C
Autonomy level
Customers
Throughput claim
Specs
Notes
Products
Form Factor
Data & sources
Press releases
1
News coverage
3
Web sources
2
6 sources backing this record.View all →
Availability and pricing
- Availability
- Not sold (internal use)
- Price
- Not publicly disclosed
- Units in field
- Not disclosed
- Sales model
- Not disclosed
- Lead time
- Not disclosed
Pricing
No verified price is on record for Exosystem. Physical-AI systems are often sold through enterprise contracts or operated as a service rather than at a public list price.
Deployments (5)
- Exosystem at United Statesoperational
Autonomous truck operating at Luck Stone Bull Run quarry
- Exosystem at United Statesoperational
Bechtel uses Built Robotics autonomous pile-drivers on construction projects
- Exosystem at Texas, USAoperational
Bechtel uses Built Robotics excavators for trenching on solar projects in Texas
- Exosystem at United Statesoperational
Dozens of autonomous pile drivers deployed across Blattner solar projects in the US
- Exosystem at United Statesoperational
Exosystem (Built Robotics) operating in United States.
Exosystem on the deployment map
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Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Deployment recordedSep 9, 2026
at United States
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 8, 2026
Robots for the Solar Energy Revolution: The RPD 35 from Built Robotics
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 5, 2026
Built Robotics Exosystem autonomous-excavator kit
- Record createdJun 3, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment recordedJan 7, 2026
at United States
Deployment-verified media (2)
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.
From deployment: United States
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.
From deployment: United States
Safety record
No incidents on record for Exosystem.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Sources (6)
- https://www.builtrobotics.com/solutions/solar-piling
- https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/07/built-robotics-raises-another-64m-to-make-construction-equipment-autonomous/
- https://www.therobotreport.com/built-robotics-digs-up-64m-for-construction-vehicle-autonomy-kits/
- https://www.therobotreport.com/built-robotics-develops-autonomous-solar-piling-robot/
- https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2023/04/27/robotic-solar-pile-driver-three-times-faster-than-humans/
- https://www.equipmentworld.com/equipment-controls/autonomous/article/15290627/built-robotics-raises-64-million-for-robotic-excavator-exosystem
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Methodology: Verified · 6 sources (1 primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-12
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-07-12
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: commercial
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: construction
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- secondary-trade-publication
- Trade publication
- 2
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 1
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
- 1
- secondary-industry-publication
- Industry publication
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Exosystem.Recent coverage
Exosystem in third-party press
Attention vs reality over time
Media mentions per month (area) against verified deployment events (dots). A press spike over a flat deployment line is the hype gap, drawn over time.
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Exosystem from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Blattner awards Built Robotics 5M contract for autonomous construction
Blattner awarded Built Robotics 5M contract to scale autonomous construction systems for energy infrastructure projects.
Autonomous construction bots are building the solar infrastructure behind Meta's massive Hyperion data center
Built Robotics' retrofitted autonomous pile drivers are installing up to 1,000 steel beams per day at a Louisiana solar site powering Meta's Hyperion data center.
Built Robotics raises 4 million for robotic excavator Exosystem
Built Robotics raised 4M for its Exosystem, an aftermarket kit for autonomous excavators. The company also announced the RPD 35 autonomous solar pile driver.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /models/built-exosystem.md
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/models/0988c066-308a-49f7-ba10-705cada31a4e
- Revision history: /models/built-exosystem/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Buyer-facing pricing: deploy.report/price/built-exosystem
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Reality vs attention
Exosystem draws attention at the 69th percentile but verifies reality at the 94th percentile among construction robots. Hype Gap -25.3, 21st widest among construction robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Thin deployment record; scale validation still in progress.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Sep 2, 2026