Partnership
nLink x Hilti
Hilti acquired 37% of nLink as strategic investor and collaboratively developed the Jaibot drilling robot, launched globally in October 2020. The partnership combines nLink's mobile robotics expertise with Hilti's construction industry distribution and product platform.
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- development
- Status
- Activeoperating
- Announced
- 2017-08-149 years ago
- Start
- 2017-08-149 years ago
- Active for
- 9 years
Who’s involved
nLink is a Norwegian construction robotics company that developed the world's first mobile drilling robot for ceiling drilling, automating a physically demanding task that causes musculoskeletal injuries in construction workers. Founded in 2014 in Sogndal, the company won the RoboBusiness Pitchfire startup competition and later partnered with [Hilti](/companies/hilti), which became a 37% strategic investor and collaboratively launched the Jaibot drilling robot in October 2020. nLink offers its robots as a service and has expanded its robotics engineering expertise to adjacent industries.
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Liechtenstein-based [Construction](/companies/construction-robotics) technology company developing autonomous construction robots including the Jaibot semi-autonomous drilling robot for MEP installation. CHF 6.3B revenue in 2025.
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