Construction robots are tackling America’s housing shortage, but we’re a long way from humanoid homebuilders

America’s housing industry is under pressure to build more homes with a shrinking pool of skilled labor. Robotics and automation offer one potential answer, but the biggest gains so far are not coming from humanoid robots replacing workers on construction sites.

They are coming from narrower applications: machines that prevent mistakes, coordinate trades, and automate repetitive work, along with factories that move more of the construction process into controlled environments, say industry experts. LEARN MORE...