Join us at the 4th Annual Project Production Institute Technical Conference on July 29, where our CTO Rishabh Aggarwal and Robotics Deployment Lead Kenrick T. will co-present a decision framework built from 10 commercial deployments across 8 states with 9 GCs. Rishabh and Kenrick will cover when to invest in the product, when to build an operator workaround, and what 4,500+ robot-hours of field data tells us about getting that call right. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gHstBSjG
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http://raiserobotics.ai
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- Construction
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- 2-10 employees
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- San Francisco, CA
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2021
- Specialties
- robotics, construction, construction tech, automation, curtainwall, glazing, and tech
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What 5,000 Autonomous Hours in Heavy Industry Taught Us I wrote a piece for Engineering News-Record, and it is not the optimistic version you usually get from someone who runs a robotics company. It is about the failures, because those are the parts that actually taught us something. Our robots have now logged more than 5,000 semi-autonomous hours across 18 projects, including a completed 13-story building in Nashville. Along the way, an arm emergency-stopped on an 8th floor slab in Austin because the cold stiffened its joint lubricant and the force sensors read that resistance as a collision. A sealed, waterproof chassis in Nashville still went down, because condensation froze on a circuit board inside the enclosure. Sealed is not the same as controlled. Our lidar once saw empty space where a thin overhead pipe actually hung, and a human operator caught it before the arm ran into it. Each of those failures changed the fleet and provided design feedback which simulations/lab testing would not have shown that too within weeks The clearest proof came in Memphis, where a façade contractor had lost more than $100,000 to a layout error done by hand. We took over the scope and delivered 1/16-inch accuracy, zero rework, and a three-month payback. My argument is simple. Autonomy in heavy industry does not scale through longer development cycles or more impressive demos. It scales through how fast you deploy, how quickly you diagnose using root-cause what the site does to your machines, and then how do you keep the robot running regardless. If you work with robotics vendors, there is one test in here I would take onto any jobsite: at a demo, watch the field engineers and if they are bored running the robot then that means robot is doing its job. Read the full piece in ENR: https://lnkd.in/gfVPs49w I would be glad to hear how others are thinking about deployment velocity versus development cycles. #Robotics #ConstructionTech #Autonomy #HeavyIndustry #Construction
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Spent some time on a panel at San Francisco DeepTech Week, hosted by Startup Policy Forum, in a room of founders, investors, and policymakers. The sharpest exchanges came down to timelines. Founders pushed for patient capital. Investors pushed back on commercialization readiness. Both were right, and for years those two clocks have been out of sync. They are finally starting to line up. Anyone building physical systems knew they take a decade to mature. What changed is that the market now has examples. Nvidia and Waymo gave investors a real picture of the J curve, the long flat stretch before the steep climb. Patient capital in physical AI is no longer a leap of faith. The second thread was policy, and it gets far less airtime than it deserves. Technology does not proliferate on merit. Adoption follows incentives. Tax credits, procurement support, advocacy groups writing policy alongside government. The Consulate General of India, San Francisco walked us through initiatives like the RDI Fund and the Semiconductor Mission, a reminder of what government looks like as a partner rather than a bystander. Grateful to Shweta Rajpal Kohli & Shubhangi Poddar for inviting me and working on this initiative at Startup Policy Forum.
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"A robot that's 99% reliable fails once in every hundred attempts. In practice, that's a robot falling down the stairs about once a week." In the latest Raise blog post, Kenrick T., our Robotics Deployment Lead, shares what two years of deployments on real jobsites taught us about the gap between a robot that works in a demo and one you can actually rely on in real-world environments. The lessons come from 4,500+ autonomous hours across 10 deployments in 8 states. If you're evaluating robotics on your jobsite, this one's for you. https://lnkd.in/g4qweeH2
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Raise Robotics' CTO, Rishabh Aggarwal, is heading to AUTONOMOUS: The Future of Robotics & Physical AI this Thursday to moderate a panel on one of the most challenging problems in hardware: how to build and scale a team that actually ships. "Building a Robotics Team That Ships," brings together leaders from a range of industries (retail, construction, seafood, and the factory floor) all wrestling with the same hard truth: you can't hotfix steel. Expect war stories and real talk on the hires and rituals that keep a hardware team shipping discipline intact. Rishabh will be on stage with key industry leaders including: Tessa Lau, CEO, Dusty Robotics Jariullah Safi, VP of AI & Computer Vision, Simbe Robotics Reed Ginsberg, CTO, Shinkei Systems Mai Bui, Co-Founder & CEO, Quarter20 Join us: Building a Robotics Team That Ships Thursday, July 16 · 1:35 PM · Builders Stage AUTONOMOUS 2026, The Midway, San Francisco
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We're excited to release the 2026 Robotics Top 50 List, derived from survey data, direct industry research, member feedback, and case studies! As the industry continues to be plagued by widespread labor shortages, high accident and mortality rates, and stagnant productivity rates, construction robotics have emerged in the last few decades as a viable solution to many of construction's woes. From layout automation and robotic inspections to modular assembly and 3D printing, the solutions on this list demonstrate the myriad ways robotics have been successfully deployed across AEC and are already boosting productivity, providing additional skilled labor, sharpening precision, and enhancing worksite safety. This year's list spans three categories—Offsite Robotics, Automated Machinery & Related Solutions, and On-Site Robotics—with nine subcategories, further breaking down our scope of AEC robotics solutions. Congratulations to the solutions featured on this year's list! 👏 See the full list at the link in the comments. 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬: 𝟑𝐃 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 & 𝐀𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 Automated Architecture (AUAR), COBOD International, Icon, Mighty Buildings, and SQ4D 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬: 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 BotBuilt, Promise Robotics, Randek, and Toggle Robotics 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐲 & 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 & 𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 Bedrock Robotics, Built Robotics, Caterpillar Inc. Cat Command, Gravis Robotics, Komatsu Intelligent Machine Control, Pronto, Teleo, and Xpanner 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐲 & 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 BROKK and Conjet Group 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐲 & 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 Cyphra Autonomy, DaedongRobotics (대동로보틱스), FloMobility, GoLe Robotics, and KEWAZO LIFTBOT 𝐎𝐧-𝐒𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬: 𝐋𝐚𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐭 Civ Robotics, Dusty Robotics, HP SitePrint, Mechasys, and Rugged Robotics 𝐎𝐧-𝐒𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬: 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 Advanced Construction Robotics, Canvas (JLG), Finish Robotics, Monumental, MYRO, Okibo, and Raise Robotics 𝐎𝐧-𝐒𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬: 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 3D Robotics, Acuity Robotics, Boston Dynamics, Field AI, Flybotix, Gecko Robotics, Infravision, Scout DI, Skydio, and Voliro 𝐎𝐧-𝐒𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬: 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 Baubot, CSC Robotics, and Jaibot (by Hilti)
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Meet our moderators: Rishabh Aggarwal In 13 days, Rishabh will be on stage to moderate our panel Building a Robotics Team That Ships, with a lineup that includes Jariullah Safi (Simbe), Tessa Lau (Dusty Robotics), Reed Ginsberg (Shinkei), and Mai Bui (QUARTER20). Our final tier tickets are now on sale → autonomousfuture.co Rishabh is CTO of Raise Robotics, where he builds physical AI systems for some of the hardest environments a robot can work in: construction sites, factory floors, and heavy industry, where dust, vibration, and shifting conditions break off-the-shelf perception. He leads the development of autonomous mobile robots and perception systems built to work on live job sites rather than in controlled demos. His focus is on generalised perception for unstructured environments and scaling robot fleets into real deployment. If you're a startup or building a team to scale operations, you'll want to be at this talk. AUTONOMOUS is the premier physical AI & robotics event coming to San Francisco, July 16th. Built for founders, VCs, engineers and researchers to come together in a dedicated room. #PhysicalAI #Data #FoundationModels #Automation #Roboticsnews #robotics #AIevent #AUTONOMOUS
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"Robotics is solved" might be the most expensive sentence in venture right now. You've heard the pitch by now. Intelligence was the missing piece, foundation models and VLAs came along and filled it, hardware's mature and getting cheaper every quarter, so you just drop a model onto a dexterous arm and the rest sorts itself out. That's the story anyway. I was on the builder panel at Zacua Ventures Physical AI night during Deep Tech Week, and this is the gap I kept poking at. Thanks to Varad Mohod and Vivin Hegde having me on. Getting a robot working in the lab feels like the finish line but it's more like the first 10%. The real work starts the day you put it on an actual site. We got a good reminder of that recently. We had a robot on a live construction site, accuracy dialed in, everything looking clean, and then it slowly started drifting out of spec and none of us could figure out why. Took a while to chase down. Turned out a crew was drilling two floors below us, and that vibration was enough to nudge our total station by a fraction of a millimeter. You could barely measure it. It was still enough to throw off our reference and drag our accuracy with it. That's not something a benchmark warns you about. You find it at 7am with a client standing next to you, and no amount of model scale helps in that moment. Honestly that's the whole category. It's the stuff that doesn't demo well. Force and contact, perception when the lighting goes bad, planning a path through real clutter instead of a clean table. A machine that still behaves on day 300 the way it did on day 1. You have to know how to recover or throw an error when robot encounters something that wasn't anticipated. And then the deeply unglamorous job of fitting into an operation that already has its own rhythm and quota and a crew with strong opinions about your robot. A VLA folding a shirt on stage is genuinely impressive, but it's one robot doing one task in one setup, with one take that gets to perform on camera. The hard part is everything that comes after. The iteration loop once the thing actually meets the world, and then running that same loop across 20 or 30 machines on sites that refuse to hold still, where every new location throws in a variable you never priced in. This is why I think Physical AI has a branding problem. The phrase makes it sound like models running inside robots, when in practice it's hardware reliability, customer workflows, a long list of deployment scars, and the occasional machine that just refuses to do the obvious thing. Everyone demos the model. Deployment is what quietly decides who actually has a product. Thanks to Nikhil Ramaswamy and Holly Peck for being honest about their own scars on stage. It's rare to be in a room where people talk about the hard parts instead of the highlight reel. Builders, what has your experience been while deploying robots, do you feel foundational models was the missing piece for you ?
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Spent some time on a panel at San Francisco DeepTech Week, hosted by Startup Policy Forum, in a room of founders, investors, and policymakers. The sharpest exchanges came down to timelines. Founders pushed for patient capital. Investors pushed back on commercialization readiness. Both were right, and for years those two clocks have been out of sync. They are finally starting to line up. Anyone building physical systems knew they take a decade to mature. What changed is that the market now has examples. Nvidia and Waymo gave investors a real picture of the J curve, the long flat stretch before the steep climb. Patient capital in physical AI is no longer a leap of faith. The second thread was policy, and it gets far less airtime than it deserves. Technology does not proliferate on merit. Adoption follows incentives. Tax credits, procurement support, advocacy groups writing policy alongside government. The Consulate General of India, San Francisco walked us through initiatives like the RDI Fund and the Semiconductor Mission, a reminder of what government looks like as a partner rather than a bystander. Grateful to Shweta Rajpal Kohli & Shubhangi Poddar for inviting me and working on this initiative at Startup Policy Forum.
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Raise CTO Rishabh Aggarwal is headed to Deep Tech Week where he'll join a panel of founders and technical leaders discussing what it actually takes to deploy robotic systems in the real world, including why most pilots fail to scale, where founders underestimate complexity, and what customers need before they'll trust an autonomous system. Big thanks to Zacua Ventures, Western Alliance Innovation Banking Group, and Pilot for making this happen. If you're in SF next Tuesday, June 23rd, we'd love to see you there. Link in the comments.
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