Humanoid construction robots, designed to carry out various site tasks, could be available en masse as a service early in the next decade.

Nuclear decommissioning engineers are testing a Smurf – not one of the little blue people, but a Symbiotic Multi-Robot Fleet (SMuRF).

A team at Switzerland’s ETH Zürich university has unveiled an autonomous excavator that can build dry ​stone walls from randomly shaped boulders and concrete rubble.

Barratt Developments, Mace and Skanska are among the major contractors set to drive conformance with the Code for Construction Product Information (CCPI) through their supply chains.

Insurance giant Axa UK is providing body cameras to contractors in order to keep a record of remediation work being carried out on buildings that contain flammable cladding and insulation.

The Vinci Building/Sir Robert McAlpine JV, Integrated Health Projects, is testing the final version of the HP SitePrint robot site printer at Derby Kingsway hospital.

Autodesk has launched Forma, an industry cloud that it claims will unify workflows across the teams that design, build and operate the built environment.

Steel specialist SH Structures faced many challenges when modelling, fabricating, supplying and assembling key parts of a footbridge in north-west Glasgow for Scottish Canals and Balfour Beatty.

Autonomous and automated technology needs to enable faster decision-making and deliver lower overhead costs if UK contractors are to adopt it on a wider basis.

An American robotics company, Sarcos, has completed a pilot project that uses robots to install photovoltaic panels.

15 council-led projects have been awarded a total of £3.2m to further digitalise local planning.

North London’s Highgate Cemetery – the final resting place for the likes of Karl Marx, Douglas Adams, George Eliot, and Jeremy Beadle – is being captured digitally as part of a 25-year masterplan to preserve the Victorian landmark.

Are you using consumer messaging apps within project teams? Have you considered their impact in the age of the golden thread? John Ryan has and he offers this warning.

Are you ready to revolutionise the way you design and plan your projects? Text-to-image AI may be the answer, suggests Louis Trümpler.

The Climate Resilience Demonstrator, the connected digital twin of critical infrastructure, has moved to its next phase: cross-sector data sharing.

Investing in mobile mapping technology is necessary for businesses to be seen as innovators and to establish a competitive edge, according to a state of the nation survey from NavVis.

HP has launched a site printing robot that marks up plans on construction sites, generating significant productivity gains.

Robots continue their march: there’s now a robot that can carry out predictive rail maintenance robot.