GOLDEN, Colo. — Construction is underway on a new research facility at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Among the many human construction workers is a specialized robot that was created as a potential solution to a worker shortage in the construction industry.

Hilti launched the Jaibot drilling robot in 2019 as the first commercialized semi-autonomous layout and drilling robot. This is the first time the technology is being used in Colorado.

"We were the first to come up with a machine that you could load with digital content, bring to a site, position it, and then it would do its own tasks by reaching to the ceiling and drilling the holes in the right location to the right depth," Craig Maiwald, robotics business development manager with Hilti, explained.

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