With new funding, Monumental plans to bring its construction robots to the U.S.

Monumental designs, machines, and maintains robots that lay bricks at construction sites. | Source: Monumental

Monumental, an Amsterdam-based provider of construction robotics and software, this week raised $32 million in Series B funding. The company said it plans to use the financing to expand to the U.S. this year and to enable its robots to do more things.

“The funding will help to grow our world-class team of hardware and software engineers, launch the company in the U.S. this year, scale the number of robots it can deploy across Europe, and expand the range of construction tasks the robots can handle beyond bricklaying,” Salar al Khafaji, co-founder and CEO of Monumenal, told The Robot Report .

Monumental acts as a subcontractor during construction work. Contractors pay the company for finished walls rather than for robots. This, Monumental said, removes the financial and technical risk of owning and operating equipment.

“Our goal isn’t to replace people, but to give the industry the additional capacity it desperately needs,” al Khafaji said. “By taking on repetitive bricklaying work, the robots allow skilled workers to focus on higher-value tasks while helping the industry build more homes and infrastructure despite persistent labor shortages.”

Monumental’s electric, autonomous robots use advanced sensors, computer vision, and cranes to lay brick and mortar with millimeter precision. Atrium, the company’s AI software platform, operates all of this.

“Our robots autonomously build masonry structures by laying bricks and applying mortar on active construction sites alongside a human crew,” al Khafaji said. “They are also able to pick up special tools for additional tasks, such as inserting wall ties and pointing the mortar. They handle the repetitive, physically demanding bricklaying process with millimeter precision, working directly from digital building plans through our proprietary software, Atrium.”

Already, Monumental’s robots have built the walls of more than 100 homes across the Netherlands and the U.K., along with a school, a community center, a hotel, and canal walls.

“Humans remain responsible for the broader construction process,” al Khafaji continued. “The existing crew continues to manage the overall project, prepare the site, coordinate with other trades, and perform all work outside of the masonry process. Monumental’s own operators deploy and oversee the robots, replenish materials, perform maintenance, and intervene if an unexpected situation arises that requires human judgment. Human operators are an important part of the process to make sure that everything that happens on a job site is handled safely.”