...Tirth Patel; Hirakraj Bapat; Daksh Patel Purpose Despite global advancements, the Indian construction industry lags in adopting technologies like robots, artificial intelligence, drones, unmanned ground vehicles and Internet of Things sensors due to various barriers. This reliance on traditional...

... stakeholders, decision-makers, policymakers and the government in mapping out strategies to promote the incorporation and deployment of automation and robotics in the construction industry. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is one of the first in developing countries...

...Thomas Linner; Wen Pan; Rongbo Hu; Charlie Zhao; Kepa Iturralde; Meysam Taghavi; Julian Trummer; Marcel Schlandt; Thomas Bock Purpose Because of the sharply growing interest worldwide of “hard” physical-mechanical robot systems for the execution of on-site construction tasks [i.e. single-task...