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Desire Athow

‘Construction sites are probably one of the hardest environments you could ask an autonomous system to operate in’: Are autonomy and robotics gaining momentum in the industry?

A person walking through a data center with a tablet.

In an era increasingly dominated by AI and automation, it’s still incredible just how much construction work remains manual. The contrast is most stark in data centers – facilities built to power cutting-edge technology, but whose delivery is generally still slowed down by major fragmentation and time-consuming manual tasks.

One of the industry’s biggest challenges seems to be capturing and understanding what’s actually happening on a project. Project managers can spend countless hours walking sites, checking completed work and coordinating contractors operating to different schedules. When documentation falls behind, small issues can go unnoticed and eventually develop into costly delays.

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