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Real jobs, used to find out what AI gets right and wrong in construction.
AI Data Labeling for Construction Robotics
How we label construction footage with AI, what it can label today, and how every label is verified.
The Seven Pillars of Physical AI: What Self-Driving Teaches Construction Robotics
Self-driving succeeded by building seven pillars in order. Construction robotics needs the same seven, and Metal America has four.
Construction AI Eval: Benchmarking LLMs on 387 Real Construction Questions
GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, DeepSeek, and Mistral on real pricing, specs, and policy questions, with and without retrieval.
Install Sequence Graph: A Task Graph for Robotic Construction
A directed task graph for concrete slab and steel building installation, with durations, tools, and failure modes from real jobs.
Vision-Language Models for Construction Progress Recognition
Five frontier VLMs classify build stage, next step, and completion from real job site photos.
Estimating Site Slope from Phone Photos with Vision-Language Models
VLMs and monocular depth versus USGS 3DEP elevation data on 106 real slab sites.
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