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Built Robotics Partners with International Union of Operating Engineers for Training

Organization: Built Robotics
Country: United States
State: CA
Website: www.builtrobotics.com
Year Founded: 2016
Number of Employees: 11-50

Built Robotics is helping construction workers familiarize themselves with and accept robotic technology.

Description:
Built Robotics, a San Francisco-based startup that transforms heavy equipment into autonomous robots with its AI guidance system, partnered with the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE). Founded in 1896, the IUOE represents 400,000-plus members, primarily construction workers who work as heavy equipment operators, mechanics, surveyors, and stationary engineers.

The multi-year partnership will train IUOE members to oversee and manage robotic equipment, as well as work alongside autonomous machines. Built Robotics will provide its guidance systems to the IUOE’s International Training & Education Center near Houston. IUOE members will be trained to install, operate, and repair robots in realistic job-site conditions.

Analysis:
The construction industry has not been known to embrace cutting-edge technologies with open arms. By partnering with the IUOE, one of the largest and most historic construction institutions in North America, Built Robotics is getting its technology into the hands of more skilled operators. This will help construction workers familiarize themselves with and accept robotic technology, which is often a barrier to adoption in many industries.

Built Robotics’ technology can help fill an impending labor shortage facing the construction industry. According to the non-profit National Center for Construction Education and Research, many current heavy equipment operators are close to retirement age. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates such jobs will grow 10% between 2018 and 2028, twice the rate for all occupations.

Finally, this partnership is noteworthy as other unions have not embraced automation. In 2017, for example, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, a union representing truck drivers across North America, helped convince the U.S. Senate to exclude autonomous trucks from draft legislation on self-driving vehicles, which has been a major setback for the technology. - Steve Crowe

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