World’s First Lifting, Carrying, Placing Rebar Robot Wins Innovation Award

Advanced Construction Robotics (ACR) has been named one of the 2024 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards recipients for the development of IronBot, the world’s first lifting, carrying, and placing concrete rebar robot.

Presented by The Robot Report, the RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards have been recognizing innovations in the robotics industry for 12 years.

"The incredible work of this year's RBR50 winners represents the cutting edge of robotics and raises the bar for the industry,” said Steve Crowe, executive editor, Robotics, WTWH Media.

All the honorees will be recognized and celebrated at the inaugural RBR50 Gala on May 1 during the Robotics Summit and Expo in Boston.

"Receiving the RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award highlights our disruptive solutions to reinforcing rebar installation," said Stephen M. Muck, Founder and Executive Chairman of Advanced Construction Robotics. "This award endorses our technology and its impact on the construction industry to enhance the efficiency, safety, and sustainability of infrastructure projects.”

ACR’s introduction into the field was TyBot, an autonomous robotic rebar-tying system. It was envisioned as the company’s first in a line of autonomous robotic construction equipment.

IronBot places rebar on the St. Lucie West Boulevard Bridge expansion project in St. Lucie County, FloridaAdvanced Construction RoboticsLast year, ACR released its second rebar-installing robot, IronBOT. While TyBOT, self-ties horizontal rebar intersections, IronBOT lifts, carries, and places rebar. Able to work day or night, combined, in what the company refers to as the “Bot Bundle,” the two robots can cut rebar installation on a project in half.