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RPD 35
An excavator converted by Built's Exosystem autonomy kit into a pile-driving robot that carries a cartridge of steel piles and drives each one to within about an inch using RTK GPS; Built says a two-person crew can install over 300 piles a day.
- Price
- —Rented as a service; price not published
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
Billed by its maker as the first fully autonomous solar piling system, combining survey, pile distribution, driving and inspection.
Real-world use
Utility-scale solar builders (Built says it has helped install over 3 GW of solar)
Timeline
- Released
- 2023
Maker
Built RoboticsCompany · founded 2016 · San Francisco, California, United StatesAbout $112M across Series A-C, including $64M Series C (April 2022) led by Tiger Global
Public attention
How much public attention RPD 35 gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 3 news stories from reputable press listed on this page
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Tracks
- How it runs
- Fully autonomous. It locates each pile spot by GPS and drives the piles by itself, while a small crew reloads it and watches the site.
- Hands
- Custom pile hammer and pile cartridge system; side sleds with baskets holding close to 200 piles
- Sensors & vision
- RTK GPS and survey sensors; vision system
- Compute
- Exosystem unit with liquid-cooled Intel Xeon processor and NVIDIA GPUs
- Other details
- Built on an excavator base; a two-person crew installs 300+ piles a day
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Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not publishedRented as a service; price not published
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Sold or delivered
- Offered as a service; first units deployed from Q4 2023
- Where it is sold or used
- San Francisco, United States
- Customers and pilots
- Utility-scale solar builders (Built says it has helped install over 3 GW of solar)
News
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- Built Robotics partners with Penn xLAB
Built said it has installed over 3 GW of solar and is building a construction world model.
The Robot Report - RPD 35 drives piles three times faster
pv magazine described the RPD 35's Xeon/NVIDIA computer and 300-pile daily rate.
pv magazine USA - Built announces RPD 35
Built Robotics launched a fully autonomous solar piling robot.
The Robot Report
Sources
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