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Built Robotics Inc.

Built Robotics Inc. surprisingly shows a consistent decline in patenting across its core areas, with its largest category, Industrial & Autonomous Control (63.3% of portfolio), experiencing a -16.7% YoY drop in 2025 and a significant -80.0% decline so far in 2026, suggesting a shift away from aggressive patenting in established technologies despite its focus on autonomous construction.

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Yearly patent publications since 2023

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Product-level themes inferred from filings since 2023, with category chips showing where each theme appears. Select a theme to filter the patents below.

60 US filings (since 2023) · 8 categories · 6 themes

Autonomous Machine Control

Systems and methods for enabling earth-moving machines to perform tasks with reduced or no human intervention, often leveraging predictive models, sensor fusion, and coordinated multi-machine operations.

Excavating & Earth-Moving
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27since 2023
-37.5%YoY
Specialized Excavation Techniques

Methods and apparatus for performing non-standard or highly specific excavation tasks, such as underwater harvesting, material screening, or earth removal with structural reinforcement.

Excavating & Earth-Moving
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20since 2023
+100.0%YoY
Autonomous Path Planning

Algorithms and systems for generating, optimizing, and executing trajectories for autonomous vehicles or robots to move through an environment, often involving obstacle avoidance, route validation, and goal reaching.

Industrial & Autonomous ControlManipulators & Robotics
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19since 2023
+83.3%YoY
Machine Perception & Sensing

Integration of diverse sensors and machine perception algorithms to gather and interpret data about the machine's environment, its own state, and subsurface conditions for improved operation, safety, and mapping.

Excavating & Earth-Moving
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9since 2023
0.0%YoY
Advanced Work Tool Designfiltered

Innovations in the mechanical design, modularity, and enhanced functionality of excavator attachments and implements, including multi-axis rotation, specialized grapples, and integrated compaction tools.

Excavating & Earth-Moving
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9since 2023
-80.0%YoY
Sensor-based Environment Perception

Techniques and hardware for autonomous systems to gather and interpret data about their surroundings, including obstacle detection, object recognition, and depth estimation, to inform control decisions.

Industrial & Autonomous Control
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4since 2023
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Patents

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Advanced Work Tool Design
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US 20210047806 A1APPLICATION
E02F9/26

EARTH SHAPING VEHICLE RETROFITTED WITH REAR GRADING TOOL

Filed:2020-08-12Pub:2021-02-18
Applicant:Built Robotics Inc.

An earth shaping vehicle (ESV) includes a chassis and a rear earth shaping tool. The chassis drives the ESV through the site from a first location in the site to a second location in the site. The front earth shaping tool moves earth from the first location to the second location. The rear earth shaping tool grades a ground surface between first location and the second location. Sensors coupled to the rear excavation tool produce one or more signals representative of a position and an orientation of the rear tool relative to the ground surface of the site. A controller produces actuating signals to actuate the rear excavation tool to grade the ground surface based on the one or more signals representative of the position and the orientation of the rear tool.

US 10920395 B1GRANTED
E02F3/43

Excavating earth from a dig site using an excavation vehicle

Filed:2020-10-08Pub:2021-02-16
Applicant:BUILT ROBOTICS INC.

This description provides an autonomous or semi-autonomous excavation vehicle that is capable of navigating through a dig site and carrying out an excavation routine using a system of sensors physically mounted to the excavation vehicle. The sensors collect any one or more of spatial, imaging, measurement, and location data representing the status of the excavation vehicle and its surrounding environment. Based on the collected data, the excavation vehicle executes instructions to carry out an excavation routine. The excavation vehicle is also able to carry out numerous other tasks, such as checking the volume of excavated earth in an excavation tool and helping prepare a digital terrain model of the site as part of a process for creating the excavation routine.

US 20210040706 A1APPLICATION
E02F3/43

Checking Volume In An Excavation Tool

Filed:2020-10-26Pub:2021-02-11
Applicant:Built Robotics Inc.

This description provides an autonomous or semi-autonomous excavation vehicle that is capable of navigating through a dig site and carrying out an excavation routine using a system of sensors physically mounted to the excavation vehicle. The sensors collects any one or more of spatial, imaging, measurement, and location data representing the status of the excavation vehicle and its surrounding environment. Based on the collected data, the excavation vehicle executes instructions to carry out an excavation routine. The excavation vehicle is also able to carry out numerous other tasks, such as checking the volume of excavated earth in an excavation tool, and helping prepare a digital terrain model of the site as part of a process for creating the excavation routine.

US 10914049 B1GRANTED
E02F3/43

Excavating earth from a dig site using an excavation vehicle

Filed:2020-10-08Pub:2021-02-09
Applicant:BUILT ROBOTICS INC.

This description provides an autonomous or semi-autonomous excavation vehicle that is capable of navigating through a dig site and carrying out an excavation routine using a system of sensors physically mounted to the excavation vehicle. The sensors collect any one or more of spatial, imaging, measurement, and location data representing the status of the excavation vehicle and its surrounding environment. Based on the collected data, the excavation vehicle executes instructions to carry out an excavation routine. The excavation vehicle is also able to carry out numerous other tasks, such as checking the volume of excavated earth in an excavation tool and helping prepare a digital terrain model of the site as part of a process for creating the excavation routine.

US 20210032839 A1APPLICATION
E02F3/43

EXCAVATING EARTH FROM A DIG SITE USING AN EXCAVATION VEHICLE

Filed:2020-10-08Pub:2021-02-04
Applicant:BUILT ROBOTICS INC.

This description provides an autonomous or semi-autonomous excavation vehicle that is capable of navigating through a dig site and carrying out an excavation routine using a system of sensors physically mounted to the excavation vehicle. The sensors collect any one or more of spatial, imaging, measurement, and location data representing the status of the excavation vehicle and its surrounding environment. Based on the collected data, the excavation vehicle executes instructions to carry out an excavation routine. The excavation vehicle is also able to carry out numerous other tasks, such as checking the volume of excavated earth in an excavation tool and helping prepare a digital terrain model of the site as part of a process for creating the excavation routine.

US 20210032838 A1APPLICATION
E02F3/43

EXCAVATING EARTH FROM A DIG SITE USING AN EXCAVATION VEHICLE

Filed:2020-10-08Pub:2021-02-04
Applicant:BUILT ROBOTICS INC.

This description provides an autonomous or semi-autonomous excavation vehicle that is capable of navigating through a dig site and carrying out an excavation routine using a system of sensors physically mounted to the excavation vehicle. The sensors collect any one or more of spatial, imaging, measurement, and location data representing the status of the excavation vehicle and its surrounding environment. Based on the collected data, the excavation vehicle executes instructions to carry out an excavation routine. The excavation vehicle is also able to carry out numerous other tasks, such as checking the volume of excavated earth in an excavation tool and helping prepare a digital terrain model of the site as part of a process for creating the excavation routine.

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