Current Status of Automation and Robotics in Construction in Sweden

This paper gives a comprehensive description of the construction industry in Sweden, such as its magnitude, sectors and activity level. It also describes the development in the construction trade during the last decades both in general terms and in an R&D perspective. This background is furnished to put the automation efforts in the Swedish construction industry into proper context. A description follows of some automated systems and robotics in use at working sites today. Finally, two major R&D-projects and some minor ones are presented.