The Current Status and Key Issues in the Future on Automation and Robotics in Construction in Germany

This article describes the state of art, relating to automized processes, in different fields of the German construction industry. First the German demands for future construction efforts are shown and the specialities of the German construction sites are presented. Then the actual state of the art of different autornized construction systems used in Germany is presented. Compared to a country like Japan, in Germany the efforts to automize construction processes are just in the beginning. Therefore the most popular prototypes of automated construction machinery are presented and intended developments until the year 2010 are shown.