Advanced Construction Robotics opens order book for rebar-tying workhorse

Sources: Advanced Construction Robotics, Pittsburgh; CP staff

Advanced Construction Robotics plans Q1 2025 delivery of initial orders for TyBOT 3.0, the next generation of an automated rebar tying machine previously offered on a project-by-project, “Robot as a Service” terms. Over the past six years, ACR and contractor partners have demonstrated prior TyBOT versions on 60-plus jobs, primarily bridge decks, in 14 states, totaling 4 million-plus ties. The machines can yield 1,100 ties per hour depending on bar size and spacing. TyBOT 3.0 premiers in a standard model suiting work areas up to 67-ft. wide, configurable for expanded widths to 117 feet.

TyBOT 3.0 will extend the productivity of the 2.0 model, shown here at a mid-2024 Kiewit Corp. project in North Carolina, where subcontractor DT Read Steel Co. secured 58,000 ties on a 25,150-sq.-ft. deck.

“Offering TyBOT for sale represents our commitment to creating disruptive solutions that will redefine how the world builds, driving unprecedented efficiency, safety, and innovation across a wider range of construction applications,” says ACR Founder and Executive Chairman Stephen Muck.

“With over 65 field deployments nationwide, TyBOT has proven that it provides customers at least 25 percent savings in their installation operations and is quickly becoming an accepted tool of the trade by rodbusters,” adds CEO Danielle Proctor. “We’ve seen a tremendous increase in demand for TyBOT as well as our second product, IronBOT, the Rebar Placing Robot. Our planned evolution from product design and adoption through Robot as a Service to offering our BOTs for purchase reflects confidence in our team’s ability to quickly provide mature products that reliably solve real-world problems.”