Shimizu Corporation · working robot
Robo-Buddy
A two-armed robot on a lifting pedestal atop an automatic guided vehicle that picks up boards of up to 30 kg and fixes them to ceilings and floors.
- Price
- —In-house system, not sold
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- 30 kgCarries more than 23%
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
A pilot use machine from Shimizu Corporation.
Real-world use
Tested installing boards at the Shin-Osaka high-rise hotel site in 2018.
Timeline
- Released
- 2018
Maker
Shimizu CorporationCompanyHow it stacks up
Against other working & field robots that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Robo-Buddy carries more than 23% of the 84 other working & field robots that publish a payload. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: height, weight, speed, joints, battery, price.
Public attention
How much public attention Robo-Buddy gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- No recent press stories listed yet
Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-14; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
No component details published yet.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- How it runs
- Fully autonomous. Does its job with nobody at the controls.
Lineage
Every Shimizu Corporation machine in order.
Made, sold and where
No production or sales figures published yet.
- Price
- Not publishedIn-house system, not sold
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every robot: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. How we choose
| Measure | Robo-BuddyShimizu Corporation |  Hadrian XFBR Ltd (Fastbrick Robotics)Same job: construction · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots |  Autonomous Caterpillar 725 articulated dump truck retrofitSafeAI with Obayashi CorporationSame job: construction · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots |  Canvas drywall finishing robot (Canvas Finishing System)Canvas (core technology acquired by JLG Industries, 2026)Same job: construction · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots |
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| First shown | 2018-04-24 | 2018-06 | 2020-10 | 2020-11 |
| Status | Pilot use | Commercial | Pilot use | Commercial |
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| Payload | 30 kg | 45 kg | — | — |
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Sources
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