Construction robotics startup Origin has raised $20 million in total funding to deploy more of its OG-1 robot, expand its fleet and run large-scale customer pilots in the United States and Europe, marking a fresh push to automate interior work on live building sites.
The funding round was co-led by Accel and Zacua Ventures, with participation from Unilazer Ventures, Schema Ventures and Z21, as well as angel investors linked to Anduril, Skild AI, 1X and Tesla. Origin emerged from stealth on Thursday and said the capital would support manufacturing, deployments and expansion into additional interior construction trades.
Origin is currently piloting OG-1 with two of the largest drywall-finishing contractors in the US. Further pilots are scheduled in Germany, Sweden, France and Saudi Arabia. The company said the platform is being deployed across commercial spaces, multifamily apartments, data centres, hotels and warehouses.
OG-1 is a three-wheeled autonomous robot designed to perform multiple interior construction tasks from a single hardware platform. It currently completes wall-finishing workflows, including applying compound, sanding and priming walls. The robot can work at heights of up to 14 feet and uses real-time force control to maintain pressure during contact-heavy tasks such as sanding.
The company said OG-1 has a 360-degree view of its surroundings and is designed to work alongside construction crews while other trades continue on site. It does not require a separately cordoned-off work area, according to Origin. The system is intended to identify where work is required, select the appropriate tool and assess the quality of the finished work.
The robot is powered by Origin’s Construction Action Model, which combines a reasoning system, an action policy and a controller. The reasoning system plans and coordinates construction subtasks, while the action policy enables navigation and task execution. The controller translates those decisions into feedback-driven movements. Origin said the model is trained using high-fidelity simulation and data collected from live job sites.
Origin was founded in early 2025 by Yogesh Ghaturle, Ashish Daga and Tushar Makkar. Ghaturle, who is the company’s co-founder and chief executive, previously founded Perpule, which was acquired by Amazon in 2021. Makkar leads autonomy after working on artificial intelligence systems at Eightfold AI, while Daga heads hardware and previously built precision automation systems at Morphle Labs.
The company said it deployed its first robots on job sites in New York within 10 months of being founded. Ghaturle said Origin spent 18 months building before emerging from stealth to demonstrate the robots on real construction sites. He added that the robots were working at three times human speed while delivering human-level quality, although the claim was not independently assessed in the supplied report.
Origin plans to deploy 150 robots by the end of 2027. It also intends to extend the platform to taping, drywall installation, drilling and conduit installation while using the same hardware base and Construction Action Model.
The funding comes as investment in construction robotics increases, even though the technology remains a small part of the global construction economy. Zacua Ventures’ Construction Robotics Report 2026, cited by Business Standard, said the sector attracted $1.36 billion in venture funding in the first three quarters of 2025, compared with $612 million during all of 2024. The report also found that robots accounted for less than 0.03 per cent of global construction spending.
Zacua founding partner Vivin Hegde said many construction robots perform well in laboratory conditions but fail on live sites. Accel investor Anagh Prasad said Origin’s approach was based on developing a physical artificial intelligence model specifically for construction. The company’s next stated milestones are scaling manufacturing, expanding customer pilots and deploying its planned fleet across interior construction work.
