Automated Architecture (AUAR) licenses its tech stack of robotic micro-factories and AI to enable home-builders to deliver low-energy timber affordable homes
The latest round of seed funding secured £2.6m for Automated Architecture (AUAR)’s mission of building affordable homes using robotic micro-factories.
The investment will also support the company’s growth of its partner license network with ten more partners and expanding operations in the US.
Deploying automation through micro-factories
The company licenses its low CapEx robotic micro-factories and tech stack to a network of existing home builders in Europe and North America, creating a massive revenue opportunity for these companies to deliver low-energy, sustainable timber homes at the price of normal homes and at scale.
AUAR’s design algorithms can generate endless design variations adapted to local sites.
The company offers a different vision for the built environment, where automation is not centralised into large factories but empowers local ecosystems of communities, contractors, architects and developers to build better homes.
They are targeting 40 license partners for its micro-factories by 2030, with a capacity to produce over 75,000 energy-efficient homes and remove millions of tons of CO2 each year.
AUAR’s underlying data model makes all costs and other data known upfront to their clients and manufacturing partners. The company is already working with two pilot customers – Rival Holdings and Vandenbussche NV.
Robotics could be key to delivering sustainable housing at scale
The funding round was led by Miles Ahead, with participation from Robotics & Discrete Automation and Robotics & Automation Ventures (ABB RA Ventures), Rival Holdings, Morgan Stanley, and others.
AUAR was founded in 2019 by Mollie Claypool, CEO, and Gilles Retsin, CTO and Chief Architect, after working together for over a decade researching how robotics, generative design, and AI could radically transform housing and how we live.
Mollie Claypool, co-founder and CEO of AUAR, said, “There is a huge and urgent need for affordable low-energy homes, but currently, these are expensive to build and difficult to deliver at scale. Building high-quality, sustainable timber homes is hard to scale, but AUAR is here to change that.
“Robots and AI allow us to deliver high-quality housing at significantly lower costs, increasing margins and productivity while lowering the cost for the end users. By using our solution, construction companies are incentivised to meet much-needed sustainability targets.”
