What We're Watching: How Monumental Builds Its Bricklaying Robot

Not your typical plant floor—but the engineering process behind Monumental's autonomous bricklaying robot is worth watching. A look inside how one hardware engineer builds and troubleshoots a robot meant to work construction sites solo.
July 29, 2026
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This week's What We're Watching pick comes from Monumental, a construction robotics company—not a manufacturing equipment maker in the traditional sense. But stick with us: the video is a useful look at how a hardware engineer approaches building an autonomous robot from the ground up, including the design tradeoffs, testing, and real-world troubleshooting that go into it. For anyone interested in robotics engineering practices, regardless of industry, it's worth the watch.

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Laura Davis

Editor-in-Chief, New Equipment Digest

Laura Davis is the editor in chief of New Equipment Digest (NED), a brand part of the Manufacturing Group at EndeavorB2B. NED covers all products, equipment, solutions, and technology related to the broad scope of manufacturing, from mops and buckets to robots and automation. Laura has been a manufacturing product writer for eight years, knowledgeable about the ins and outs of the industry, along with what readers are looking for when wanting to learn about the latest products on the market.

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