Buying guide
Exosystem vs SAM100 in 2026
Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.
| Attribute | No image on file | |
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Built Robotics | Construction Robotics |
| Form factor | construction | construction |
| Maturity | commercial | commercial |
| Autonomy | — | — |
| Availability | internal-onlyenterprise | discontinueddiscontinued |
| Price | Not announced | Not announced |
| Capability claims | — | — |
| Brain | — | — |
| Verified deployments | 1Built Robotics | 1Construction Robotics |
| Privacy practices | — | — |
| Sources on file | 8 | 9 |
Editorial summaries
Exosystem
Built Robotics builds construction autonomy. The Exosystem is an autonomy kit that retrofits standard excavators for autonomous earthmoving and trenching, and the RPD 35 is a robotic solar pile driver that installs utility-scale solar piles several times faster than manual crews. It is enterprise B2B equipment sold to contractors, not a consumer product, so there is no consumer price. Built has raised funding for the Exosystem (about $64M per trade press). The registry has no structured deployment records yet; commercial use is documented via the model's sources.
SAM100
Construction Robotics (Victor, New York) is best known for the SAM100 (Semi-Automated Mason), a bricklaying robot designed to work alongside a human mason, and for the MULE (Material Unit Lift Enhancer), a material-lift-assist device. There is no consumer price, and the SAM100 bricklaying line is discontinued. The SAM100 reached commercial deployment with masonry contractors at its peak (recorded at commercial maturity historically), but it appears wound down: the company's homepage now leads with the MULE lift-assist product and the dedicated SAM page is no longer prominently maintained, indicating a pivot to the MULE line. Throughput claims such as roughly 3,000 bricks per day are vendor- and press-stated, and there is no reliable current count of active SAM100 units, so the bricklaying line is best treated as historical. With FBR's pilot-stage Hadrian X, the SAM100 forms the bricklaying-automation cautionary pair: two different approaches to brick-laying robotics, one wound down and one stalled at pilot.
Common questions
- What is the difference between Exosystem and SAM100?
- Exosystem and SAM100 are both construction robots on the DEPLOY registry. They differ in maker, maturity, price, verified deployments, and how much of their autonomy is independently verified. See the table above for the full head-to-head; each figure is sourced.
Recent coverage
- Blattner awards Built Robotics 5M contract for autonomous constructionExosystem · Robotics Business Review · 2026-07-02
- Autonomous construction bots are building the solar infrastructure behind Meta's massive Hyperion data centerExosystem · AgentRecon · 2026-07-01
- Top 10: Construction Robotics - Construction DigitalSAM100 · Google News · 2026-03-25
- Retooled robotic mason brings added might to sitesSAM100 · AgentRecon · 2024-01-01
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