Automated Architecture (AUAR)

Robotic micro-factories for sustainable timber housing

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21-100 employees
  • B2B
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Sustainability
  • Hardware
  • Deep Tech
  • Robotics
  • Construction
  • Automation
London, UK

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Company mission

To make high-quality, sustainable housing faster, easier, and more affordable.

Our take

The construction industry's reliance on traditional building methods, labour shortages and supply chain complexities are hindering productivity, resulting in £1.6tn/year unrealised revenue globally. An industry starved of innovation, traditional building methods are inefficient, unproductive, and over-reliant on emission-intensive brick, concrete and steel. Alternative approaches like modular construction and mobile micro-factories lack automation, requiring manual construction which reduces speed and increases costs/Co2-emissions.

Automated Architecture (AUAR) 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. This disruptive low-CapEx, low-OpEx approach makes building sustainable and affordable housing commercially viable for small, medium and large home-builders.

The operation line works by factory/warehouse-based robots pulling timber panels off the shelves to then be assembled into one or two-story houses. The cleverly designed panel variations can be used for different designs again pushing efficiency and lack of waste to the forefront of the company's mission. The company has recently secured significant funding and aims to have over 100,000 carbon-negative homes built by 2030, so it will definitely be an exciting one to watch.

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Benefits

  • Paid leave well above US norms
  • Share options that reflect long-term trust
  • Flexible working (where possible)

Leadership

Mollie Claypool

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Mollie has been an Associate Professor at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London since 2021 (and a Lecturer in Architecture from 2015-2021).

Gilles Retsin

(Co-Founder, CTO & Chief Architect)

Gilles is also an Associate Professor at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Previously, they were a Lecturer at The Bartlett School of Architecture and The University of East London.

Ivo Tedbury

(Co-Founder & VP of Engineering)

Previously co-founded Semblr Technologies.