Construction robotics startup Origin has raised $20 million in funding to deploy more of its OG-1 robot, expand its fleet and run customer pilots in the United States and Europe, as the company targets automation of labour-intensive interior construction work.
The funding round was co-led by Accel and Zacua Ventures, with participation from Unilazer Ventures, Schema Ventures, Z21 and angel investors associated with Anduril, Skild AI, 1X and Tesla, according to a report by Business Standard. Origin emerged from stealth with the new funding and plans to use the capital primarily for robot deployment and manufacturing expansion.
Origin said OG-1 is currently capable of autonomously completing wall-finishing workflows. The robot applies compound, sands and primes walls, and is designed to operate on a three-wheeled platform with a 360-degree view of its surroundings. It can work at heights of up to 14 feet and perform contact-intensive tasks such as sanding through real-time force control that maintains pressure against a wall.
The company said the robot is designed to work alongside construction crews while other trades continue on a live site. It does not require a separate cordoned-off work area, according to the report. Origin has deployed its first robots on job sites in New York and is currently using OG-1 across commercial spaces, multifamily apartments, data centres, hotels and warehouses.
The next phase includes large-scale customer pilots with two of the largest drywall-finishing contractors in the US. Additional pilots are scheduled in Germany, Sweden, France and Saudi Arabia. Origin also plans to extend the platform to other interior trades, including taping, drywall installation, drilling and conduit installation.
The robot is powered by Origin’s Construction Action Model, which the company describes as a construction-specific physical artificial intelligence system. It combines a reasoning system for planning and coordinating tasks, an action policy that allows the robot to navigate and identify work areas, and a controller that translates those decisions into precise movements. Origin said the model is trained using simulation and data collected from live job sites.
Yogesh Ghaturle, Origin’s co-founder and chief executive, said interior construction remained largely manual even as heavy exterior work had become more mechanised. He said interior work accounted for more than 65 per cent of construction timelines. Ghaturle also said the company had spent 18 months developing and testing its robots before emerging from stealth.
Origin was founded in early 2025 by Ghaturle, Ashish Daga and Tushar Makkar. Ghaturle 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 worked on precision automation hardware at Morphle Labs.
Zacua Ventures’ Construction Robotics Report 2026, cited in the report, said construction robotics attracted $1.36 billion in venture funding in the first three quarters of 2025. That was 125 per cent higher than the $612 million raised during all of 2024. The report also said robots accounted for less than 0.03 per cent of global construction spending.
Origin said its platform is ready for manufacturing at scale and is targeting the deployment of 150 robots by the end of 2027. The company also said its robots were operating at three times human speed while delivering human-level quality, claims attributed to Ghaturle in the report.
