Robotics Engineering for Real Estate and Building Operations

Engineering for running completed buildings: a robot-readiness survey, a pilot design for cleaning or delivery robots, a lift or door interface tested in simulation and on the bench, a read-only robot-to-BMS bridge, a condition-capture rig for plant rooms and car parks, and tools for technicians. Building works sit on our Construction page, patrol robots on Security & Risk, and property software on our Real Estate software page.

Not by changing the lift ourselves. Some lift makers offer a robot or remote-call interface; where yours does, we test the robot side against a simulator first, then work through the maker's gateway with written permission from you and the lift contractor. Any lift alteration needs the contractor and, in states such as Maharashtra, the lift authority's prior permission. Sharing occupied lifts is a separate, gated step.

No. A pilot shows what happened in one building, on the routes, hours, occupancy, robot model and software version tested. A night-time run says little about a busy lobby, and a tower with different lifts or Wi-Fi needs its own survey. We report interventions, lift and door failures and recovery time with the conditions, so you can judge which buildings are similar enough to try.

Fire and evacuation behaviour always overrides the robot. In our trials a robot must clear exits, never hold a fire door and stay out of lifts in fire or service mode. We test it with a simulated signal first. We do not change door-release, turnstile or fire-alarm interfaces; they belong to your fire engineer and to the conditions of your building's fire approval.

Yes, read-only at first. A gateway reads robot status from the vendor's documented interface and publishes agreed points, such as fault, battery, zone and job complete, to a test BMS or simulator before your live system. Nothing writes back into the BMS, access control or the robot. Any write access needs your integrator, an operational-technology security review and your written approval.

You do. Floor maps, images and logs from your building stay yours, and where people can be identified they are personal data. Before any capture we agree what is collected and why, who can see it, where it is stored, its retention period and how deletion is done. Faces are blurred or avoided, and no data is reused, shared or fed into model training unless you agree in writing.

Yes, when the work is a bounded package like a BMS gateway, an interface prototype or a pilot evaluation. We propose engineers who are genuinely available, you interview them, and we agree supervision, site rules and deliverables. Engineers follow your permit-to-work and network policies. They hold no lift, fire or electrical licences for your building and do not replace your maintenance contractors.

Cost follows the buildings and floors, systems involved, interface documentation, test equipment and review effort. Surveys and pilot design can be fixed price; prototypes and engineers are scoped separately. After the pilot you receive records, results and limits with a recommendation to extend, change or stop. Fleet rollout, spares and round-the-clock support are separate agreements, and we offer no guaranteed savings.