Field testing
Field testing on real construction work
Nothing has been field-tested yet. What we have is a place to do it: an affiliated Washington contractor with real construction work every week, and a plan for testing that puts people's safety first.
Why real job sites matter
A robot that works in a lab can fail on a job site: uneven floors, dust, mud, rain, ladders, moving crews, and a layout that changes every day. So far, humanoid robots in construction are "research demonstrations or narrowly defined tasks", as an October 2026 review put it (AEC Business). We want to learn what it takes to close that gap, one task at a time, on real work.
Our affiliated contractor
Washington Construction (Construction Washington LLC) is a Washington general contractor based in Mount Vernon and, like Humanoid Works, part of Netuck Holdings. It is registered with the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries as a general contractor (WASHIC*795O4) and holds a residential electrical contractor license (WASHIC*743DE). It does home renovation, new homes, roofing, decks, flooring, painting, residential electrical work and more in Skagit, Snohomish, Island and Whatcom Counties.
We name no clients, show no client homes, and publish nothing from a job site without written consent.
How field testing will work
Task cards
We watch real work and write each target task down the way a crew lead would teach it: the steps, tools, tolerances, hazards, and what "done" looks like. No audio is recorded, and no person or home is filmed without written consent.
Yard tests
A new task is tried first in a fenced area the contractor controls, on an isolated network, with a named person holding the emergency stop and a written risk assessment in place.
Supervised pilots
A task moves to a real job only with a risk assessment for that site, insurance confirmed in writing, and the agreement of the site owner and the crew, and only with a robot that has passed our own security review (research robots stay in the yard). Never near homeowners or the public.
Honest reports
What worked, what failed and what changed, with every video labeled teleoperated, scripted or autonomous.
What stays with people
Some construction work is limited by law to people who hold a state credential. In Washington, electrical work needs a certificate of competency (RCW 19.28.161), and a robot can't hold one. Licensed work stays with qualified people. If robots reach job sites, the first tasks would be carrying, staging, cleanup and other work that needs no license.
Contractors: be a future test site
If you run construction work in the Pacific Northwest and would consider hosting a supervised trial one day, check the box on the waitlist form. It commits you to nothing.