{"id":51171,"date":"2025-01-13T01:15:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T01:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startups.co.uk\/startups-100\/?p=51171"},"modified":"2025-01-10T09:43:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T09:43:59","slug":"automated-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/startups.co.uk\/startups-100\/2025\/automated-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"75. Automated Architecture: using smart robots to build 100,000 homes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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See our guide to this year’s hottest new businesses and most exceptional founders in the complete 2025 Startups 100 index<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n[vc_column_text]Founder<\/b>: Mollie Claypool and Gilles Retsin
\nYear founded<\/b>: 2019
\nWebsite<\/b>: auar.io<\/a>\n

Construction is one of the largest sectors in the world’s economy – McKinsey says around $10 trillion is spent on construction-related goods and services every year.<\/p>\n

It’s a tricky industry to make sustainable, but cofounders Mollie Claypool and Gilles Retsin are on a mission to do so with their startup Automated Architecture (AUAR).<\/p>\n

AUAR is building an automated construction ecosystem. It has partnered with home builders and contractors in Europe and North America to build the first distributed micro-factory network for timber housing.[\/vc_column_text] <\/p>

\n \n \n <\/path>\n <\/g>\n <\/svg>\n 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, <\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n[vc_column_text]The company licences its low CapEx robotic micro-factories and tech stack to a network of existing home builders. That creates a massive revenue opportunity for these companies in delivering low-energy homes at the price of normal homes and at scale, which the Startups judges were particularly impressed with.\n

“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,” says Claypool.<\/p>\n

AUAR’s underlying data model makes all costs and other data known upfront to their clients and manufacturing partners. The startup is the only construction<\/a> technology company developing an automated, systemic, design-led and global housing construction ecosystem.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Last year held plenty of milestones for AUAR. In February, its first micro-factory for robotic timber assembly was in full production in Belgium (it hit profitability in this micro-factory after just six weeks of production). In March, the startup raised a £2.6M seed round<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Claypool is targeting 40 partners for its micro-factories by 2030, with a capacity to produce more than 100,000 energy-efficient homes and remove millions of tons of CO2 each year. We’ve no doubt that AUAR will build on its already strong foundations in 2025.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]<\/p>

\n \n The 2025 Startups 100 List in Full <\/span>\n\n \n
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\n \n 2<\/span>\n Robin AI <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 3<\/span>\n Yonder <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 4<\/span>\n HIVED <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 5<\/span>\n Gaia <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 6<\/span>\n Runna <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 7<\/span>\n Quantum Dice <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 8<\/span>\n Hoxton Farms <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 9<\/span>\n MAGIC AI <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 10<\/span>\n Eolas Medical <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 11<\/span>\n DRIFT Energy <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
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\n \n 13<\/span>\n Lindus Health <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 14<\/span>\n FYLD <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 15<\/span>\n Zero Gravity <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 16<\/span>\n Vikela <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 17<\/span>\n ToffeeX <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 18<\/span>\n Bio&Me <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 19<\/span>\n Strolll <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 20<\/span>\n Triple Technologies <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 21<\/span>\n UNDO Carbon <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 22<\/span>\n KOMI <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 23<\/span>\n Untap <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 24<\/span>\n Novai <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 25<\/span>\n Omni Pet <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 26<\/span>\n Sona <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 27<\/span>\n Fin Sustainable Logistics <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 28<\/span>\n trumpet <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 29<\/span>\n Swiipr Technologies <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 30<\/span>\n Cerbos <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 31<\/span>\n By Rotation <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 32<\/span>\n Open Climate Fix <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 33<\/span>\n Howbout <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 34<\/span>\n cheqd <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 35<\/span>\n Seep <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 36<\/span>\n Oort Energy <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 37<\/span>\n Walking on Earth <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 38<\/span>\n Flexa <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 39<\/span>\n HutanBio <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 40<\/span>\n Primer <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 41<\/span>\n Black Seed Ventures <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 42<\/span>\n Sharesy <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 43<\/span>\n Made With Intent <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 44<\/span>\n Userled <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 45<\/span>\n Zeti <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 46<\/span>\n Luna Daily <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 47<\/span>\n Deploy Tech <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 48<\/span>\n PulpaTronics <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 49<\/span>\n Metris Energy <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 50<\/span>\n VoltShare <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 51<\/span>\n NOQ Group <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 52<\/span>\n Hormona <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 53<\/span>\n Unify AI <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 54<\/span>\n The Seam <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 55<\/span>\n Siloton <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 56<\/span>\n SURREAL <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 57<\/span>\n Valarian Technologies <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 58<\/span>\n Papaya Technologies <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
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\n \n 74<\/span>\n Outverse <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 75<\/span>\n Automated Architecture <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 76<\/span>\n Freja <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 77<\/span>\n Purple Transform <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 78<\/span>\n Lumi <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 79<\/span>\n Storekit <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 80<\/span>\n Unfabled <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 81<\/span>\n Asan Wellness <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 82<\/span>\n Mach42 <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 83<\/span>\n seedata.io <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 84<\/span>\n Peachies <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 85<\/span>\n Nugget Savings <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 86<\/span>\n Enbiosis Biotechnology <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 87<\/span>\n Swoperz <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
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\n \n 90<\/span>\n Tunic Pay <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
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\n \n 94<\/span>\n XR Therapeutics <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
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\n \n 96<\/span>\n UJJI AI <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 97<\/span>\n Volunteero <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n \n 98<\/span>\n SuperFi <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
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