{"id":35120,"date":"2026-04-21T05:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T12:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/humanoid-robot-goes-to-work-on-tilbury-douglas-site\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T05:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T12:50:15","slug":"humanoid-robot-goes-to-work-on-tilbury-douglas-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/humanoid-robot-goes-to-work-on-tilbury-douglas-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanoid robot goes to work on Tilbury Douglas site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-507629\">\n\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The robot \u2013 named Douglas \u2013 has been introduced to support and assist site teams by undertaking administrative data-collection tasks.<\/p>\n<p>The robot is capable of autonomously navigating the construction site to capture 360-degree imagery and detailed progress reports to support health and safety monitoring and reporting processes.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative is expected to save an average of 40 hours per month.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Buckle, Technical Director at Tilbury Douglas, said: \u201cThe construction industry continues to face a skills shortage and ongoing resource challenges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy utilising innovative technology such as this robot, we can automate key processes, assist our teams and enable our people to focus their expertise where it adds the greatest value.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Introducing Douglas, our humanoid robot\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p-GUwMxfrZQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-info\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\">\n<div class=\"author-avatar\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/userphoto\/3.jpg\" alt=\"Grant Prior\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"photo\">\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .author-info -->\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/2026\/04\/21\/humanoid-robot-goes-to-work-on-tilbury-douglas-site\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The robot \u2013 named Douglas \u2013 has been introduced to support and assist site teams by undertaking administrative data-collection &#8230; <a title=\"Humanoid robot goes to work on Tilbury Douglas site\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/humanoid-robot-goes-to-work-on-tilbury-douglas-site\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Humanoid robot goes to work on Tilbury Douglas site\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1089],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction-enquirer","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}