AI-Enabled Multi-Robot Beam Lifting – Prototype Demonstration

ENKI AI is developing a prototype of a collaborative multi-robot system capable of jointly lifting and stabilising a beam using embedded AI control.

Two robotic units coordinate their motion in real time, continuously exchanging state information and adapting their behaviour to maintain alignment, height synchronisation and load stability. The system is designed to operate under variable timing and communication conditions, reflecting real construction-site constraints.

The prototype demonstrates:

• AI-driven cooperative beam lifting by two robots,
• Real-time exchange of robot operational state to maintain synchronisation,
• Adaptive convergence to target lift height,
• Stable beam handling during coordinated motion.

This work forms the basis of a broader network-aware execution architecture, where robotic coordination and communication are treated as jointly optimised variables rather than independent subsystems.

This effort is strengthened through collaboration with Fraunhofer IPK, Accelleran and Moduleo, combining robotics expertise, programmable network technologies and real construction use-case validation.

The objective is clear: enable reliable, scalable multi-robot collaboration for construction and other dynamic industrial environments.