Japanese startup GITAI has demonstrated an autonomous «construction crew» of robots that assembled a five-meter tower — an infrastructure module for future settlements on other planets — without human intervention. The team sees the experiment as a step toward deploying bases before astronauts arrive.
Japanese startup GITAI has demonstrated an autonomous «construction crew» of robots that assembled a five-meter tower — an infrastructure module for future settlements on other planets — without human intervention. The team sees the experiment as a step toward deploying bases before astronauts arrive.
A new video from GITAI in X shows several robot manipulators and a rover, similar to a Mars rover, independently assemble the sections of the structure, install the antenna on top, and connect the power cables. All operations are performed autonomously: the system itself plans the sequence of actions, positions the robots, and ensures that the tower elements are combined with the required precision.
Meet the construction crew for the Moon and Mars 🏗️🌕 #GITAI robots cooperatively assemble a 5-meter tower, a building block for future off-world habitats.
— GITAI (@GITAI_HQ) December 6, 2025
Join us to scale this from demo to orbit.
Open positions ➡ https://t.co/T9VTkXtU7w pic.twitter.com/Pp3BxmrQY8
According to the developers, such robots should serve as a universal technical team for space agencies. In addition to assembling towers, GITAI complexes are capable of welding panels, servicing and repairing mobile equipment, including changing tires on rovers, and working with regolith, preparing sites for future housing modules or power plants.
The startup has already attracted the attention of the defense agency DARPA: GITAI was selected for the LunA-10 program, which focuses on creating lunar infrastructure. There, the company promotes the idea of "robots as a service,» when a customer can attract a ready-made fleet of machines for the construction or maintenance of facilities on the Moon, without deploying its own production and engineering team.
Although the current tests are taking place on Earth, the scenarios are as close as possible to the conditions of another planet: uneven terrain, limited access to people and the requirement for continuous autonomous operation. GITAI emphasizes that without such an approach, the colonization of the Moon and Mars will remain at the level of concepts, because sending people to build everything «from scratch» in a hostile environment is too risky and expensive.
If the company manages to scale up its current demonstrations to real missions, the first supporting structures for lunar and Martian bases could appear long before humans set foot on them — and they would be built by the same robotic «builders» as in the GITAI videos.
Previously, dev.ua wrote about how a former head of product safety filed a lawsuit against Figure AI, a company that develops humanoid robots. According to him, he was illegally fired after warning management that the company’s robots were «powerful enough to crack a human skull.»
