E-ROBOT Prize Winners Announced!

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Energy dot gov Office of Energy Efficiency and renewable energy

BUILDING TECHNOLOGIES OFFICE 

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April 7, 2022

Prize-Winning Innovations Advance Building Envelope Retrofits with Faster, Easier, and Safer Solutions

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) announced three winners of its American-Made E-ROBOT Prize, a competition that challenged teams of entrepreneurs to design and build robotic-driven approaches to retrofit buildings more safely and quickly with higher energy-performing walls and other building envelope solutions.

Each winner will receive equal shares of the $2 million prize amount in cash prizes for their robotic solutions, which promise to accelerate the pace of building retrofits across the country.  

“We’re in an all-out sprint to beat the climate crisis, and that race runs straight through our nation’s buildings,” said EERE’s Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Kelly Speakes-Backman. “Advanced building construction and renovation methods, like the ones our E-ROBOT winners have unveiled today, are the kinds of transformative innovations we need to accelerate the decarbonization of America’s 130 million buildings and meet President Biden’s goals of a net zero carbon economy by 2050.” 

Find a full list of E-ROBOT Prize winners here.