Promise Robotics expanding with new Calgary factory

Key Takeaways:

• Promise Robotics is launching a 60,000-square-foot factory in Calgary to produce up to 1,000,000 square feet of housing annually, using AI and robotic automation to address housing shortages in Canada and the U.S.
• The company’s “Homebuilding Factory-as-a-Service (FaaS)” platform allows homebuilders to scale production with fewer resources, eliminating complex processes and reducing labor shortages by leveraging local materials, supply chains, and labor.
• With future expansion plans targeting major U.S. cities, Promise Robotics aims to make factory-based home construction more accessible by removing financial and technical barriers, helping builders adopt automation at scale.

The Whole Story:

Promise Robotics,  The AI company turning off-the-shelf industrial robots into autonomous production systems for home construction, announced its plans to expand deployment of its production lines at a new 60,000-square-foot existing warehouse located in Calgary.

The facility will be able to produce up to 1,000,000 square feet of housing annually. Promise stated that the expansion represents the latest advancements in automation and robotics in the homebuilding industry, harnessing Promise Robotics’ AI brain and robotic tooling to address housing shortages in Canada and the United States.

With a future eye on cities like Houston, Dallas, Phoenix, Atlanta, Charlotte, Austin, and Nashville, the launch represents another step in the company’s plans to expand its homebuilding partnerships with home builders and suppliers across the U.S. and Canada. 

Promise Robotics says it is enabling the homebuilding industry with its “Homebuilding Factory-as-a-Service (FaaS)” platform to boost production capacity and deliver homes faster with significantly fewer resources. 

The new state-of-the-art robotics factory in Calgary builds on the success of Promise Robotics’ Factory-as-a-Service facility in Edmonton with a unique approach to offsite construction. They argued that the factory solution eliminates complex processes for home builders. Promise Robotics stressed that its factories are built in the regions they are used – using local materials,  supply chains, and labor- to ensure communities are supported at the point of construction, with the added benefit of reducing skilled labor shortages.

“This new factory marks a major technological and business milestone, strengthening our ability to support our expanding network of homebuilding partners across Canada and the U.S.,” said Ramtin Attar, CEO and co-founder of Promise Robotics. “The high cost and complexity of automation have long kept homebuilders from investing in factories, but Promise Robotics changes that. Our solution removes capital and expertise barriers, enabling builders to adopt automation and scale production confidently.” 

The new facility in Calgary will officially start production in Summer 2025.