{"slug": "one-brick-at-a-time-how-monumental-uses-robotics-to-build-walls", "title": "One brick at a time: How Monumental uses robotics to build walls", "summary": "Monumental founder and CEO Salar al Khafaji appeared on Episode 261 of The Robot Report Podcast to discuss \"Walls as a Service\" and the construction opportunity for robotics and automation. Al Khafaji, who previously co-founded the data visualization platform Silk that Palantir Technologies acquired in 2016, said Monumental aims to make construction software-defined and hardware-enabled. The episode's news segment also covered Agility Robotics reporting $1.8 million in revenue ahead of a humanoid SPAC, a Figure and Nscale partnership for up to 100,000 GPUs on the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform, and Boston Dynamics veterans launching Dynamic Creatures.", "body_md": "In Episode 261 of *The Robot Report* Podcast, we learn about “Walls as a Service” and the emerging construction opportunity for robotics and automation.\n\nOur guest is [Salar al Khafaji](https://www.linkedin.com/in/salark/), founder and CEO of Monumental. A recognized leader at the intersection of AI, robotics, and the built environment, he is focused on bringing scalable automation to [construction](https://www.therobotreport.com/tag/construction), one of the world’s largest and least digitized industries, by making it software-defined and hardware-enabled.\n\nPreviously, al Kafaji co-founded the data visualization platform Silk, which Palantir Technologies acquired in 2016.\n\nBe sure to catch our [prior coverage this week](https://www.therobotreport.com/what-bricklaying-has-taught-monumental-about-robots-construction/) of Monumental.\n\n## Show timeline\n\n- 7:05 – News of the week\n- 28:20- Salar al Khafaji, founder and CEO of [Monumental](https://www.monumental.co)\n\n## News of the week\n\n- [Agility Robotics reports $1.8M revenue ahead of humanoid SPAC](https://www.therobotreport.com/agility-robotics-reports-18m-revenue-ahead-of-humanoid-spac/)\n- [Figure and Nscale sign strategic partnership for up to 100,000 GPUs on the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform](https://www.figure.ai/news/figure-and-nscale-sign-strategic-partnership)\n- [Boston Dynamics veteran launches Dynamic Creatures to bring characters to life with robotics](https://www.therobotreport.com/boston-dynamics-veterans-launch-dynamic-creatures-to-bring-characters-to-life-with-robotics/)\n\n## Sponsors\n\n*Thanks to our sponsors who make this content possible.*\n\nTo learn how you can sponsor a future episode of *The Robot Report* Podcast, contact Jami Brownlee at [\\[email protected\\]](/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#5e343c2c312930323b3b1e3f2c2c3129383227703d3133)\n\nWould you like to be a guest on a future episode? Contact Mike Oitzman at [\\[email protected\\]](/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#cea3a1a7bab4a3afa08eafbcbca1b9a8a2b7e0ada1a3)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/one-brick-at-a-time-how-monumental-uses-robotics-to-build-walls", "canonical_source": "https://www.therobotreport.com/one-brick-at-a-time-how-monumental-uses-robotics-to-build-walls/", "published_at": "2026-09-11 21:09:01+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-11 21:21:53.218970+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["robotics", "ai-startups"], "entities": ["Monumental", "Salar al Khafaji", "The Robot Report Podcast", "Silk", "Palantir Technologies", "Agility Robotics", "Figure", "Nscale"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/one-brick-at-a-time-how-monumental-uses-robotics-to-build-walls", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/one-brick-at-a-time-how-monumental-uses-robotics-to-build-walls.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/one-brick-at-a-time-how-monumental-uses-robotics-to-build-walls.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/one-brick-at-a-time-how-monumental-uses-robotics-to-build-walls.jsonld"}}