Origin raises $20 million to scale OG-1 construction robots

Origin was founded in early 2025 by Yogesh Ghaturle, Ashish Daga and Tushar Makkar, and it deployed its first robots on New York job sites within 10 months. The company spent 18 months building before coming out of stealth to prove its robots could work on real sites, according to Ghaturle. OG-1 is powered by Origin's Construction Action Model, a foundation model that combines a reasoning system, an action policy and a controller, and it is trained using high-fidelity simulation and deployment data from live job sites.

The funding comes as investment in construction robotics accelerates. Zacua's Construction Robotics Report 2026, published with Hilti Ventures and 94 Ventures, found the sector attracted $1.36 billion in venture funding in the first three quarters of 2025, up 125 percent from the $612 million raised in all of 2024, while robots still account for less than 0.03 percent of global construction spend. That gap suggests plenty of room for growth, though how quickly contractors adopt robots like OG-1 remains to be seen.

Origin plans to extend its platform to additional interior trades such as taping, drywall installation, drilling and conduit installation using the same hardware and model. Zacua will support that expansion through its network of contractors, developers and manufacturers, and Vivin Hegde has joined Origin's board as a director.