Gritt

Gritt is a physical AI company building an intelligent system that combines robotics and AI to accelerate infrastructure construction on real jobsites. Founded in 2023 by Carnegie Mellon-trained roboticists Puneet Puri and Vishal Dugar, Gritt deploys via off-the-shelf attachments on common construction equipment, skid steers, forklifts, and robotic arms, to automate pick-and-place, transport, assembly, verification, and planning tasks in harsh outdoor environments where conventional automation has struggled.

With trillions of dollars in global infrastructure spending planned and 41% of the U.S. construction workforce projected to retire by 2031, Gritt addresses a widening labor gap that humans alone cannot fill. The company is already working with top-ten U.S. EPC contractors on large-scale solar construction, capturing terabytes of spatial and operational data daily to deliver 4X efficiency gains with no added labor, and expanding toward data centers and broader infrastructure projects.