By Matthew Strader
Created with a vision of transforming remote concrete work, SkyMul has focused on developing an advanced operating system for the industry.
The Atlanta, Georgia-based company is building the infrastructure for tele-construction: letting concrete teams to work remotely with confidence, using a “living digital twin” of the jobsite as the source of information.
“The company’s approach is not just about deploying technology, but about building an integrated solution that addresses real operational constraints and drives project efficiency,” explained Eohan George, founder and CEO of SkyMul.
In practice today, that means, high-accuracy site capture using daily or periodic drone-based scanning. The scan is aligned to drawings/control, which are used to verify layout-critical items before concrete locks them in.
SkyMul also provides a shared operations view for the field, office and stakeholders, including rewind-by-day visuals, overlays, measurements, verification reports and decision support.
Based in Atlanta, the company’s strategic location leverages the region’s pool of construction projects, logistics and engineering talent, while benefiting from its proximity to active concrete and tilt-up markets, as well as major airports.
These factors, combined with the city’s diverse operational environment — including complex airspace, variable weather and a wide range of jobsite scenarios — make Atlanta an ideal testbed for real-world operational challenges, particularly for drone-in-a-box and remote operations.
According to George, construction still loses huge time and money to travel, fragmented handoffs and late discovery of errors.
“If you can capture reality fast, align it to design and make it easy for the right people to act on it the same day, you prevent rework and scale oversight without scaling headcount or travel to sites. This system acts as a comprehensive control panel that empowers teams to plan, verify, coordinate and execute tasks with increasing levels of automation,” George said.
Recent milestones highlight SkyMul’s momentum on jobsites. The company has transitioned from pilot projects to paid deployments, signalling strong market validation for its solutions.
Expanded drone-in-a-box operations, including regulatory approvals to operate in constrained airspace, further underscore SkyMul’s technical advancement.
The company is also moving beyond simple “capture and report” workflows, scaling up to a true closed-loop process: capturing data, aligning it with design intent, flagging issues, enabling same-day decision-making and verifying resolution on-site.
Looking forward, SkyMul is building toward a vertically integrated ecosystem that combines a digital twin, site hardware and robotic task execution. This holistic approach aims to create a seamless workflow for the construction industry, moving away from single-point tools and towards comprehensive, automated solutions.
“We’re in paid deployment meaning we’re moving past pilots,” George said. “We’ve expanded drone-in-a-box operations, including approvals to operate in constrained airspace. We’re scaling from “capture and report” to a true closed-loop workflow from capture to align to design to flagging issues, driving same day decisions and verifying a resolution.”
Skymul originally entered the construction world as a robotics startup company. In 2024, the company held demonstrations of its SkyTy rebar tying robot at World of Concrete.
SkyTy outperformed its human counterpart for rebar tying. On average, a human requires 20 seconds to tie one rebar section. SkyTy can complete the task in 14 seconds. In 2023, the robot was deployed to its first real world jobsite to test its abilities at marking layout for rebar and post tensioning cables.
As SkyMul continues to innovate, it is well-positioned to set new standards for efficiency, safety and productivity in remote concrete work across Canada and beyond.
