A startup that uses robotics and automation to optimize the fabrication and assembly of rebar called Toggle has announced that it has raised $3 million in seed-funding.

Toggle will use the funding to expand its team, and continue the development of its robotics technology.

“Global urbanization is driving demand for ever larger and more complex urban highrise and civil infrastructure construction. At Toggle we believe that part of the solution to delivering these projects will be through leveraging robotics and automation to multiply the productivity of labor,” explains Toggle CEO, Daniel Blank.

“We are extremely grateful for the incredible support we’ve had from our investors in helping to realize our vision of bringing large scale urban and infrastructure construction to communities at the same level of quality, speed and value as manufactured consumer goods.”

To increase safety, productivity and precision in the rebar fabrication assembly process, Toggle’s newly developed hardware, software and services work in collaboration with industrial robots and other steel fabrication equipment. Toggle says that its technology allows it to deliver steel reinforcing products “at lower cost and faster speed” to customers in the construction industry.

Toggle seeks to not only double labor productivity, but also increase overall production five times over traditional assembly methods.

“At Toggle we’ve been fortunate to build a team that brings together deep experience and expertise from manufacturing, robotics and construction,” says Toggle COO, Ian Cohen.

“We are also already working with an exclusive early adopter group of customers across renewable energy, civil infrastructure and residential construction.”

Toggle’s offerings support the construction of shared public resources such as housing, energy and transportation; all of which make communities and cities “more sustainable,” the startup notes.