One of the most tedious and time-consuming things in commercial construction is laying out the floorplan’s dimensions on the deck or slab. Now that job can be turned over to a robot that is happy doing that once tedious job.
Rugged Robotics, a Houston-based developer of construction technology, raised $9.4 million in Series A funding. Rugged offers a robot to automate construction layout. Rugged’s Mark I marks architectural and engineering designs directly onto concrete floors so workers know where to build. The robot is available for commercial use, which the company delivers via layout as a service.
“We’re building better,” Derrick Morse, founder and CEO at Rugged Robotics, said. “We set out to modernize the construction industry and to build practical solutions that solve the pain points contractors struggle with every day. We believe that layout is the ideal starting point. The layout is the beachhead for construction automation. It sits at the intersection of the digital and physical world, solves a huge problem, and unlocks the ability to deploy robotics onto job sites in a very meaningful way.”
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