Construction Layout Robots
Layout robots mark walls, sleeves and openings straight from the model onto the slab, replacing chalk lines and tape.
16 robots · 22 companies · from the Future of Built file
By trade
- Layout · 11
- Survey · 2
- Drilling · 1
- Facade · 1
- Striping · 1
Robots
Dusty Robotics
10Lines
Mechasys
LightYX
BrightMaster Robotics
Tyker
Corosols
Mirai Kikai
PlikaCompanies
- Dusty Robotics · Mountain View, United States · founded 2018
Prints full-scale BIM layouts onto slabs so every trade works from the same floor drawing - no chalk lines, no tape.
- HP SitePrint · Palo Alto, United States · founded 2022
HP’s imaging precision applied to slab layout. Prints MEP and architectural markings directly onto concrete.
- Raise Robotics · San Francisco, United States · founded 2018
Multipurpose platform for high-risk install work - curtainwall brackets, overhead drilling, facade layout on high-rises.
- Civ Robotics · San Francisco, United States · founded 2018
CivDash autonomously stripes roads and civil sites - up to 16 miles of linework in a day, operators out of traffic.
- Mechasys · Montreal, Canada · founded 2018
Robotic layout and installation for MEP - hangers, sleeves, and overhead components placed from coordinated BIM.
- CSC Robotics · Hong Kong, Hong Kong · founded 2019
Autonomous ceiling and wall drilling from BIM. Hangers and sleeves on Asian high-rises without a week of layout.
- Rugged Robotics · Houston, United States · founded 2018
Layout as a service. A yellow-wheeled printer that puts the drawing on the slab so industrial and commercial jobs stop snapping chalk.
- 10Lines · Tallinn, Estonia · founded 2019
Autonomous parking-lot and pavement striping robots around a Graco pump. Tell it the layout. It paints the lines.
- LightYX · Tel Aviv, Israel · founded 2018
BeamerOne projects the drawing onto floors, walls, and ceilings. Drywall and MEP layout without a printer or a chalk line.
- Trimble · Westminster, United States · founded 1978
Earthworks machine control, layout, and the total station that still runs the civil site. The stack most GCs already own.
- Topcon · Tokyo, Japan · founded 1932
3D machine control and layout. Dozers and excavators that already know the surface.
- Leica Geosystems · Heerbrugg, Switzerland · founded 1819
Hexagon’s survey and reality-capture stack. The control network every layout robot still ties to.
- CHC Navigation · Shanghai, China · founded 2003
Huace GNSS, LiDAR, and the X500 survey UAV. Layout and mapping hardware from Qingpu that already flies construction corridors in 140 countries.
- BrightMaster Robotics · Shenzhen, China · founded 2018
bm-robot.com. Shenzhen BrightMaster. Leveling, coating, measuring, and a hoist - 5,000-plus machines on Chinese and overseas decks, not a prototype stand.
- August Robotics · Las Vegas, United States · founded 2018
Lionel marks CAD and BIM layouts on the slab so the chalk line is not the bottleneck. Las Vegas with yards in HK Science Park, Düsseldorf, Melbourne, and Shenzhen. Layout robot, not a survey toy.
- Tyker · Barneveld, Netherlands · founded 2015
Robot Plotter and striping siblings mark civil layout and road premark from GNSS. Barneveld. Dutch OEM with rental and support live in 2026.
- Corosols · Ben Guerir, Morocco · founded 2022
Total-station-guided BIM floor-layout tracing robot on a RaaS model. Ben Guerir / UM6P. Casablanca award 2026, JESA pilot, BBC Arabic coverage.
- Mirai Kikai · Takamatsu, Japan · founded 2004
HOKUSAI marks floor layouts autonomously - rented as SUMIDAS via Nikken, Takenaka co-dev lineage. Kagawa. Sumi-dashi without the chalk walk.
- Hitachi Channel Solutions · Tokyo, Japan · founded 2004
SumiROBO marks CAD/DXF layouts on the floor with Topcon LN-100/150. Tokyo. NETIS listed - Chiyoda Sokki and Nishio Rent All channels. Not Hitachi Construction Machinery.
- Daoshan Intelligent Robot · Foshan, China · founded 2019
Xiao Mo M10 marks indoor floors from BIM/CAD to about +/-1 mm. Foshan. CATL layout case claims on the product page.
- Plika · Gwacheon, South Korea · founded 2022
CAD/DXF floor-layout printer with laser tracking for grid and line marking on the slab. Gwacheon. RoboWorld 2024 debut - centimeter accuracy, compact frame.
- Trinabot · Changzhou, China · founded 2018
Buildex tracked PV install robots with onboard forklift and place arm - up to ~60 modules/hour on fixed-tilt and tracker layouts. Changzhou, Trina Solar lab pedigree. MEA/EU/AU expansion.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a construction layout robot?
- A mobile robot that reads the coordinated BIM or CAD drawing and prints or marks the layout directly on the floor.
- Which companies are on the construction layout robots list?
- Future of Built lists 22 companies here, including Dusty Robotics, HP SitePrint, Raise Robotics, Civ Robotics, Mechasys, CSC Robotics, Rugged Robotics and 10Lines.
- Where are these companies headquartered?
- By headquarters: United States (7), China (4), Japan (3), Canada (1), Estonia (1).
- How many of these robots are deployed?
- Of the 16 robots on this page, 13 deployed, 3 pilot, per the Future of Built file.