Layout Robots vs Manual Layout
How robotic layout printers compare with traditional chalk-line and total-station layout.
11 robots · 13 companies · from the Future of Built file
Robots
Dusty Robotics
LightYX
Tyker
Corosols
Mirai Kikai
Daoshan Intelligent Robot
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Leica Geosystems · Heerbrugg, Switzerland · founded 1819
Hexagon’s survey and reality-capture stack. The control network every layout robot still ties to.
- 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.
Frequently asked questions
- Is robotic layout faster than manual layout?
- Vendors report faster layout; compare each robot's published specs on this page.
- Which companies are on the layout robots vs manual layout list?
- Future of Built lists 13 companies here, including Dusty Robotics, HP SitePrint, Rugged Robotics, LightYX, Trimble, Leica Geosystems, August Robotics and Tyker.
- Where are these companies headquartered?
- By headquarters: United States (5), Japan (2), China (1), Israel (1), Morocco (1).
- How many of these robots are deployed?
- Of the 11 robots on this page, 9 deployed, 2 pilot, per the Future of Built file.