**Earlier this month, dusty robotics, a bay area based construction robot start-up, announced that it had received a round B financing of $45 million led by scale venture partners** After the round a financing of US $16.5 million in June last year, its total capital reached about US $69 million and its valuation was about US $250 million. In addition, during the covid pandemic, the industry's interest in construction robots also increased.
(from: dusty official website)
In recent years, people have raised more and more interest in the application of robots in the construction industry. After all, even if the economic growth slows down, the relevant demand can not be ignored.
FieldPrinter - How it Works（via）
Previously, we have introduced the company's fieldprinter robot, which has a shape style similar to the Roomba sweeping robot. It is designed to replace the construction workers' manual drawing of chalk lines to help plan the site construction layout.
By printing the digital plan directly to the ground of the construction site, the construction unit can get a more accurate layout. In addition, dusty said that compared with the manual transcription scheme, the robot can avoid a lot of time waste and high cost of error recovery.
Tessa Lau, founder and CEO of the company, pointed out in a press release that the degree of automation in the construction industry is so low that up to 85% of projects will exceed the budget when completed, which constitutes a related crisis risk.
The good news is that dusty's robot based solution can better transform the traditional manual process of the construction industry to automation. While improving productivity, it also creates better working conditions for skilled craftsmen.
Dusty is the next generation of construction layout（via）
At present, dusty's system has been rapidly adopted in the U.S. market. In the first quarter alone, the robot has implemented a plan of 25 million square feet through construction companies such as DPR, swinerton, paric, performance contracting Inc. and Southland industries.
Finally, with the release of fieldprinter version 1.0, the company also added support for the functions of QR code printing, automatic obstacle avoidance and real-time work progress update for the robot.