With a look of growing its product line beyond its existing and design robot, Startup CIV Robotics, based on San Francisco, announced on July 1 that it has won $ 7.5 million in series A financing, in a round -led round with Bobcat Co. and FF Venture Capital, providing the company’s total funds raised up to $ 12.5 million.
The small outdoor design robot of CIV Robotics, called Civdot, allows the automated disposition of the survey points with a high degree of precision, reducing the number of workers needed to mark the places. The robot is able to mark the disposition points by means of paint on board with an accuracy of 8 mm, according to the company. Robust enough to work in inclement weather and in unequal ground conditions, a civdot can mark up to 3,000 points daily.
“We have more than 100 robots [out in the field] Right now, mainly used in the renewable energy sector, oil and gas, roads and airports, “says Tom Yeshurun, CEO and co-founder of CIV Robotics. Each robot uses a combination of an RTK receptor on board a nearby base station and IMU sensors on board precisely to the project.
Yeshurun adds that civdot robots are agnostic of the platform and can be used by teams and programs of existing popular polls in Topcon, Trimble and Leica. They also do not require a detailed BIM or other complex design files to start design operations. “When our customers use us, the robot does not mind what is marking. We are just providing a tool.”
Yeshurun notes that while Civdot generates a place built with a topographic overlap while performing their design activities, many clients are not interested in doing anything with this level of reality capture and they just want the design to be done. “Some love it absolutely [deliverable] And some don’t care at all. “
CIV Robotics design robots have been used in large wind and solar facilities, as well as oil and gas sector.Foto Courtesia CIV Robotics
One of CIV Robotics’s largest customers is the contractor Bechtel, who has several of the Civdot robots. “In solar projects on a useful scale in which we work, we can save time by maintaining a high standard is a Godsend,” said Kelley Brown, the leading Vice President of the United States of Bechtel, in a statement on the last round of funding in CIV Robotic. “By improving the time of the Six Survey, CIV Robotics has helped us to maintain our projects during time. We have trusted Civdot for four years so far and we will continue to implement the boats of all our organization.”
Yeshurun says that the new funding round will increase CIV robotics, as the company is expanding its product line. The company plans to announce a new product related to the autonomy of the workplace later this summer.
Although there are many companies that carry robotic autonomy at the disposal of the workplace and outdoor surveys, Yeshurun assures that there are still many activities in the place beyond the surface that could be improved with greater automation and more coherent performance.
Yeshurun says contractors often do not know who the team operator will be until work begins, which can limit them to the productivity of planning. “With the autonomy of [technology like] Oats, [they] He already knows the level of productivity, “he adds.
