Construction robots, carry out lifting in record time.

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Construction robots, carry out lifting in record time.



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There will be something left for the surveyor to do


In the world of construction, every incorrectly measured meter can be expensive, and if an autonomous robot could mark the terrain with millimeter precision in any climate, eight times faster than a human team, then that is exactly what the CivDot from Civ Robotics promises and is already delivering on large-scale works.


Straight from San Francisco, CivDot is a rugged 4WD rover, built to tackle uneven terrain, holes, rocks, even mud without losing its way. Using state-of-the-art GNSS technology, the same as surveyors use, it marks up to 3,000 points per day, maintaining an accuracy of up to 8mm.


For those who believe that this is just a detail, in solar parks, for example, a single panel out of alignment can compromise the entire energy matrix and CivDot is there to prevent that from happening. No specialized human operator or advanced surveying course. The CivDot has a mission planner that works like a Tablet app, you literally draw the points and the little robot goes out to mark the terrain.




And there is the icing on the cake.


CivDot Plus, an even more powerful version, combines Dual RTK, correction IMU, tilt IMU and a robotic arm and scores 1200 points per day. Civ Robotic is not just talking nice, its technology is already helping to build more than 20 Gygawatts of solar parks marking more than 10 million coordinates around the world. Every minute earned here becomes money saved in the construction schedule and less rework later.


Civ Robotic is integrating the Yade into Nvidia to make all planning even faster, with CivDot analyzing the terrain in real time, avoiding obstacles and adapting the design in the moment without stopping work. It seems that everything is really being planned and there are fewer human jobs every day. Let's see how this all ends.



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