Dusty Robotics
Autonomous robot that prints full-scale BIM floor plans directly onto the construction site.
About
Dusty Robotics builds the FieldPrinter, an autonomous mobile robot that transfers digital building plans directly onto construction floors. It reads BIM files and prints walls, doors, and MEP locations as full-scale ink-on-floor instructions, including text, images, and QR codes, so every trade works from the same layout. The company claims accuracy to one-sixteenth of an inch and layout speeds up to ten times faster than traditional two-person crews, while an independent 2025 study found a FieldPrinter with one operator was five times faster at layout than a typical crew. Skanska reports using the multi-trade layout system cuts its rework by 75 percent and its layout schedule by 35 percent, customer-reported figures rather than independently audited results.
Founded in Mountain View in 2018 by serial entrepreneurs, the company has raised $69.3 million total, including a $45 million Series B in May 2022 led by Scale Venture Partners, at a roughly $250 million valuation. Its robots have laid out over 25 million square feet for customers including Turner Construction, Skanska, DPR, and Swinerton, with data centers, healthcare, and industrial projects as the core market. The Gen 2 FieldPrint Platform bundles the robot with a custom total station, tablet controller, Revit and AutoCAD integration through a cloud portal, and ongoing firmware updates, delivered as a subscription for high-utilization contractors or daily rental in select markets.
What it can do
- Autonomous printing of full-scale floor plans on site at 1/16-inch accuracy
- BIM-driven layout of walls, doors, and MEP locations with text, images, and QR codes
- Multi-trade layout instructions in a single pass
- Revit and AutoCAD integration via cloud portal
- Subscription (RaaS) or daily rental delivery models
- Third-generation hardware with side-extending printer for near-obstacle printing
Setup
Contact Dusty Robotics for a project quote; the robot is deployed with an operator and your BIM models are loaded through the cloud portal.
Prerequisites
A coordinated BIM model; access to the construction deck for the robot to traverse.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 8/10
Scored 8/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: founded 2018, $69.3M raised ($45M Series B May 2022, Scale Venture Partners), ~$250M valuation; 25M+ sq ft laid out; customers include Turner, Skanska, DPR, and Swinerton; independent study found 5x layout speed vs a two-person crew. Strengths: hardware-software wedge with proven field deployment, multi-trade layout, subscription and rental delivery. Docked for: (1) rework-reduction figures are customer-reported; (2) hardware-dependent, not pure software; (3) service markets concentrated in North America. License: proprietary.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 7.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 8.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 2.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 8.0/10
- · Founded 2018 in Mountain View; $69.3M raised ($45M Series B May 2022, Scale Venture Partners), ~$250M valuation.
- · FieldPrinter prints BIM layouts at 1/16-inch accuracy; 25M+ sq ft laid out; customers include Turner, Skanska, DPR, Swinerton.
- · Independent 2025 study: 5x layout speed vs a typical two-person crew; Gen 2 platform with Revit/AutoCAD cloud integration.
- · Rework-reduction figures are customer-reported; hardware-dependent; service markets concentrated in North America.
Sources
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