With an eye on growing its product line beyond its existing outdoor surveying and layout robot, San Francisco-based startup Civ Robotics announced July 1 that it has secured $7.5 million in Series A ...

Civ Robotics now brings bot benefits to the planning stage of the construction process with autonomous, roving, battery-powered surveyors. While they're not quite ready to replace their human worker ...

A new type of robot can help complete construction work faster than normal process. A San Francisco-based company’s flagship robot carries out construction surveying up to eight times faster than ...

CivDot is a four-wheeled robot that can mark up to 3,000 layout points per day and is accurate within 8 millimeters. Bechtel Corporation is using the robots on rugged terrain in Texas and Nevada. The ...

Private renewable energy projects are still moving forward despite a pullback in government support, and new technology is making that construction more efficient. Solar farms, for example, take ...