Opportunity RadarCiv Robotics
Autonomous ground robots that mark construction layout points via GNSS/RTK
Unmanned ground robots (CivDot, CivDot+, CivDot Mini) that autonomously navigate to GNSS/RTK-surveyed coordinates and mark them with paint, a stake, or a laser for construction layout on solar farms, earthworks, and infrastructure sites. CivNav, launched December 2025, adds AI-assisted navigation that guides skid steer and telehandler operators to place solar piles and modules from a site blueprint.
Why This Tool Exists
Manual construction layout and staking is slow and labor-intensive: traditional survey crews mark roughly 200-450 points per day by hand, becoming a bottleneck on large solar farms and earthworks projects that require staking tens of thousands of coordinates across hundreds of acres.
CivDot/CivDot+/CivDot Mini are unmanned ground robots that use dual RTK GNSS positioning and an IMU for tilt correction to autonomously drive to coordinates loaded from a CSV or DXF file, marking each point with paint, a stake, or a laser at up to 1/10'-3/100' accuracy and up to 3,000 points/day with a single operator instead of a multi-person survey crew. CivNav mounts a sensor unit on skid steers/telehandlers and uses tablet-guided, AI-assisted navigation to direct operators to drop color-coded piles/modules from a site blueprint at up to 2-inch accuracy, generating automated productivity reports.
How You Use It
Data Transparency
Exactly what this tool uses and how
Not publicly documented — no self-serve API product; hardware and software are delivered as an integrated field systemUse Cases
- ·Autonomous construction layout/staking for solar farm pile and module locations
- ·High-speed point marking for earthworks, grading, and ground improvement projects (dynamic compaction, wick drains, soil columns)
- ·Line marking for roads, parking lots, and airport pavement striping (CivDot Mini)
- ·AI-guided material placement (piles, modules) for skid steer/telehandler operators via CivNav
- ·Productivity tracking and machine control on large-acreage renewable energy construction sites
Pricing
Research Sources & Data QualityLast verified: 2026-07-16
- https://www.civrobotics.com/
- https://www.civrobotics.com/pricing
- https://www.civrobotics.com/faq
- https://www.civrobotics.com/solutions
- https://www.civrobotics.com/success-stories
- https://www.civrobotics.com/privacy-policy
- https://www.civrobotics.com/robots/machine-control
- https://news.trimble.com/2022-09-21-Trimble-Ventures-Invests-in-Civ-Robotics-A-Construction-Tech-Startup-Focused-on-Autonomous-Surveying-Solutions
- https://www.enr.com/articles/60976-automated-layout-startup-civ-robotics-secures-75m-series-a-funding-round
- https://www.therobotreport.com/civ-robotics-provides-civnav-ai-navigation-solar-construction-systems/
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