Tag: surveying

  • Trimble and Exyn Technologies launch autonomous construction surveying technology

    Trimble and Exyn Technologies launch autonomous construction surveying technology

    Industrial technology company Trimble and Exyn Technologies, a developer of multi-platform robotic autonomy for complex, GPS-denied environments, have agreed a strategic collaboration to explore the use of autonomous construction surveying technology. The solution will integrate Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot, the ExynPak powered by ExynAI and the Trimble X7 total station. It will enable fully autonomous…

  • Civ Robotics raises $5 million seed funding round

    Civ Robotics raises $5 million seed funding round

    Civ Robotics has closed a $5 million seed funding round led by ff Venture Capital and Alley Robotics Ventures, with participation from Trimble Ventures. Civ Robotics’ autonomous surveying solution, CivDot, is an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), designed for civil engineering and infrastructure projects, such as solar farms, roadways, data centers and power plants to name…

  • Austrian start-up Sodex automates essential construction processes

    Austrian start-up Sodex automates essential construction processes

    Sodex Innovations has released a range of new technologies to automate the construction industry. The company says that, through this system, the surveying, documentation and billing of each excavation will be largely automated. Effort, time and costs are to be minimized for construction companies in the area of administration. And this with an assistance system…

  • Oceaneering selected to ‘digitally’ transform Pacific Drilling’s global fleet

    Oceaneering selected to ‘digitally’ transform Pacific Drilling’s global fleet

    Oceaneering International, Inc., and Pacific Drilling have entered into a five-year Digital Services Package agreement to provide Pacific’s customers with better reliability and improved throughput enabling streaming video and real-time data. This will allow the provision of emerging services such as remote ROV piloting, surveying, and automation aboard Pacific Drilling’s high-specification drillship fleet. As a…

  • Yamaha launches new autonomous boat

    Yamaha launches new autonomous boat

    Company says the Breeze 10 unmanned boat is an electric craft for dam lake bed sediment surveying Yamaha has developed the Breeze 10 autonomous unmanned compact electric survey craft. The company designed the new product to support sounding work such as measuring the sediment levels of dams, and will commence business rentals principally aimed at commercial surveyors in August 2016. Breeze 10 is an electric FRP craft…