Hawaiian Dredging has used manual processes to track the productivity of the cranes on its jobsites in the past, but a deployment of Versatile's CraneView sensor package is automating some of that tedious and difficult work.
The dog-shaped Spot robot from Boston Dynamics will be available next year with a Trimble laser scanner and GNSS antenna built in, for an out-of-the box autonomous reality capture on jobsites.
Tool manufacturer Hilti is launching a semi-autonomous overhead drilling robot to aid overhead drilling, which is one of the most strenuous tasks in the building trades.
Conference wrapup on Oct. 16 offered a glimpse at what comes next–the state of emerging technologies and how construction tech fits in the context of a changing industry market.