August Robotics
"Build Faster, Safer and Smarter than Ever Before"
August Robotics builds autonomous floor-marking and drilling robots for exhibitions and construction, co-developing the DALE robot with Dewalt.
August Robotics is a construction and exhibitions robotics company headquartered at 4650 S Arville St, Las Vegas, Nevada. Founded by CEO Alex Wyatt, the company began by automating floor marking for the global exhibitions industry, building its first commercial robot, Lionel, after a concept phase that started in mid-2018 and a public unveiling at the UFI Global Conference in 2019. Lionel is an autonomous mobile robot that lays out event floor plans and booth markings without manual chalk-lining, reducing setup labor and improving marking accuracy for exhibition organizers. The company runs a lease-based service model rather than selling robots outright, and by May 2025 it had completed more than 1 million floor marks worldwide.
Building on its exhibitions business, August Robotics expanded into construction: its Industrial Fit-Out line applies the same autonomous marking approach to commercial and industrial build-outs, and its robotic drilling product supports downward drilling for ceiling and overhead installation work on job sites, including data center construction. In July 2026 the company partnered with power-tool maker Dewalt to co-develop DALE, a downward-drilling construction robot intended to automate overhead drilling tasks such as anchor and conduit installation that are otherwise performed manually from ladders or lifts. In May 2026 August Robotics closed a $30 million Series B round led by Big Pi Ventures, with participation from existing investors Blackbird, Skip Capital, Tanarra and Future Family Office plus new investor GS Futures, to accelerate its autonomous construction robotics platform.
August Robotics maintains international operations beyond its Las Vegas base, including teams in Dusseldorf, Germany; Carlton, Australia; and Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China, reflecting its customer footprint across the exhibitions and construction industries in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. The company's robots are designed to operate autonomously on job sites and event floors that are often unstructured and populated by workers and equipment, requiring precise navigation and marking without dedicated infrastructure. In 2024 the company received the ESCA Innovation Award for Exhibition Technology in recognition of Lionel's impact on trade show operations.
The company differentiates itself from generic construction robotics vendors by focusing narrowly on marking and drilling tasks that are labor-intensive, repetitive and safety-sensitive, such as overhead drilling from height, rather than attempting general-purpose construction automation. Its dual-market strategy, serving both the exhibitions industry and the construction and data-center sector, is central to its go-to-market approach, letting it apply the same core marking and navigation technology across different verticals. August Robotics targets exhibition organizers, general contractors and data center builders as its primary customer base.
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