Dusty Robotics

Traditional hand layout beats up good people. Daley's Drywall & Taping knows it. “I’m not sure everybody appreciates what it takes to do hand layout," says J.R. Roy, BIM Coordinator who is a fifth generation carpenter who came up in the field. "You've got one guy reading plans, another guy holding the chalk line. You're walking out 40 feet, you're walking back 40 feet, you're pulling out the tape, you're snapping it back, you're pulling the chalk line out, you're snapping the chalk line, you're double-checking the plans, then you're going back out again, then you're measuring 8 inches, you pull out your speed square. It’s all of those motions, over and over.” You won't hear any argument from Theodore De La Rosa, Layout Foreman. “Dusty is definitely a little easier on the body when you’ve been running drywall for 20-plus years. At my stage of my career, I’m happy to be doing this instead of hand layout for sure.” #construction #framing #drywall #VDC #BIMtoField #ConstructionQuality #MultiTradeLayout #ConstructionTechnology #AutomatedLayout #DustyRobotics #ConstructionWorkforce #WorkforceDevelopment

How does Dusty handle bumps, holes, and rough concrete? Without even blinking. (Actually... Dusty never blinks.) We know you're working on a real jobsite, and real jobsites are imperfect. Dusty's built for that. It uses a super-accurate laser tracker to check its position dozens of times a second -- so even if a bump throws it off course, it corrects itself instantly. So you can trust the accuracy of your layout even if your jobsite is... you know, under construction. #AutomatedLayout #RealWorldLayout #BuiltForConstruction #RobotsInConstruction #JobsiteTech #ConstructionTech #FutureOfConstruction

RFIs always blow up early in construction. Every superintendent expects it. Every PM has lived through it. You can coordinate for months. You can review the model ten different ways. And the second crews show up onsite, the questions start coming. Not because anyone messed up. It’s because real-world tolerances don’t show themselves until work actually starts going in. Everything looks clean in the model. Clearances check out. No clashes flagged in coordination. Then the slab is within tolerance but shifted a couple inches and now a beam is sitting right where the duct is supposed to be. I hear a lot of teams say the answer is more coordination. Another round of clash detection. Tighter modeling. Try to get everything perfect before you ever mobilize. That’s never how it plays out. Most of the real questions show up when someone is actually trying to install the work. The contractors seeing better results aren’t just doing more precon. They’re getting field input into the plan earlier. Supers and foremen pressure testing the plan before the schedule is locked. Not learning new software. Just sanity-checking whether it works when you’re standing there with a tape measure and thinking through the install. What that changes is simple. Less waiting around for answers. Less rework. Fewer surprises once installs start. I see the same thing across different trades and jobs. When layout is driven straight from the model and used to pressure test sequence, those issues show up earlier, when there’s still time to adjust. That’s where Dusty Robotics fits in for a lot of teams. It lets field crews validate the plan through layout and install planning, without having to become BIM experts. RFIs aren’t going away. The only real choice is when you want to deal with them. During layout and install planning. Or when your crew is standing there burning hours. The better contractors made that choice a while ago.

What is Dusty to Daley's Drywall & Taping? A competitive advantage. "Dusty has saved Daley’s over $300,000 in the last two years in direct labor savings,” says John Silveira, Construction Manager. That’s to say nothing of the savings realized from reduction of rework, increased productivity for installation crews, and alignment between trades. "It's not just the labor decrease, it's the schedule advancement,” says J.R. Roy, BIM Coordinator. “If hand layout on a difficult job might take seven to ten days, with Dusty we get it done in two, two and a half days. And at the same time, you lay out the electrician's anchor points while you lay out your walls. That also impacts the schedule." "I do not know the words ‘We can't do Dusty here.’ I want Dusty on every job,” says Silveira. "It provides that wow factor to both clients and GCs. It’s our little robot business partner!" Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/gfRJ-kSu #construction #framing #drywall #VDC #BIMtoField #ConstructionQuality #MultiTradeLayout #ConstructionTechnology #AutomatedLayout #DustyRobotics

Layout hasn’t changed much in decades: Each trade shows up, marks out their scope, and moves on. It’s slow. It’s siloed. And it’s a reliable way to bake coordination problems into the job. Multi-Trade Layout is the alternative. It’s a workflow where trades and the GC coordinate layout up front (during VDC), agree on what goes on the slab, and then print everyone’s layout with Dusty in a single pass — using model data as the source of truth. Here's a key thing to be clear about: Multi-Trade Layout = the workflow Automated Layout = the technology You can use Dusty's #FieldPrinter2 without changing your layout workflow — and it'll make you faster, more accurate, and save you money. But new tools open up new ways to work. When you ALSO change the workflow, you unlock the real payoff: fewer field conflicts, cleaner handoffs, faster production. The trades know what each other are doing because it's been on the floor all along. Want to know more? We dive deep in our blog series on Multi-Trade Layout Best Practices. #2 in the series is a great place to jump in: what it is, how it works, and why leading GCs are adopting it now. https://lnkd.in/gCqM6nRC Curious: If you’ve tried Multi-Trade Layout, what surprised you most? #MultiTradeLayout #AutomatedLayout #BIMtoField #FileToField #construction #VDC #layout #constructiontechnology #JobsiteProductivity #DustyRobotics #RobotsInConstruction #FutureOfConstruction

Why is construction risky? Because construction jobsites aren't as predictable as a controlled factory enviornment. But according to a recent article in OFFSITE Builder Magazine's recent survey of robots in construction by Dr. Zena Ryder, robots like Dusty are changing that. Zachary Reiss-Davis, Dusty's Sr. Director of Marketing who was interviewed for the story, said "Dusty takes everything in the digital model and prints it at 1:1 scale directly onto the concrete floor." Automated layout with Dusty connects the digital source of truth to truth on the ground — creating clarity between trades, accelerating schedules, and giving builders a framework for managing risk downward. He stresses that you don't need a degree in robotics to operate Dusty. "We pride ourselves on the ease of use of the system and our customers operate it themselves," he says. Putting the power of automated layout directly in the hands of construction professionals has been key to Dusty's ability to make a big difference on real jobsites. Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/gTny3jnP #BIMtoField #FileToField #AutomatedLayout #RealWorldLayout #RobotsInConstruction #ConstructionTech #FutureOfConstruction

“In this industry, we’re in the habit of pointing fingers. At a trade, at the designers — everybody gets a chance to be the bad guy at some point. But [construction risk] doesn’t really come from anyone in particular. It’s really the whole industry failing as an industry. If we don’t get information from the model to the field, we’re wasting the precon investment. Dusty absolutely does that.” That’s how John Ford, President of Ford Drywall & Stucco, thinks about layout: not as “a task,” but as risk control — across every stakeholder on the job. And when the plan changes? The job shouldn’t wait for another round of markups and misunderstandings. “We can accurately print anything we want, in any language we want. And what we get out is consistent surfaces, verified compliance, reduced rework.” Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/gVcbuKgM #construction #framing #drywall #VDC #BIMtoField #ConstructionQuality #MultiTradeLayout #ConstructionTechnology #AutomatedLayout #DustyRobotics New Vision Agency

Let the model speak for itself and ditch the RFIs, change orders, and endless confusion in the field. Every point and line of text that Dusty prints comes straight from the coordinated design. And because Dusty prints crystal clear, easty-to-read text FAST, there's no disincentive to including lots of points and text in your layouts. Which means every point can tell a story: what to install, which trade, and how to find more information in the plans and specs if you need it. Every line of annotation can provide actionable information to installers. No more second-guessing what the layout means. No more wasted time looking back to the plans to confirm your best guess. That's #FileToField with Dusty. #AutomatedLayout #DustyRobotics #BIMtoField #ConstructionTech #FieldPrintPlatform #FutureOfConstruction #JobsiteClarity