August Robotics
August Robotics builds Lionel, an autonomous marking robot for construction and fit-out sites. Lionel uses cloud-based job setup and tracking to mark floor layouts accurately, helping teams transfer digital plans onto real jobsite surfaces with less manual layout work.
Market context
August Robotics is pushing construction robotics toward repeatable site work rather than one-off demonstrations. Its drilling and floor-marking systems target schedule-critical layout and installation workflows where precision, labor availability and speed directly affect large infrastructure projects.
Facts
- Website: https://augustrobotics.com
- HQ: Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Founded: 2017
- Segment: Construction
- Known funding rounds: 3
Investors
- Big Pi Ventures - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-05-22
- Blackbird - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-05-22
- Future Family Office - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-05-22
- GS Futures - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-05-22
- Skip Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-05-22
- Tanarra - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-05-22
Autonomous construction robots for plan-to-site execution
August Robotics develops application-specific robot fleets that turn digital construction and event plans into precise on-site work, with floor marking and downward drilling as the clearest commercial workflows.
- Target environment: Large indoor construction sites, data-center builds, prefabricated construction environments, exhibition halls, warehouses and industrial fit-out projects.
- Deployment model: Robot fleets deployed into customer sites with August Robotics software for plan ingestion, localization, task planning, fleet coordination and operational execution.
- Customer context: General contractors, data-center builders, exhibition venues, industrial fit-out teams, infrastructure operators and partners that need repeatable precision work across large slabs or floor plans.
- Workflow context: Layout marking, drilling coordinate execution, floor-plan translation, fleet scheduling, precision localization, task verification and site productivity improvement.
- Commercial maturity: Commercially scaled beyond prototype stage, with Lionel marking more than 300 million square feet and drilling robots deployed in hyperscale data-center construction environments.
- Market position: Construction robotics builder focused on narrow but high-value workflows where automation can remove manual measurement, marking and drilling bottlenecks.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on jobsite readiness, plan-data quality, safety approval, operator training, integration with construction schedules and reliable performance in unfinished site conditions.
- Adjacent context: Construction robotics, digital construction, data-center infrastructure buildout, robotic layout, autonomous drilling, industrial fit-out automation and mobile robot fleet orchestration.
- Source confidence: high
Events
- 2026-07-09 - Product Launch - DEWALT and August Robotics commercially launch DALE drilling robot - DALE is now available for commercial order after pilots across 26 data-center construction phases. The pilot program drilled more than 230,000 holes, reduced project timelines by 190 weeks and reported 99.97% location and depth accuracy. The system uses Augus…
- 2026-05-22 - Funding - August Robotics raises $30M Series B - August Robotics raised a US$30 million Series B led by Big Pi Ventures, with Blackbird, Skip Capital, Tanarra, Future Family Office and GS Futures participating. The company said the funding will scale production, strengthen its AI and robotics platform, and…
- 2023-03-13 - Product Launch - August Robotics launches Lionel for Construction at AWCI Build 23 - August Robotics announced the commercial launch of Lionel for Construction at AWCI Build 23. The company positioned the robot for construction layout after proving floor-plan marking in exhibitions. The launch moved Lionel into commercial construction and ind…
- 2020-06-15 - Funding - August Robotics raises $9.3M Series A - The company journey page lists a $9.3 million Series A in mid-2020. The round followed the first Lionel release and a period of focused R&D after the exhibition industry shut down. The funding helped August Robotics continue product development before Lionel…
- 2018-06-15 - Funding - August Robotics raises $3.7M in seed funding - The company journey page lists a $3.7 million seed round in mid-2018. The funding supported the early Lionel project, which began as an autonomous floor-marking robot. August Robotics moved from early engineering work toward its first Lionel prototype over th…
Team
- Alex Wyatt - Founder and CEO - Leads August Robotics' platform strategy, global expansion and construction-robotics commercialization.
- Jie (Leo) Li - Chief Product Officer - Supports product execution across August Robotics' common robotics platform and application-specific robot systems.
- Marshal Shi - Chief Information Officer - Supports information systems and digital infrastructure for August Robotics' global operations.
- Vuyo Makhuvha - Chief Commercial Officer - Supports commercial expansion for August Robotics' construction, exhibition and industrial automation markets.
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