Civ Robotics

Civ Robotics, Inc. is a San Francisco-based construction technology company that develops autonomous unmanned ground vehicles for construction layout and surveying. Its flagship CivDot robots drive across outdoor job sites and mark surveyed coordinates, replacing manual staking work performed by traditional survey crews. The product line includes CivDot+, which uses a robotic laser pointer mechanism with sub-millimeter movements and a 6-axis IMU for tilt compensation to achieve accuracy of 3/100 ft (8 mm) at up to three points per minute; CivDot, which marks with spray paint at up to 1/10 ft (30 mm) accuracy and up to eight points per minute using an AI-based navigation algorithm; and CivDot Mini, which lays out solid and dashed lines at up to 200 ft (60 m) per minute with sub-inch accuracy for highway striping, runways, curbs and parking lots. The company also lists CivNav and CivMove products.

The robots ingest CSV and DXF files in local and state plane coordinate systems, capture ground elevation for every coordinate laid out (producing an as-built with topographic overlay), and take RTK corrections via NTRIP or Trimble, Topcon and Leica base stations, making them platform-agnostic alongside existing survey equipment. The company positions the systems as usable without prior land surveying experience, allowing contractors to staff layout work with general labor. Applications span solar farms, earthworks, ground improvements, airports, roads and parking lots, with additional stated end markets in oil and gas, data centers, power plants and industrial development. As of mid-2025 the company reported more than 100 robots in the field, over 10 million marked coordinates, involvement in more than 20 GW of solar farm construction, and that it had reached profitability that year.

Founding story

Co-founder and CEO Tom Yeshurun previously managed large-scale infrastructure projects, including a $100 million civil engineering initiative, and started the company to automate repetitive and tedious construction site tasks beginning with layout, citing frustration with inefficiency in construction.

Business model

Civ Robotics manufactures and supplies construction layout robots to contractors and engineering firms; its website lists pricing and a reservation flow for CivDot+, CivDot and CivDot Mini units, and the company describes customers as operating fleets of its robots on their job sites.

Traction

By July 2025 Civ Robotics reported more than 100 robots deployed to job sites globally, over 10 million coordinates marked, participation in construction of more than 20 GW of solar farms, and profitability reached that year. Named partners and customers include Bechtel, Signal Energy Constructors, Trimble and Cupertino Electricals; Bechtel stated it had used CivDot for four years and reported a sixfold improvement in survey time on utility-scale solar projects.

Latest developments

In July 2025 the company closed a $7.5 million Series A led by AlleyCorp with Bobcat Company, ff Venture Capital and prior seed investors, taking total funding to $12.5 million, and said it planned to announce a new jobsite autonomy product later that summer while expanding its product line and entering additional international markets.