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Marks points, lines and labels on floors from digital plans, tracked by a total station or laser tracker
- 9
- Deployments
- 1
- Companies that ran it
How it works on your site
LAYRO, from the Austrian surveying firm Trigonos, drives to each point of a digital layout and marks points, lines, axes and text labels on the floor, tracked by a total station or laser tracker that the operator sets up first. It sets out production lines, robot cells, racking, machine positions and data-centre racks across whole halls, while the crew establishes the reference network, loads the planning data and supervises the run.
MEP Penetration Marking
Installation and connection points from the planning data, such as cable and utility routes in a data centre, go down as individual marked points with an ID label beside each. The robot works through them on a calculated shortest path, at 250 points an hour by the maker's figure.
Wall Line Marking
The robot drives to each point loaded from the digital plan and marks line segments, axes and corner marks on the slab, with a text label at the point. A total station or laser tracker set up by the operator tracks its position, and active tilt compensation corrects floor inclines up to 1.5°.
Field outcomes
Who has run it
9 deployments · 1 company · 3 countries
Will it work on your site
- Surface
- Concrete floors in halls and on site, including freshly poured slabs; active tilt compensation corrects floor inclines up to 1.5°.
- Site preparation
- The operator sets up and aligns the measuring device (total station or laser tracker) on the site's reference points, then loads the points before marking starts.
- Positional accuracy
- Adjustable point accuracy from 0.2 to 4 mm (vendor).
- Speed
- Vendor: 250 points per hour, up to 10× faster than manual layout. Vendor case: 20,000+ points over about 12,000 m² in two weeks (North America, 2026).
- What it prints
- Points, lines, axes, corner marks and text labels (IDs) at each point, in black, blue, red or UV.
- BIM/CAD requirements
- Digital planning data as points, lines, axes and labels, loaded onto the robot; it calculates the marking path as shortest path or round trip.
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- Navigation
- Tracked by an external measuring device set up by the operator: a Leica total station, or an API or Hexagon laser tracker.
- Autonomy
- Semi-autonomous: drives to each layout point, marks and labels it by itself. One operator aligns the measuring device, loads the points and supervises the hall.
- Environment
- Built for construction sites and industrial halls; marked a floor layout between spoil heaps on freshly poured concrete at a North American site in 2026.
- Power
- Two 18V batteries, hot-swappable without stopping the marking run.
- Weight
- 16 kg, with a 75 × 52 cm footprint.
- Site connectivity
- Works fully offline: planning data is processed on the robot, with no continuous data transmission and no cloud.
- Fleet management
- Several LAYRO units run in parallel on large areas; two people ran two robots for 16,000 points in two weeks in North America (2026).
- Certifications
- Trigonos's mobile 3D metrology service has been ISO 9001 certified since 26 August 2020.
- Other capabilities
- Measures floor heights below 0.5 mm and records the values for planning and documentation.
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