# Rugged Robotics

> Rugged Robotics delivers construction layout as a service: its team prepares CAD and BIM data, brings Mark1 robots to jobsites, and prints full-scale lines, labels, and installation details on unfinished floors. It serves commercial builders and automated-facility projects, including government buildings, manufacturing plants, warehouses, and data centers.

- **Founded:** 2018
- **Headquarters:** Houston, United States
- **Founders:** Derrick Morse (Co-founder and CEO), Logan Farrell (Co-founder and CTO)
- **Products:** Mark1, Full-service layout
- **Notable:** Received the 2025 IEEE Robotics and Automation Award for Product Innovation, confirmed by IEEE., Mesquite case study reports layout compressed to three days per floor and rework reduced by more than 75%., Brogoitti case study reports more than 3,000 marks over 44,000 square feet in four days, with projected layout and installation falling from eight weeks to under two.

## Products & services

- **Mark1** — Autonomous mobile layout platform with a holonomic drive, a 5.5-inch printhead, and passive-target navigation; prints linework, symbols, complex geometry, and multi-line text directly onto unfinished floors. Rugged advertises accuracy of less than 1/8 inch.
- **Full-service layout** — Project-based service covering digital file review and preparation, jobsite mobilization, coordinate checks, robot operation, and delivery of printed multi-trade or equipment layouts.

## Achievements

- Received the 2025 IEEE Robotics and Automation Award for Product Innovation, confirmed by IEEE.
- Mesquite case study reports layout compressed to three days per floor and rework reduced by more than 75%.
- Brogoitti case study reports more than 3,000 marks over 44,000 square feet in four days, with projected layout and installation falling from eight weeks to under two.
- Hensel Phelps data-center case study reports more than 750 layout hours freed up and framing installation more than 15% faster.

## Latest updates

- **2025-05** — Received IEEE’s Product Innovation award at ICRA 2025; the company published its announcement in June.
- **2025-08** — Published its Hensel Phelps hyperscale data-center case study, covering five deployments across more than 250,000 square feet.
- **2026-10** — Website reviewed on October 5 positions full-service layout for commercial construction and automated facilities, with field crews mobilizing across North America; this is an observation date, not an announcement date.

## Links

- Website: https://rugged-robotics.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rugged-robotics/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/RuggedRobotics
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@RuggedRobotics

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Last updated: 2026-10-05