Lionel
About
About Lionel
Lionel imports a digital floor plan and applies points, crosses, labels and line references directly onto the work surface. Autonomous navigation guides the robot around people and obstacles across concrete, carpet, tile and dusty floors.
The system marks up to 90 points per hour with stated precision of ±5 millimetres. Typical outputs include booth corners, electrical positions, rigging points and identifiers. August Robotics supplies planning, onsite operation and project support for exhibitions, construction and industrial fit-outs.
Capabilities
Source-backed capabilities
- Operating environments: Exhibition halls and construction fit-out floors
- Control modes: Autonomous
- Construction layout printing
Claimed - Print booth corners, numbers, rigging points and electrical layouts on floor surfaces. - environment: Exhibition halls and construction fit-out floors
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Operations
- Operating Milestone
more than 1 million floor marks - 2025-05-28 - Exhibition and construction floor marking - August Robotics reported that Lionel robots had completed more than one million floor marks for customers worldwide by May 28, 2025.
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Timeline
- August Robotics raises $30M Series B
2026-05-21 - Funding - 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 support new robot development for construction, exhibition and infrastructure customers. The announcement highlighted autonomous downward-drilling robots for data-center construction and Lionel fleets that had marked more than 300 million square feet worldwide.
Source - Lionel robots pass one million customer floor marks
2025-05-28 - Production Milestone - August Robotics said Lionel robots had produced more than one million customer floor marks worldwide by May 28, 2025. The milestone followed six years of customer operations after the first Lionel version launched in 2019. August Robotics said it had evolved Lionel from a high-touch service into a productized lease model that lets customers deploy their own robots.
Source - August Robotics and ACOB launch Lionel services in Mexico
2025-05-16 - Partnership - ACOB became the local partner supporting Lionel adoption in Mexico. The collaboration targets exhibition organizers seeking automated layout and floor-marking workflows. August Robotics described the expansion as Lionel's entry into the Mexican market.
Source - August Robotics launches Lionel PX marking system
2025-03-28 - Product Launch - Lionel PX became available to new customers and to existing Lionel operators through a parts swap during scheduled maintenance. August Robotics said testing across multiple venues and conditions produced consistently improved drying, paint use, marking speed and line resolution. The company reported 80% faster drying, 50% more marks per bottle, 20% faster marking and 50% more line resolution than its fielded paint-spray mechanism.
Source - August Robotics launches Lionel for Construction at AWCI Build 23
2023-03-13 - Product Launch - 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 industrial fit-out workflows.
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