Maker's videoDusty Robotics · 13 Oct 2026
AU2026 Session: Prefab Promised a Lot. Here's Why It Underdelivered.
Against the record
FieldPrinter, from Dusty Robotics, is at stage 4 of 5 on our ladder: paying customers. Delivered and paid for, beyond pilots. The latest milestone on its record is from 10 Oct 2024: Dusty made FieldPrinter 2 generally available, and said contractors had printed more than 100 million square feet of layout with its robots.
This video comes from the maker's own channel, and makers show their robots at their best. The stage above comes from dated public records, not from the video.
From the video's description
One in five contractors doing prefab saw their costs go up, according to FMI's 2024 survey. Dodge found only about a third cut their schedule by more than 5%. So what are the teams getting real results from prefab doing differently? At Autodesk University 2026, Scott Nyborg of Dusty Robotics sat down with Kaushal Diwan of @DPRConstruction and Josh Lewis of FrameTec to compare notes from years of running prefab programs, across a range of applications from hyperscale data centers to homebuilding. What you'll hear: - Why design and coordination topped FMI's list of prefab success factors, and where layout fits in - How DPR is turning over 100 MW of capacity per month at their hyperscale data center project in Abilene, Texas, where 9,000 craft professionals work together on site with a recordable incident rate of 0.73 - How FrameTec cut framing cycle times 75 to 80%, and made the trades t…
Written by Dusty Robotics on YouTube.
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