A round-up of BIM and digital construction stories that you might have missed in the past seven days.
Underfloor robot raises £1.6m
Q-Bot, the company behind the underfloor insulation-spraying robot, has raised £1.6m to accelerate its rollout across the UK and meet growing overseas demand. Q-Bot works with both social and private landlords, as well as homeowners, and has insulated more than 3,000 properties. It has also secured a contract with a large national insulation company and a local installer in France.
Will Apple RoomPlan scan to BIM?
Could the new app from Apple, RoomPlan, be a cheap and quick method of scanning to BIM, Geo Week News has asked. RoomPlan, launched at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, uses the camera and LiDAR scanner on iOS devices to create a 3D floorplan layout of any room, even taking into account any furniture present.
ALICE in funding land
AI construction sequencing platform ALICE Technologies has secured $30m (£24.6m) in its latest funding round. Among the new investors is Bouygues, which ALICE started working with last year. ALICE founder and CEO René Morkos said: “This Series B funding round will fuel the aggressive hiring, global growth, continued product innovation, and sales and marketing expansion required to make ALICE an industry standard.”
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