500,000+ Marks and counting!

Hong Kong, China – August Robotics, the leading Floor Marking solution provider, announced that they have delivered more than 500,000+ marks for Exhibition customers all over the world

A Momentous Milestone for Exhibition Floor Marking

August Robotics is proud to announce a cumulative total of over 500,000+ marks created for Exhibition customers all over the world! This momentous milestone was reached in April 2024 while marking in Germany - which is where our Exhibition floor marking journey first began

The volume of marks being painted has grown significantly in recent months due to the onboarding of several large customers and a sizable increase in mark volume per show. As a point of reference, more than 17% of the total marks we’ve ever marked were created in just Q1 2024!

Stamping Our Way to Approval

This first and second generation of Lionel used a stamp mechanism to create marks. It was efficient and allowed us to prove the concept of automated floor marking.

Caption: Lionel Gen 2 stamping a corner booth mark in Atlanta, Georgia

To improve marking volume we quickly iterated onto versions of Lionel with greater range and sensor technology. These helped us manage bigger halls and to utilise more advanced features such as ‘fleet server’ - the ability for multiple Lionels to work together.

Caption: Our fleet server allowed multiple Lionel robots to operate together

A Pen-sive Short-term Solution

To meet customer demands for a greater variety of marks, we then released a version of Lionel with a ‘pen’ marking mechanism. The robot used a plastic pen that would physically paint the marks on the floor. This mechanism was accurate but the added friction and mechanical stress from painting led to few too many broken pen tips!

Given we were aiming to ensure continuous, reliable operation for hours on end, this was not a suitable long-term solution.

Caption: A pen-marking robot at work in Leipzig on one of its few jobs

Paint Spray Leading the Way

After an extensive round of internal development, the team finally settled on the solution we still use to this day - a paint-spraying mechanism. This mechanism allows Lionel to deliver accurate and high resolution custom marks, while keeping mechanical stress to a minimum.

The Mechanism sprays paint in a thin line that allows great mark resolution and accuracy within 3mm. It also allows much greater levels of flexibility and modularity, with less consumable parts and allowing fast replacement of paint colors or types if needed.

Caption: Our paint-spraying mechanism offered the best combination of speed, accuracy and flexibility

Our product and engineering teams are constantly innovating to ensure Lionel delivers the world’s most reliable, accurate and flexible floor marking experience. We’ve got some really exciting tech in our R&D testing pipeline that we’re excited to bring to market…expect an announcement very soon!

We're proud of the value our Lionel robots have delivered for our Exhibition customers all over the world - we’re expecting more thrills and challenges ahead as we aim to ‘drop a tonne’ (reach the 1 Million marks milestone)!

See Lionel in action on YouTube: Youtube Lionel Playlist

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Press Contact
Sanjay Subramaniam
Marketing Lead, August Robotics
sanjay@augustrobotics.com