DEWALT and August Robotics' Downward Drilling Robot Named to TIME's Best Inventions of 2026
DEWALT, a Stanley Black & Decker brand, announced that DALE, its autonomous downward drilling robot developed with August Robotics, was named to TIME's Best Inventions of 2026 in the Robotics category. On live data center jobsites, DALE has drilled at speeds up to 10 times faster than conventional methods, cut project timelines by more than 300 weeks across 44 construction phases, and achieved over 99% accuracy across more than 385,000 holes.
Key figures
- Holes drilled
- more than 385,000
- Drilling accuracy
- over 99%
- Drilling speed multiple
- up to 10x faster than traditional methods
- Project timeline reduction
- more than 300 weeks across 44 data center construction phases
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