EDUCATIONAL
THREE GENERATIONS
Manual, Semiautomatic, Automatic: The Total Station Family Tree
From reading a scale by eye to a robot that finds its own target across a construction site. Here's how three generations of engineering got us here.
Not every total station on a job site today does the same amount of work. Some still need a person to read the horizontal circle by hand. Others can find, lock onto, and follow a prism entirely on their own. The gap between those two instruments is decades of engineering, and it happened in three distinct generations.
