Abstract: A device for lying floors of any kind such as tiles, majolica, brickwork, concrete tiles etc., very skillfully without the need for a skilled tile layer and with a great efficiency in terms of paved area per time unit. The device is automated and includes a bridge crane provided with elements for gripping, aligning, and shifting one or more tiles at the same time and being able to move along a plane parallel to the floor on a couple of rails or guides generally coplanar with each other and disposed along two directions perpendicular to each other.