Bedrock Robotics
Retrofit autonomy kits that turn existing excavators and other heavy equipment into autonomous construction machines.
- Bedrock Robotics raises $270 million at a $1.75 billion valuation to take excavators operator-less in 2026
Bedrock Robotics, founded in 2024 by former Waymo engineers, raised a $270 million Series B co-led by CapitalG and Valor Atreides AI Fund, taking total funding past $350 million. The San Francisco company retrofits existing excavators with autonomy and is targeting its first operator-less deployments this year, a month after Caterpillar unveiled its own construction autonomy line.
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