Bedrock Robotics
We’ve spent the last decade watching autonomy shift from labs and test tracks into the real world with companies like Waymo. Now it’s showing up somewhere even more uncharted: construction.
Across industrial sites, Bedrock Robotics-powered excavators are already operating with minimal human supervision. These machines are operating for longer hours, coordinating as fleets and performing work that once required entire crews, using only sensors and software. Bedrock is deploying real autonomy in highly sophisticated environments at real scale, reducing machine idle time and improving safety. All of this while contractors face one of the largest labour gaps in modern infrastructure history.
Co-Founders Boris Sojman, Kevin Peterson and Ajay Gummalla built the systems used in Waymo's fully autonomous vehicles and are now applying similar methods to heavy machinery.
Kearny Jackson is honoured to join CapitalG, Valor Atreides, Eclipse, 8VC, and other investors in Bedrock Robotics ’ journey as part of their $270M Series B fundraise.
You can read more about the company here (NYT).
Really sharp connection from Waymo to construction equipment. The part about reducing idle time is more subtle than it sounds bc in construction, coordinating equipment scheduls is usually where projects bleed money. I worked ona building site one summer and saw excavators literally sit for hours waiting on other stuff. Fleets that can coordinate themselves could actually fix that bottleneck in ways human schedulers can't scale.