Today, @BedrockRobotics emerges from stealth with $80M in funding led by @eclipseventures and @8VC to bring fully autonomous systems to the construction industry. Read more from our CEO @bsofman on the company vision and where we’re headed: https://t.co/MU9WEA6TvB Now, more

"Build the machine that builds the machine." Our CTO @kevinpeterson talked to @DoerrfeldBill to share hard-won lessons from building autonomous systems at Waymo, Caterpillar, and now at Bedrock—including why one end-to-end model beats many small ones. Read more on @TheLeadDev:

If you’re starting an autonomy company today, public roads are the hardest place to begin. We sat down with @bsofman (CEO @BedrockRobotics) & @malharhar (Special Projects Head @AppliedInt) to discuss picking the right problem for physical AI.

Our CTO Kevin Peterson spoke at an @AWSreInvent session on Physical AI yesterday alongside leaders from @nvidia, RLWRLD, and @tutorintel. Generative AI, cloud infrastructure, and modular design are opening new possibilities for how autonomous systems can be built and deployed.

Meet @BedrockRobotics: Autonomy for the machines that build our world. 🚜 👉 Bedrock retrofits existing heavy construction equipment with an autonomy kit (sensors, compute, and ML) that turns excavators into fully autonomous machines in a single day. Contractors can switch

Developing our technology on active job sites with experienced contractors and their crews means we're addressing the exact challenges that limit project capacity today— enabling contractors to scale up, take on more projects to meet demand, and deliver results with greater

When machines have autonomous capabilities, construction sites could: - Operate through 115° heat - Run overnight to compress project schedules - Track every cubic yard in real-time - Free skilled workers up for tasks that require more nuance and more creative thinking We're

The real story isn't the tonnage. It's what Dan Green, the Project Manager on this mass excavation site told us: "The biggest challenge isn't finding operators—it's keeping experienced ones engaged for months of repetitive earthmoving in remote locations." Dan and his crews

We just completed construction's largest-known supervised autonomy deployment with @Sundt. Same excavators. Same workflows. Same dump truck loading process crews already use. The difference? Machines that could soon run 24/7 on repetitive tasks.

65,000 cubic yards moved with supervised autonomy on a single 130-acre site. Not with new equipment. Not with massive capital investment. But with autonomy retrofits that will transform how construction operates. Here's what this means for the industry 🧵

Eight robotics startups, from @BedrockRobotics to @DiligentRobots, just got $200K @awscloud +@nvidia compute to merge code with carbon. Physical AI isn’t coming, it’s already building, driving, and walking. Let’s keep the conversation going on LinkedIn:

Great to see some of the first autonomy (with safety driver) at @BedrockRobotics demo day on beautiful Mare Island Slope of improvement is incredible Let’s build

Our CEO @bsofman spoke with Robotics & Automation News about what changed, why this moment is different, and how the industry is responding:

The construction industry gets labeled as slow to adopt technology, but that's not what we've seen with our partners. When the financial side of innovation finally makes sense for contractors, adoption happens fast. And they're proving it every day.

Contractors spend up to $1.5 million per excavator, making fleet replacement for autonomous equipment prohibitively expensive for most operations. Construction automation has struggled because of this barrier—until the economics became compelling enough to change the industry.

I’ve been studying robotics for about a decade now during my time at @8vc — from narrow automation to embodied intelligence. We finally put pen to paper on where to build: start with domain-grounded systems, tight morphology-data loops, and clear paths to usefulness.

On the most recent episode of "What's Your Problem" from @pushkinpods, our CEO @bsofman sits down with @jacobgoldstein to explain why bringing automation to construction is now achievable, and why excavators are the perfect place to start: https://t.co/szLV5oF3lJ

But unlike with freeways and city streets, the hardest part isn't safety—It's the incredible versatility. Operators do things you wouldn't believe. The long tail of edge cases is wild. But crack it, and you unlock building at the speed the country actually needs.

Waymo proved autonomous technology works at scale. And after millions of driverless miles, the system is five times safer than vehicles driven by humans. Now, the same breakthroughs that made Waymo possible are coming to construction.

"For every skilled person entering construction, seven are leaving." America needs to build data centers, housing, energy infrastructure NOW. But the bottleneck isn't money or materials—it's the number of humans who know how to run the machines. So what happens next? 🧵

Hear the zero to one story behind our advanced autonomy from Co-Founder and CEO @bsofman on stage at @foxglove Actuate 2025, tomorrow at 11:15am. And if you see anyone from our team roaming the floor in a @BedrockRobotics t-shirt, come say hi!