Bedrock Robotics Launches with $80M to Retrofit Heavy Equipment with Autonomy

• Bedrock Robotics has exited stealth with $80 million in funding to automate existing construction machinery using same-day hardware and software upgrades.
• The company’s technology is live on excavators in Arizona, Texas, and Arkansas, targeting a 2026 launch for operator-less deployments.

Bedrock Robotics, founded by former leaders from Waymo and Segment, has launched publicly with $80 million in Seed and Series A funding. Rather than selling new autonomous machines, Bedrock retrofits customers' current heavy equipment with reversible kits that enable full autonomy in a single day. The systems are already running in the field on excavators across several states.

The company aims to help close the growing labor gap in U.S. construction, driven by a surge in manufacturing investment and a looming wave of retirements. Bedrock says its technology enables builders to increase project speed, safety, and cost efficiency by allowing for continuous operation and real-time site tracking. COO Laurent Hautefeuille, formerly of Uber Freight, has joined to scale operations.

"The construction industry is facing so much pressure with the soaring demand for new factories and data centers, the housing crisis, and the mandate for re-industrialization in the U.S.," said Boris Sofman, CEO and co-founder of Bedrock Robotics, in an official press release. "The only way to rise to the occasion is by empowering construction teams with advanced automation they can trust. Together with our partners in the industry, we're ushering in a new era where autonomy and intelligence supercharge building, which will benefit both contractors and society."

Backers include 8VC, Eclipse, NVIDIA’s NVentures, and others. Bedrock’s early partners, such as Sundt Construction and firms in Texas, are testing the system and integrating it into live workflows. Bedrock is focused on commercialization ahead of its planned 2026 rollout of fully autonomous deployments.

🌀 Tom’s Take:

Bedrock Robotics has taken a savvy approach to ushering in automation in the construction industry. Rather than asking the industry to invest in brand new equipment and processes, it is meeting it where it is today to tack it on. This should allow for quicker deployment of innovative measures, which allow construction firms to start to develop business cases to more easily invest in autonomous-first equipment in the near future.

Source: PR Newswire / Bedrock Robotics