Accelerating the Work that Builds Our World
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Today we’re announcing a $600M Series C, co-led by @CapitalG and @emergencecap, to bring fully autonomous machines to more job sites across the U.S.
We want autonomous equipment to become beautifully unremarkable, as ordinary on a job site as GPS or grade control.
Autonomy on a job site has to hold up in dirt, dust, and conditions that change by the hour—a very different problem from driving a mapped street. @kevinmpeterson1 joined @gracegongGG to talk about what carries over from his years at @Waymo and @CaterpillarInc, what doesn’t, and how both shape the way we think about putting autonomy on heavy equipment.
Listen to my conversation with @kevinmpeterson1 of @BedrockRobotics on
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#Robotics #PhysicalAI #AutonomousSystems #ConstructionTech #ArtificialIntelligence
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Bedrock Robotics retweeted
Nigh? How about here? Here's one of our robots running for hours in production. Look at the sawtooth on the right of the cut - lab models don't get quality like that. Like coding, you need the harness, data, evals.
ps. @ahmedshubber25 you're right. Podcast post:meat ratio too low. Will try to keep our production vids flowing ;)
With our $600M Series C, we’re scaling our autonomous systems to more job sites across the country. We’re hiring engineers and field operations pros across a variety of disciplines to make it happen.
Check out our open roles and apply today: bedrockrobotics.com/careers
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A machine following a pre-set path can’t account for a site that looks different every morning. @Georgian_io’s new blog on why they invested in our Series C gets at the difference between automation and physical AI, and why excavation is the place to start.
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We’re co-hosting CoRL After Dark with @NVIDIARobotics in Austin.
Robot learning gets harder when the environment refuses to hold still, and a job site never does. Come talk end-to-end models on excavators in the field: what generalizes, what breaks, and what we’re still working out.
Tuesday, November 10 at 8:30pm. Registration below.
“The hardware was never the hard part.” @kevinspain of @emergencecap on a decade of watching construction robotics, and why they co-led our Series C.
Bedrock Robotics retweeted
How will autonomous vehicles impact jobs? Whether in construction or mobility, automation has incredible potential to create new employment opportunities. Listen to Ep2 of Nuro’s Unsupervised podcast featuring @BedrockRobotics for more: unsupervised.buzzsprout.com/
#unsupervisedpodcast #selfdriving #autonomousvehicles
@CapitalG’s Derek Zanutto and Conner Lovely say the question when they first invested wasn’t whether fully autonomous heavy equipment would run on a live job site, only how soon. Most of the industry said it would take years. Bedrock proved them wrong.
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Their post on co-leading our Series C: capitalg.com/insights/doubli…
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Bedrock Robotics retweeted
Congrats Boris Sofman @bsofman and the @BedrockRobotics team on their $600M Series C fundraise!
I recently had Boris on the Main Branch podcast and chatted with him about their approach to automating construction, starting with excavators. Bedrock went from zero to fully autonomous excavators in record time.
Prior to Bedrock, Boris led autonomous trucking at Waymo. He shared with me what are some learnings that carried over from his prior experience and what is unique about automating a 100,000+ pound machine that manipulates the environment it’s in (e.g. digging up dirt from the ground).
Full episode below 👇
Bedrock Robotics retweeted
Bedrock Robotics CEO @bsofman explains how self-driving excavators could boost construction productivity by 80% while reducing workplace injuries and deaths:
"Most contractors have a hard time filling even one shift, much less going two shifts or three shifts."
"With these systems, you’ll soon be able to fuel up a machine at the end of the day and let it go an extra shift overnight, and now you’ve boosted your productivity by oftentimes 60, 70, 80%."
"It also happens to be the most dangerous profession. Owners oftentimes won’t even allow the contractors to run at night. When you have systems that operate at superhuman levels of safety, you can very comfortably do the extra shift overnight."
"You can start compressing projects by many months."
@BedrockRobotics
Today we’re announcing a $600M Series C, co-led by @CapitalG and @emergencecap, to bring fully autonomous machines to more job sites across the U.S.
We want autonomous equipment to become beautifully unremarkable, as ordinary on a job site as GPS or grade control.
Bedrock Robotics retweeted
It’s a beautiful day to be building America. @BedrockRobotics
Today we’re announcing a $600M Series C, co-led by @CapitalG and @emergencecap, to bring fully autonomous machines to more job sites across the U.S.
We want autonomous equipment to become beautifully unremarkable, as ordinary on a job site as GPS or grade control.
Bedrock Robotics retweeted
From the white boards in our office to this moment in < 3 years. Incredible execution from this team.
Bedrock Robotics retweeted
To a future of abundance!
Today we’re announcing a $600M Series C, co-led by @CapitalG and @emergencecap, to bring fully autonomous machines to more job sites across the U.S.
We want autonomous equipment to become beautifully unremarkable, as ordinary on a job site as GPS or grade control.