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Building Tomorrow: How Bedrock Robotics is Changing the Construction Industry

The Robot Report Podcast · 20 Mar 2026 · 1h 13m

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Boris Sofman, co-founder and CEO of Bedrock Robotics, explains how his company is developing autonomy technologies for heavy construction machinery like excavators and bulldozers, aiming for fully operatorless deployment. Drawing on his experience at Waymo, Sofman details the technical and safety challenges of automating physical work, the massive labor shortage driving market demand, and the strategic advantage of retrofitting existing fleets over building new OEM vehicles. He outlines Bedrock's recent $350 million raise and their immediate goal of transitioning from supervised autonomy to the first commercial driverless deployments later this year.

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early-stage companies

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Bedrock Robotics, Waymo, Inbot, Hexagon Robotics, Humanoid, Enchanted Tools, Universal Robots, Scale AI, Sharpa, Vention, Sodexo, Bright Pick, Caterpillar, John Deere, NVIDIA, Meta, O Logic, SKA Robotics
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Autobot, Grid Picker

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