Bedrock Robotics

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A US company retrofitting excavators and other heavy machinery with self-driving kits.

Bedrock Robotics was founded in San Francisco in May 2024 by three former Waymo leaders and a former Segment engineering lead; CEO Boris Sofman previously led Waymo's self-driving trucks program and had earlier co-founded the consumer robotics company Anki. Rather than build new machines, it retrofits existing excavators and loaders with a kit of lidar, 360-degree cameras, and a compute unit, letting the heavy equipment operate autonomously and easing labor shortages in construction. It came out of stealth in July 2025 with $80 million in funding, then closed a $270 million Series B in February 2026, co-led by CapitalG and the Valor Atreides AI Fund. It is a representative example of autonomous-driving talent moving into physical AI.

ExampleA retrofitted excavator autonomously digs a building's foundation on a job site while a person only supervises remotely.

Related: Autonomous Driving · LiDAR · Physical AI · Autonomous-Driving Talent Moving into Embodied AI · Real-world Deployment
Sources: Bedrock Robotics brings in $80M for construction retrofit kits (The Robot Report)
Bedrock Robotics raises $270M for autonomous machine solution
As of: 2026-02