Bedrock Robotics: Helping to Define the Future of AI

Research suggests the construction industry needs nearly 800,000 workers over the next two years to keep up with demand. Retirements are set to further widen the labour gap and project backlogs climbed to more than eight months as of December 2025.

As a result, contractors are exploring Bedrock Robotics' autonomy systems across a range of applications spanning port infrastructure, industrial facilities, data centres and large-scale earthmoving operations across multiple states.

Bedrock recently secured US$270 million in a Series B funding round co-led by CapitalG and the Valor Atreides AI Fund, accelerating its mission to transform how general contractors build.

Boris Sofman, Co-Founder and CEO of Bedrock Robotics, says: "The construction industry is being asked to build more than it can deliver. Contractors are pulled across competing priorities with the same limited workforce and equipment.

"This funding helps us scale our development and deployments as we mature autonomy capabilities and the tools for contractors to leverage them. It's a first step toward a future where entire fleets operate as coordinated systems, fundamentally changing how modern contractors plan, staff and execute work."

Tech that complements crews

Autonomy systems refer to technology that enables machines to operate with limited direct human control. In construction, this includes supervised autonomy systems for mass excavation and other large-scale operations.

Contractors use these systems to coordinate fleets, keep machines running longer and reduce idle time. The goal is not just one autonomous machine, but coordinated systems across an entire fleet.

Bedrock positions its technology as a complement to crews. By deploying autonomy capabilities and tools for contractors, the company supports contractors as they manage labour constraints and equipment demands.

The focus remains on empowering the workforce rather than replacing it, with systems that allow contractors to leverage equipment and people more effectively across projects that do not wait.

Real-world applications

On a manufacturing campus in central Texas, Champion Site Prep uses the Bedrock Operator to explore how autonomous systems complement the crews they have today.

The Bedrock Operator is the platform through which contractors deploy and supervise autonomy systems across machines and sites.

Trey Taparauskas, President and CEO at Champion Site Prep, says: "The speed and scale of what's coming into this region is unlike anything we've seen before – automotive, aerospace, AI infrastructure – and these projects don't wait.

"What Bedrock is building will multiply what our crews are capable of. It's not just about one autonomous machine; it's the potential to rethink how we coordinate our entire fleet, keep machines running longer, reduce idle time and improve safety and work zone awareness. That frees up our best people to supervise and strategize so we can take on even more."

In this context, work zone awareness refers to the ability of machines and crews to operate with a clear understanding of their surroundings on a construction site. By improving safety and awareness, contractors aim to reduce risk while maintaining productivity across large-scale earthmoving operations.

The central Texas deployment demonstrates how autonomy systems operate in a live environment across a 130-acre manufacturing facility. Bedrock publicly launches in July 2025 with US$80m raised through Seed and Series A rounds, and by November successfully deploys a large-scale supervised autonomy system for mass excavation across this site. Mass excavation involves moving large volumes of earth to prepare a site for infrastructure, industrial facilities or data centres.

Contractors across port infrastructure, industrial facilities and AI infrastructure are exploring similar applications. 

Unlocking construction velocity

Bedrock's latest funding round also received support from Xora, 8VC, Eclipse, Emergence Capital, Perry Creek Capital, NVentures (NVIDIA's venture capital arm), Tishman Speyer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Georgian, Incharge Capital, C4 Ventures and others.

The firm's total funding now stands at more than US$350m, leaving it well placed to help more contractors deploy individual autonomous machines and orchestrate fully-connected fleets that reshape productivity and safety. 

Derek Zanutto, General Partner at CapitalG, says: "Hundreds of billions of dollars are flowing into construction, but the workforce simply isn't there to meet the moment. Every major hyperscaler and developer is grappling with how to compress project schedules when labour constraints keep pushing them out.

"Bedrock's technology is built on world-class autonomy expertise and we believe it will unlock the construction velocity this moment requires."

Bedrock aims to achieve its first completely autonomous excavator deployments with customers in 2026, representing a significant advancement in autonomous technology for such sophisticated, multi-jointed machinery.

Antonio Gracias, Founder, CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Valor Equity Partners, adds: "What stands out about Bedrock is execution – delivering milestone after milestone with precision and capital efficiency that's uncommon in this space.

"The companies defining the future of AI, energy and advanced manufacturing all share a common need: they have to build faster than ever before. We're confident Bedrock is the team to make that possible."