Bedrock Robotics: Accelerating Autonomous Construction

Bedrock Robotics is on a mission to empower the construction industry. Through its autonomous technology, it is helping to address the pain points which have emerged across the sector.

Bridging the labour gap

The industry needs nearly 800,000 workers over the next two years to keep up with demand, with retirements further widening the labour gap. Project backlogs climbed to more than eight months as of December 2025.

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

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."

Real-world applications in central Texas

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

"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," adds Trey Taparauskas, President and CEO at Champion Site Prep.

"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."

Unlock the construction velocity

With this mandate, it has secured further support, having raised US$270m in Series B funding co-led by CapitalG and the Valor Atreides AI Fund, with participation 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.

This brings Bedrock's total funding to more than US$350m. The funding will accelerate Bedrock's mission to transform how general contractors build, from deploying individual autonomous machines to orchestrating fully connected fleets that reshape productivity and safety.

Bedrock's latest funding round comes after a phase of significant expansion. The company publicly launched in July 2025 with US$80m raised through Seed and Series A rounds, and by November had successfully deployed a large-scale supervised autonomy system for mass excavation across a 130-acre manufacturing facility.

"Hundreds of billions of dollars are flowing into construction, but the workforce simply isn't there to meet the moment," says Derek Zanutto, General Partner at CapitalG.

"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."

Strategic leadership appointments

Alongside the new capital, Bedrock has strengthened its leadership with strategic appointments.

Vincent Gonguet was brought on as Head of Evaluation, bringing experience from his previous role leading AI safety and alignment for Meta's Llama models. John Chu joined as Head of People, coming from Waymo where he held the same position and managed a 400% increase in engineering headcount during the company's global expansion.

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.

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

"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."