Bedrock Robotics raised a $600M Series C, co-led by CapitalG and Emergence Capital, two months after deploying fully autonomous excavators on live sites. The company has now raised nearly $1B since its 2024 founding and has six customers with deployments underway.
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Funding: $600M Series C co-led by CapitalG and Emergence Capital.
Deployments: Six customers have deployments; the autonomy stack retrofits existing excavators.
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SKY-001 beats models on CAD/BIM, 51-125x faster
SKY-001 beats models on CAD/BIM, 51-125x faster, >150-210x cheaper, and higher IOU than tested frontier models. It is introduced as the first Engineering World Model that lets you dream a physical object before building it.
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Speed: 51-125x faster than GPT-6 Astra and every frontier model tested.
Cost: 150-210x cheaper than those models.
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Series C $600M Funding Co-led by CapitalG, EmergenceCap
Series C $600M funding co-led by CapitalG and EmergenceCap to bring fully autonomous machines to more U.S. job sites. Goal is to make autonomous equipment as ordinary on a job site as GPS or grade control.
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Funding: $600M Series C co-led by CapitalG and EmergenceCap
Purpose: bring fully autonomous machines to more job sites across the U.S
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BedrockRobotics $600M Series C funding for autonomous excavators
BedrockRobotics announced $600 million Series C funding to accelerate commercial deployments of fully autonomous excavators that are now performing paid construction work on active U.S. job sites without operators. Major construction firm Haydon plans to use the technology across data centers, advanced manufacturing, water infrastructure and healthcare projects.
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Funding: $600M Series C round for BedrockRobotics.
Deployment: Haydon will deploy autonomous excavators on data centers, advanced manufacturing facilities, water infrastructure and healthcare projects.
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DJI mass rolls out 1280 x 1024 thermal imaging for Mavic drones
DJI is mass rolling out 1280 x 1024 thermal imaging for its Mavic-sized drones. American 640 x 480 imagers face lead times over six months.
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DJI mass rolling out 1280 x 1024 thermal imaging for its Mavic-sized drones
American 640 x 480 imagers are on 6+ mo lead times
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Bedrock Robotics $600M Series C Funding Announcement
Bedrock Robotics announced a $600M Series C round co-led by CapitalG and Emergence Capital. The funding aims to deploy fully autonomous construction machines across U.S. job sites.
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Funding: $600M Series C
Investors: CapitalG and Emergence Capital
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Company announces $600M Series C funding
Company announces a $600M Series C round co-led by CapitalG and emergencecap. The funding aims to expand fully autonomous machines on U.S. job sites.
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Funding: $600M Series C round.
Investors: co-led by CapitalG and emergencecap.
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Waymo staging lot across Lady Bird Lake, cleaning issue
Waymo has a staging lot right across Lady Bird Lake to serve downtown Austin, but keeping vehicles clean remains a challenge. The lot is meant for fast robotaxi dispatch, yet cleaning operations are still problematic.
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Location: Staging lot right across Lady Bird Lake from downtown Austin.
Issue: Keeping vehicles clean remains an operational challenge.
