The self-driving future grabs a giant shovel
Bedrock Robotics, founded by former Waymo engineers, has raised a $600M Series C at a $4.1B valuation to deploy autonomous excavators on construction sites, bringing its total funding since 2024 to nearly $1B. Together with Gravis Robotics' $200M and Eka Robotics' $150M, autonomous-excavator startups have raised $950M in ten weeks. It matters because construction faces a shortage of skilled operators — a skill Bedrock says takes five years or more to master — and paid work on live sites suggests the machines are moving from demos to real jobs.
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- The Rundown AI2026-10-29 14:30