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Mastering an excavator takes five years or more, and excavators account for roughly 25% of a contractor's fleet. That combination has been the staffing bottleneck construction firms cannot engineer around.
Bedrock Robotics, founded in San Francisco two years ago, is now running autonomous excavators with no operator in the cab on active commercial job sites in Texas and Nevada.
The machines are doing real paid earthwork: one unit is on a Nevada water treatment facility with Sundt Construction, another is on a multimillion-cubic-yard earthwork project in Texas with Champion Site Prep, and a third is on a 1.2 million-cubic-yard civil sitework project with Zachry Construction Corporation.
Work centers on rough earthmoving, specifically clearing, cut-and-fill operations, and foundation prep, where repeatable production cycles are most amenable to automation.
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