Throughout history, breakthrough technologies have unlocked new eras of human progress. The steam engine didn't just power factories, it transformed how we built cities, moved goods, and connected continents. The assembly line didn't just make cars affordable, it expanded consumer access to life-enhancing products and reshaped the American economy. The internet didn't just connect computers, it revolutionized how we work, learn, and innovate.

Today, we stand at another inflection point. Advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) have revolutionized chatbots and digital interfaces, but they only account for a small fraction of the impact we can make. Physical industries contribute 75% of the global GDP, and sectors like transportation, infrastructure, and construction are only just beginning to be transformed by the same machine learning breakthroughs. There’s tremendous untapped opportunity to transform how we build and create—not just online, but in the real world.

America needs to build faster than ever before. With recent investments in reshoring, we need new factories for domestic manufacturing. We need new data centers and energy infrastructure to power the AI revolution. And we need millions of housing units to solve our country’s housing crisis. Demand for development has never been higher.

But we have a supply problem that's choking our economic future. More than 500,000 open construction jobs sit unfilled today, and 40% of construction workers are set to retire in the next decade. Critical infrastructure sits stalled while costs skyrocket, projects that should take months stretch into years, and some amazing ideas never make it past the planning phase.

This isn't just a construction problem—it's a fundamental constraint on economic growth. When societies can't build fast enough to meet demand, we limit what's possible for innovation, communities, and human progress everywhere.

At Waymo, much of the Bedrock team and I spent years teaching robo-taxis and trucks to safely navigate unpredictable city streets alongside humans. We helped put the first fully autonomous vehicles on public roads—systems that today operate across 4 cities, have accumulated over 70M driverless miles, and operate at 5X the safety of humans. Our team also brings experience scaling high-scale cloud systems and operational expertise from growing companies like Uber Freight to $5B in revenue.

One breakthrough that enabled Waymo's impressive scale was shifting from traditional robotics approaches to a dominantly ML and data-driven system. This approach solved San Francisco's diverse and nuanced driving scenarios while demonstrating strong generalization across cities, environments, and platforms—from the Waymo trucking program to the first driverless freeway launch for Waymo’s rideshare vehicles. This represents a fundamental shift from 25 years of traditional autonomy development, and one that our founding team saw the generational opportunity to apply to specialized heavy machines.

Construction equipment faces the same challenge: operating safely and precisely in unpredictable environments, across many types of complex tasks. Excavators, bulldozers, and loaders must understand site terrain, adapt to changing conditions, and execute intricate maneuvers with tons of steel. The difference is these machines don't just navigate the world—they sculpt it with centimeter-level precision. The same ML approaches that enabled superhuman driving are critical for truly competent and scalable construction systems.

That's why we founded Bedrock Robotics: to bring state-of-the-art autonomous systems to construction, an industry that desperately needs it, and to do it right.

Our Bedrock Operator transforms existing construction equipment into autonomous machines that work with superhuman precision and safety. We're not building new equipment from scratch; we're upgrading existing fleets with sensors, compute, and intelligence that understands project goals, adapts to changing conditions, and executes work around the clock.

Right now, we have machines operating on our own test sites and with four construction partners across California, Arizona, Texas, and Arkansas. Innovative companies like Sundt Construction are committed to integrating this technology into their operations because they see how it unlocks new levels of productivity—the flexibility to work ten hours a day or 24/7, the ability to tackle jobs they’d otherwise have to turn down, and the consistency and safety that autonomous systems deliver. In just one year, we've gained validation from contractors, operators, and industry leaders who can all see the potential.

This is about more than just making construction more efficient. We're working toward a future where ambitious teams can tackle projects that seem impossible today. Where housing becomes more affordable because we can build faster and more predictably. Where critical infrastructure projects finish on schedule because heavy machines can work continuously— utilizing expensive equipment around the clock while maintaining the highest safety standards.

We're building toward a world where construction truly never stops—where the pace of building matches the pace of human ambition. Where the entire economy expands, as this new productivity and flexibility boost every industry.

Today marks our public launch, backed by $80 million from incredible investors like Eclipse and 8VC who share our vision. But we're just getting started.

We’re expanding our team with exceptional engineers, operations experts, and industry veterans who want to solve one of America's biggest challenges and unlock a new era of building and growth. We're deepening partnerships with forward-thinking contractors who see the potential of autonomous construction. And we're scaling our solutions to meet the massive demand we're seeing across the industry.

The same forces that drove previous industrial revolutions—the need for speed, scale, and capability beyond human limits—are driving this transformation. We have the technology to make this new chapter unfold safely, intelligently, and in close collaboration with the skilled professionals who build our world. The future of our built world begins today, and we’re excited by our opportunity to help enable it.

Want our technology on your job site? Get in touch if you're ready to transform how your team builds: info@bedrockrobotics.com

And if algorithms and steel-toed boots sound like your kind of workplace, we're hiring.