Bedrock Robotics has closed a $600M Series C to expand deployment of its autonomous excavators. The company says excavators using its system have done paid work on live job sites without anyone at the controls since mid-August.
Bedrock Robotics said CapitalG and Emergence Capital co-led the funding round, which values the company at $4.1bn after the investment. The capital will support a wider rollout to customers and expand field support for deployed equipment.
Former Waymo engineers founded Bedrock in 2024. It retrofits existing heavy equipment with its autonomy system, starting with excavators.
For contractors, that offers a way to introduce autonomy into existing fleets and site workflows. Customer Haydon is using the system for earthwork at a remote Texas site and plans to test trench work and larger machines.
The completed funding round gives Bedrock committed capital to expand deployment rather than just demonstrate its technology.
Paid work on active sites provides a commercial signal, but the report does not establish the economics of each deployment.
For contractors assessing adoption, repeatable performance across sites remains a question that funding and reported paid work alone do not answer.
Written automatically by the Made in 10 Newsroom from the source above.
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