Bedrock Robotics is running excavators with no operator in the cab on commercial construction sites. The machines are doing paid earthwork in Texas and Nevada. One works on a Nevada water treatment plant with Sundt Construction. Another handles a large earthwork job in Texas with Champion Site Prep. A third project with Zachry Construction covers 1.2 million cubic yards of sitework. The deployments follow a year of testing with human supervisors on board. Bedrock says its sensor and computing kit installs on a machine in a day. A remote monitor can step in when a machine gets stuck, which the company calls rare. Machines stop automatically when a person or object comes too close. The current fleet is new equipment fitted by Bedrock, not contractors' own machines.
What changed
The excavators ran for a year on active sites with human supervision on board.
What it unlocks
Running commercial earthmoving shifts with no operator in the excavator cab.
- 1.2M cubic yards on Zachry project
- tens of thousands of training hours
- install in one day
What you need to act on it
- a construction contract with Bedrock Robotics
- sites in Texas or Nevada
- remote fleet monitoring staff
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