Insider Brief
- Bedrock Robotics said it is running the construction industry’s largest known supervised autonomy deployment, moving more than 65,000 cubic yards on a 130-acre manufacturing site with autonomous excavators loading human-operated dump trucks in standard workflows.
- The company has expanded its autonomous systems across excavators from 20 to 80 tons and recently completed autonomous excavation at Proto-Town in Central Texas, marking its second active deployment as it targets fully autonomous operations in 2026.
- Bedrock is growing its partner ecosystem with contractors including Austin Bridge & Road, Maverick Constructors and Haydon Companies, aiming to address skilled-labor shortages and scale autonomy across commercial, industrial and heavy-civil projects.
PRESS RELEASE — Bedrock Robotics announced it has been conducting the construction industry’s largest-known supervised autonomy deployment for mass excavation, partnering with Sundt Construction on site preparation for a 130-acre domestic manufacturing facility. On just this project alone, Bedrock’s autonomous systems have so far moved over 65,000 cubic yards by loading human-operated articulating dump trucks with the same workflow used in manual operations — a seamless integration that demonstrates a leap forward in commercial autonomous construction. The company’s technology is now installed across multiple excavator models ranging from 20-ton to 80-ton machines, adapting its systems from compact units to large-scale earthmovers.
“The biggest challenge we face isn’t just finding operators — it’s keeping experienced ones engaged when we need them for months of repetitive earthmoving in remote locations,” said Dan Green, Project Manager at Sundt Construction. “Our best operators aren’t interested in the monotony of mass excavation work. With Bedrock’s technology handling the repetitive truck loading that goes on day after day, our skilled workforce can focus on more specialized and creative problems where their expertise is critical to success.”
In parallel, Bedrock has successfully completed autonomous excavation for a customer’s prototyping facility at Proto-Town, a Central Texas hub designed to help hardware startups manufacture, test, and scale technologies that tackle real-world challenges. This achievement marks Bedrock’s second active site deployment as it continues to expand supervised autonomy testing on its path to fully autonomous operations in 2026.
Bedrock continues to expand its network of industry collaborators, notably welcoming Austin Bridge & Road, Maverick Constructors, and Haydon Companies to its partnership program. These companies join an existing partner ecosystem that includes Zachry Construction, Sundt Construction, Champion Site Prep, and Capitol Aggregates. Bedrock’s partners help to accelerate the adoption of autonomy across commercial, industrial, and heavy civil applications, while ensuring the technology is developed with visibility into the full spectrum of construction scenarios that contractors face daily.
“Safety is at the heart of all we do, and technology has the potential to further enhance the safe performance of work at our job sites,” said Bill Heathcott, Executive Vice President, Austin Bridge & Road. “Our partnership with Bedrock Robotics has opened the door to autonomous equipment, a game-changer in next-level worker protection as well as increased efficiency and precision. Together, we’re exploring how this innovation could change construction for the better, help to solve critical skilled-labor shortages, and ultimately allow our crews to get more done.”
“Construction faces exploding demand from data centers, domestic manufacturing, and energy projects, at a time when the availability of skilled operators continues to decline,” said Boris Sofman, co-founder and CEO of Bedrock Robotics. “Developing our technology on active job sites with experienced contractors and their crews means we’re addressing the exact challenges that limit project capacity today, while ensuring we do it in a way that is intuitive and non-disruptive to our partners and customers. This collaborative approach helps us build technology that enables contractors to take on more projects and deliver them successfully.”
To learn more about Bedrock Robotics, visit www.bedrockrobotics.com.
