Bedrock’s excavators use cameras, LiDAR and onboard computing to detect people, vehicles and potential hazards around the machine. The goal is to make autonomous equipment safer than manually operated machinery.

Bedrock deliberately started with one of construction’s hardest machines to master. Its team believes that solving autonomy for excavators will make expanding into other heavy equipment much easier.

Construction’s most experienced operators are approaching retirement, but too few people are entering the industry to replace them. Autonomous machinery could help contractors close that growing workforce gap.

Nobody is in the cab and nobody on site is controlling it. Bedrock’s autonomous excavators are now carrying out real work on live commercial construction sites.

Construction needs more skilled machine operators just as a major retirement wave approaches. So who will operate the equipment needed to build America’s next generation of infrastructure?

AI is making individuals faster. It isn't making companies better yet.

Twenty years ago, half a building's cost was labor and half was material. That's not true anymore.

Some construction tech startups aren't solving your problem. They're inventing one and selling it back to you. That's Klas Berghede's blunt read on where some private equity-backed contech bets are headed, chasing a home run instead of a real, felt problem.