Ex-waymo Engineers Launch Bedrock Robotics With $80m To Automate Construction

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8:39 AM PDT · July 16, 2025

Bedrock Robotics, an autonomous conveyance exertion startup founded by veterans of Waymo and Segment, has been operating softly for much than a year. Now, it’s breaking screen pinch an $80 cardinal backing information from investors Eclipse and 8VC.

Bedrock Robotics is focused connected processing a self-driving kit that tin beryllium retrofitted to building and different worksite vehicles, according to nan company. The announcement confirms immoderate of TechCrunch’s reporting successful May. Bedrock is “upgrading existing fleets pinch sensors, compute, and intelligence that understands task goals, adapts to changing conditions, and executes activity astir nan clock,” according to a blog station written by co-founder and CEO Boris Sofman.

Sofman antecedently led Waymo’s now shuttered self-driving trucks program. But he’s possibly champion known for his domiciled arsenic co-founder and CEO of Anki Robotics, which made nan celebrated Cozmo user robot, and unopen down successful 2019. Other co-founders see Waymo veterans Kevin Petersen, who is now CTO, Ajay Gummalla, who is simply a VP of engineering, and Tom Eliaz, who antecedently worked astatine Segment and Twilio, is besides a VP of engineering.

The institution could not beryllium reached for comment. TechCrunch will update this article pinch caller specifications erstwhile Bedrock responds.

Bedrock is nan latest institution to steer engineers who are adept astatine robotics, autonomy, and AI toward nan off-road environment. Several autonomous conveyance startups person popped up successful caller years pinch an purpose to use their self-driving systems to off-road environments for illustration construction, mining, business sites, and moreover defense.

Earlier this week, Pronto, a San Francisco-based startup that has developed a self-driving strategy designed for haulage trucks and different off-road vehicles utilized astatine building and mining sites, acquired competitor SafeAI. Other startups that play successful nan fragmented and wide assemblage of off-road autonomy see Kodiak Robotics, Polymath Robotics, Seattle-based Overland AI, New Brunswick, Canada-based Potential, and much established companies for illustration Forterra.

Bedrock said it’s focused connected building sites and is testing successful Arkansas, Arizona, Texas, and California pinch 5 corporations: Sundt Construction, Zachry Construction Corporation, Champion Site Prep Inc., and Capitol Aggregates Inc.

Kirsten Korosec is simply a newsman and editor who has covered nan early of proscription from EVs and autonomous vehicles to municipality aerial mobility and in-car tech for much than a decade. She is presently nan proscription editor astatine TechCrunch and co-host of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast. She is besides co-founder and co-host of nan podcast, “The Autonocast.” She antecedently wrote for Fortune, The Verge, Bloomberg, MIT Technology Review and CBS Interactive.