Bedrock Robotics
Waymo veterans turning excavators into fully autonomous construction machines
Scaleup · Pilot · Robotics leader · San Francisco, California, United States · Founded 2024 · bedrockrobotics.com
Included as autonomous construction machinery, not a humanoid or general-purpose robot maker.
Profile
Bedrock Robotics is not a humanoid company: it makes autonomous construction equipment. Its Bedrock Operator kit adds sensors, compute and a machine-learning driver to excavators. In Aug 2026 it began fully operator-free digging on live sites in Texas and Nevada with contractors such as Sundt, Zachry and Champion Site Prep. It is led by former Waymo engineers and raised $270M at a $1.75B valuation in Feb 2026.
People
- Boris Sofman FounderCo-founder and Chief Executive Officer@bsofmanHandle linked from company X account
- Kevin Peterson FounderCo-founder and Chief Technology Officer@kevinmpeterson1Role confirmed in their X bio
- Tom Eliaz FounderCo-founder and Vice President, Engineering
- Ajay Gummalla FounderCo-founder and Vice President, Engineering
As of . X handles are shown only when we could confirm they belong to the person.
Flagship products
- Bedrock Operator Autonomous machines
Sensor, compute and AI kit that lets an excavator dig with no one in the cab; dozers and loaders planned
Funding and valuation
Latest round
$270M
Series B · Feb 4, 2026
Led by CapitalG, Valor Atreides AI Fund
Also Xora, 8VC, Eclipse, Emergence Capital, Perry Creek Capital, NVentures (NVIDIA), Tishman Speyer, MIT, Georgian, Incharge Capital, C4 Ventures.
Total raised
about $350M
As of Feb 4, 2026
More than $350M in total, including $80M seed and Series A in 2025
Valuation
$1.75B
valuation at Series B · Feb 4, 2026
Hiring signals
- Open roles
- 44all roles
- Top location
- San Francisco · 68%30 of 44 roles
- Top role area
- Quality & test8 roles · 20% of 41 engineering & ops
Where the roles are · share of 44 open roles (all roles)
- San Francisco, California, US68%30 roles
- New York, US18%8 roles
- Remote, US9%4 roles
- Lockhart, Texas, US5%2 roles
Locations are where the posting says the job is based, not where the robots are built. A posting that lists several sites is counted once, under the first.
Role mix · 41 engineering & ops roles
Show 4 more areas
Roles are sorted into a fixed list of areas by job title. Percentages are of engineering & ops roles. The other 3 open roles (finance, HR, legal, sales, facilities and similar) are in the total but not shown here.
Notable postings
- JobSenior role in Quality & test, one of the company's largest hiring areasHead of Validation and Systems EngineeringSan Francisco, California, US
- JobSenior role in Software & infrastructure, one of the company's largest hiring areasTechnical Program Manager, Cloud Infra/Data ProgramsNew York, US
- JobTypical role in AI & foundation models, one of the company's largest hiring areasControls and Robot Learning EngineerSan Francisco, California, US
- JobTypical role in Perception & vision, one of the company's largest hiring areasSoftware Engineer, State Estimation & LocalizationSan Francisco, California, US
- JobSenior role in Safety & certification, one of the company's largest hiring areasSenior Functional Safety Engineer (Hardware)San Francisco, California, US
As of . Scope: all roles. Counts are our reading of public job postings, not company statements.
Scope note All open Bedrock Robotics postings, including non-engineering roles.
Trademarks
3 names filed in the US since 2025 · last checked .
- BEDROCK Filed, awaiting examinerProviding online non-downloadable machine learning software for enabling computers to learn.
Likely use (our read): BEDROCK (Oct 9, 2026): company-name filing
- BEDROCK OPERATOR SuspendedRetrofit hardware and software for converting heavy machinery into autonomous heavy machinery.
- Logo (no words) Filed, awaiting examinerProviding online non-downloadable machine learning software for enabling computers to learn.
Source: USPTO Trademark Search, matched on the company’s legal names. Rechecked on the 1st and 15th of each month. A filing shows intent to use a name in the US, not a launched product.
Competitors
Companies with overlapping products. Direct = same customers and same job; Adjacent = overlapping technology or market, different focus.
Gravis Robotics
Direct competitorBoth sell autonomy kits that retrofit existing excavators: Gravis Robotics sells the Gravis Rack, an autonomy kit fitted to existing excavators of many brands, while Bedrock Robotics retrofits excavators with autonomy kits aimed at operator-free operation.
TerraFirma
Adjacent competitorBoth retrofit construction machines with autonomy: TerraFirma retrofits construction machines and runs them itself as a contractor rather than selling the machines, while Bedrock Robotics retrofits excavators with autonomy kits aimed at operator-free operation.
Recent news
- — First fully autonomous excavator deployments on live U.S. infrastructure sites GlobeNewswire
- — Raises $270M Series B at a $1.75B valuation PR Newswire
Sources
- Bedrock Robotics Raises $270 Million in Series B Funding to Accelerate the Future of Autonomous Construction (PR Newswire) (Feb 4, 2026)
- Bedrock Robotics Launches First Fully Autonomous Excavator Deployments on Critical U.S. Infrastructure Projects (GlobeNewswire) (Aug 17, 2026)
- Bedrock Robotics' first operator-free excavator deployments take off (The Robot Report) (Aug 26, 2026)
- Bedrock Robotics: about and team (Oct 8, 2026)
- Kevin Peterson: Co-Founder and CTO at Bedrock Robotics (EmbodyVC) (Oct 8, 2026)
Confidence: high.