New robots, new capabilities. Tracking what's coming for the workforce.
Robotics Bedrock Robotics said on August 26 that its autonomous excavators are running on three live jobsites in Texas and Nevada with no operator in the seat. Mastering an excavator typically takes five years, and the tasks the machine has taken over are the first part of those five.
Robotics We covered SoftBank's talks to buy Gravis Robotics on July 28. The answer came back different: not a purchase, an investment. A record $200M Series A for construction robotics, and the first clear look at what Gravis actually sells.
Robotics SoftBank sold its last stake in Boston Dynamics to Hyundai, then opened talks to buy a maker of autonomous excavators — the crowd-pleasing robot cashed out, the money moved to a machine nobody will livestream.
Robotics Unitree's new H2 construction humanoid completed a 3,000 sq ft drywall job on a Shenzhen job site in 9 hours. A three-person crew would have taken three days. The general contractor has already ordered twelve more.