Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics with $80M to automate construction

Bedrock Robototu, Waymo and segment veterans, established by the autonomous vehicle technology, work quietly for more than a year. Now it is an arrest of investors and covering $ 80 million from 8VC.

Bedrock is aimed at developing a self-driving set that can withdraw back to robotechnical construction and other business vehicles, According to the company. Confirms part of the announcement TechCrunch’s report In May. Bedrock, “Fighting project goals, adapt to changing conditions and improves existing files with sensor, calculation and intelligence and performs around the clock” According to a blog post written by a co-founder and CEO Boris Sofman.

Sofman Previously LED Waymo’s self-controlled trucks program now. However, perhaps the famous Jozmo closed the consumer robot and Ajay Gummalla, Ajay Gummalla, Ajay Gummalla, Ajay Gummalla, who has an opposite chairman and CEO in another co-founded in 2019, is a VP engineering.

The company could not get for comments. TechCrunch will update this article with new details from the bed.

Bedrock, Robotics, Autonomy and AI are the latest company in robotics, autonomy and capable engineers in the AI. In recent years, several autonomous vehicles beginnings appeared in order to apply their self-driving systems the roadside environmentAs construction, mining, industrial sites and even defenses.

This week, a San Francisco-based starting Pronto, which develops a self-driving system, designed for trucks and other of-road vehicles used in construction and mining areas, Acquired opponent Safeai. Other beginnings are kodiak robotics, polymath robotics, Seattle-based, which are broken and playing in the wide range of off-road autonomy Overland aiNew Brunswick, Canadian-based Potentialand as more established companies.

Bedrock, Construction sites and testing in Test in Arizona, Texas and California, Arizona, Construction, Zachry Construction Corporation, Champion Site Prep Inc and Capitol Aggregates Inc.