Bedrock Robotics · working robot
Bedrock Operator
autonomous excavator retrofit
A same-day, reversible kit of LiDAR, cameras and computers that turns existing excavators into autonomous machines, from a team of former Waymo leaders. It raised $80M in 2025.
- Price
- —Retrofit kit installed on customers' machines; price not published
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
Its 2025 Sundt project was described as the largest supervised-autonomy excavation deployment at the time.
Real-world use
Moved over 65,000 cubic yards on a 130-acre Sundt site in Arizona in 2025; by August 2026 excavators ran with no operator on three commercial sites in Texas and Nevada.
Timeline
- Released
- Not yet
Maker
Bedrock RoboticsCompanyPublic attention
How much public attention Bedrock Operator (autonomous excavator retrofit) gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- No recent press stories listed yet
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What’s inside
No component details published yet.
- Movement
- Tracks
- How it runs
- Fully autonomous. Does its job with nobody at the controls.
From the maker
Bedrock Operator (autonomous excavator retrofit) is the only machine from Bedrock Robotics in the atlas.
Made, sold and where
No production or sales figures published yet.
- Price
- Not publishedRetrofit kit installed on customers' machines; price not published
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every robot: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. Few robots match closely, so these are the nearest matches. How we choose
| Measure | Bedrock Operator (autonomous excavator retrofit)Bedrock Robotics |  Baubot (later MRS5 and MRS15)Baubot (fischer BAUBOT; formerly Printstones)Same job: construction · Both on tracks · Both on sale or in pilots |
|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2025-07 | 2021 |
| Status | Pilot use | Commercial |
| Height | — | — |
| Weight | — | — |
| Joints | — | — |
| Speed | — | 3.2 km/h |
| Payload | — | 500 kg |
| Battery | — | 8 h |
| Price | — | — |
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