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Bedrock Brings Autonomous Driving to Construction

Bloomberg Technology Monday 17 August 2026, 18:34 UTC 1 min read
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Bedrock Robotics is bringing autonomous driving technology to construction sites, retrofitting excavators and other heavy machinery with cameras, LiDAR, Nvidia-powered compute and its own software. CEO Boris Sofman joins Bloomberg to discuss the company’s first paid commercial deployments, how autonomous equipment could address a growing shortage of skilled operators, and why demand for data centers and other infrastructure is creating an opportunity to use AI to help America build faster....

Bedrock Robotics is bringing autonomous driving technology to construction sites, retrofitting excavators and other heavy machinery with cameras, LiDAR, Nvidia-powered compute and its own software. CEO Boris Sofman joins Bloomberg to discuss the company’s first paid commercial deployments, how autonomous equipment could address a growing shortage of skilled operators, and why demand for data centers and other infrastructure is creating an opportunity to use AI to help America build faster. He joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)
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