{"id":989926,"date":"2026-02-05T08:32:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989926"},"modified":"2026-02-05T09:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:36:09","slug":"bedrock-an-ai-startup-for-construction-raises-270-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/05\/bedrock-an-ai-startup-for-construction-raises-270-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Bedrock, an AI startup for construction, raises $270 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to autonomous vehicles, companies like Waymo and Tesla that operate fleets of robotaxis come to mind first.<\/p>\n<p>But a new startup is focusing on a different goal: automating multiton excavators and other construction vehicles to speed the building of housing, data centers and more.<\/p>\n<p>Bedrock Robotics plans to announce Wednesday that it has raised $270 million in a new fundraising round, valuing the roughly year-old startup at $1.75 billion. The round was led by CapitalG, an investment arm of Alphabet, Google&#8217;s parent company, and the Valor Atreides AI Fund; other investors included 8VC and the venture arm of Nvidia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to autonomous vehicles, companies like Waymo and Tesla that operate fleets of robotaxis come to mind first. But a new startup is focusing on a different goal: automating multiton excavators and other construction vehicles to speed the building of housing, data centers and more. Bedrock Robotics plans to announce Wednesday that it has raised $270 million in a new fundraising round, valuing the roughly year-old startup at $1.75 billion. The round was led by CapitalG, an investment arm of Alphabet, Google&#8217;s parent company, and the Valor Atreides AI Fund; other investors included 8VC and the venture arm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}