A construction site is hot, dusty, full of shock and vibration, and harsh on any sensor you bolt to a machine. Everything our autonomy system understands about the world has to survive that first. Will Grossman, Georges Goetz, and Joshua Manela on what that takes.

We’re hosting a happy hour at @corl_conf 2026. If you’re in Austin for the conference, join us on Tuesday, November 10 for drinks, food, and conversation with Bedrock engineers about building end-to-end models in production to turn fifty-ton machines into robots.

Want to watch Bedrock’s end-to-end policy drive an 80,000 lb robot? We’re taking a small group of @corl_conf attendees out to our Texas test site on Nov 11. A demo with @kevinmpeterson1 on real construction equipment, lunch, and a shuttle back in time for the CoRL reception. Active site, so we have limited seats. RSVP below.

Teaching a machine to move dirt the way a veteran operator does is one of the hardest problems on our roadmap. David Garber calls it trying to teach a robot to play jazz, since an experienced operator is optimizing dozens of variables at once. Full conversation below.

Episode 2 of Unsupervised, “Giant Autonomous Machines,” is out now. Bedrock CEO, @bsofman joins @nuro President @ to break down the unique safety challenges, engineering rigor, and team dynamics required to make autonomous machines truly work in high-stakes real world environments. Listen for more on the critical evolution on physical AI, and where it’s headed next.

Bedrock has been named to the @RationalOptSoc's Innovators League 30, drawn from the 1,200+ startups they track. Their bar: the problem has to matter at civilizational scale, the tech has to be real, and they have to have seen the hardware themselves. Thanks for including us on the list.