Autonomous excavators are digging with empty cabs

If you have ever driven past a construction site and watched an excavator moving huge piles of dirt, you probably figured there was an experienced operator sitting in the cab.

On some job sites in Texas and Nevada, there is nobody in that seat.

San Francisco-based Bedrock Robotics has autonomous excavators doing real commercial earthwork with no operator onboard.

The company says the deployments follow a year of testing on active job sites with human supervision.

Seeing AI take over software tasks is one thing.

Watching it control a massive excavator on a live construction site feels very different.

Bedrock says this could help contractors deal with worker shortages and keep projects moving more efficiently.

Here's how the technology works and what could come next.

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One machine is working on a Nevada water treatment facility with Sundt Construction.