2026-10-26 (~5:15 PM ET, The Robot Report): Bedrock Robotics has secured $600 million to scale autonomous heavy equipment, bringing its total funding near $1 billion, framed against surging demand for autonomous heavy equipment and construction labor shortages (therobotreport.com). A new heavy-equipment autonomy funding thread beside the file's warehouse, humanoid and forestry-robotization funding lanes. No investors, valuation, machine classes, or customers in the capture. Watch: investors and valuation, which machine classes and job sites the funding scales toward, named customers or contracts, and first deployed-fleet figures.