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Advanced Autonomy for the Built World

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Explore how autonomous construction equipment and heavy machinery transform the built world. Bedrock Robotics CEO Boris Sofman discusses autonomous excavators, loaders, and construction robots, sharing insights from leading Waymo's autonomous trucking program and Anki's robotics innovation. From Actuate, Foxglove's annual robotics developer conference.

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Boris Sofman, Co-Founder & CEO, Bedrock Robotics

Boris Sofman is the co-founder and CEO of Bedrock Robotics. The company is focused on enabling fully self-operating heavy machinery (enabled by a fairly inexpensive upfit) in sectors such as construction to drive improvements in the cost, schedule, safety, and predictability of projects and reimagine the operations of a modern General Contractor. Before Bedrock Robotics, Boris was an executive at Waymo, where he led autonomous trucking as well as key core technologies (including Perception, Reliability, and Freeways) in the push to launch autonomous cars to the public in the Waymo One ride-hailing network. Waymo robo-taxis have driven over 100 million driverless miles across 5 cities at superhuman levels of safety. Previously, Boris co-founded and led Anki, a consumer robotics company known for its innovative entertainment products. Boris holds a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University.

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