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Canvas

Canvas makes Canvas drywall finishing robot, which is at stage 1 of 5: demo only.

Website: canvas.build
Based in: United States
Latest milestone: 13 March 2023

01Robots

What Canvas makes

Each robot's stage is worked out from its dated, sourced milestones by the same published rules, whoever the maker is.

Canvas drywall finishing robotConstruction · Drywall finishing robotStage 1 of 5 · Demo onlyCanvas makes a robot that spreads and sands joint compound (the paste that smooths the seams between drywall boards) on interior walls, a job usually done by hand. Its arm extends to reach high walls.Used by drywall contractors on large buildings in the San Francisco area, such as a terminal at San Francisco airport, according to Canvas.The full record

02Track record

Every dated event

13 March 2023Milestone
Tool maker Hilti agreed to manufacture future Canvas robots, built on the base of its own Jaibot drilling robot. Canvas said demand had outgrown what it could build itself.
Hilti press release, 13 Mar 2023Company-reported
30 Jan 2023Milestone
The Washington Post listed Canvas among construction start-ups with working robots, describing its machine as a mobile robot that finishes drywall.
The Washington Post, 30 Jan 2023
2017Milestone
Canvas was founded in San Francisco in 2017 by people who had worked at Boston Dynamics, MIT and Stanford.
Hilti press release, 13 Mar 2023Company-reported

03Money

How it's funded

Latest funding round we could confirm: Canvas raised a $24 million Series B round led by Menlo Ventures, with builder Suffolk Construction taking part. The Robot Report, 15 Apr 2021

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