Gravis Robotics Timeline

Events

• 2026-08-17 - Funding - Gravis Robotics raises $200M Series A from SoftBank - Gravis retrofits excavators and other existing heavy machinery with perception, compute and control systems rather than requiring purpose-built autonomous equipment. The company reports deployments across four continents, with customer and partner work… - source: inc.com
• 2026-08-10 - Award - Gravis Robotics and Flannery funded for multi-excavator autonomy programme - The programme covers autonomous trenching, bulk excavation and truck loading. Testing will extend Gravis’s retrofit autonomy stack into a six-excavator, multi-machine trial with UK plant-hire company Flannery. The funded work is designed to validate… - source: zenzic.io
• 2026-03-06 - Award - Gravis Robotics wins Next Level Award for Gravis Rack - • Gravis Robotics' Gravis Rack was selected as the Contractors’ Choice for best technology at the 2026 CONEXPO-CON/AGG Next Level Awards. • The award was announced on March 6, 2026, during a ceremony on the Ground Breakers Stage. • Attendees voted for the… - source: conexpoconagg.com
• 2026-03-03 - Deployment - Gravis Robotics expands into the US with autonomous construction equipment platform - Gravis announced full commercial expansion into the US at CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2026 in Las Vegas The company demonstrated autonomous earthmoving capabilities with partners Develon and Hitachi Construction Machinery Americas, including trenching and bulk… - source: construction-update.co.uk
• 2025-11-28 - Funding - Gravis Robotics raises $23M to scale autonomous earthmoving technology - Named investors or backers include IQ Capital, Zacua Ventures, Pear VC, Imad Ventures, Sunna Ventures, Armada Investment, Holcim. The financing supports continued product development, deployment scaling, and commercialization of the company's robotics… - source: tech.eu
• 2025-04-30 - Deployment - Gravis Robotics deploys autonomous excavator system in Holcim UK quarry trial - A Develon crawler excavator fitted with Gravis autonomy was trialed at Holcim UK's Lee Moor quarry in Plymouth The system was used to feed a screener with sand and gravel in live quarry operations The trial supported subsequent commercialization work between… - source: holcim.co.uk
• 2025-04-15 - Product Launch - Gravis Robotics launches Anywhere Autonomy platform with six OEMs at Bauma 2025 - Gravis launched its Anywhere Autonomy platform at Bauma 2025 The launch highlighted manufacturer-agnostic deployment across multiple OEMs The platform extends Gravis retrofit autonomy model for excavators and related earthmoving equipment - source: einnews.com
• 2025-04-10 - Partnership - Gravis Robotics signs three-way MOU with HD Hyundai XiteSolution and Holcim - HD Hyundai XiteSolution, Gravis Robotics, and Holcim signed a strategic agreement at bauma 2025 to develop and commercialize autonomous technology for quarry operations and confined material-handling workflows. The partnership is centered on integrating… - source: eu.develon-ce.com
• 2022-10-01 - Company Formation - Gravis Robotics is founded as an ETH Zurich spinout for autonomous construction machinery - Gravis Robotics was founded in October 2022 as a spinout from ETH Zurich The company was formed to develop technologies that make large-scale construction machines autonomous Early work built on ETH Zurich research in robotic excavation and autonomy for… - source: dfab.ch