Gravis Robotics and Flannery funded for multi-excavator autonomy programme

Aug 10, 2026 · Award · Gravis Robotics · Construction

Gravis Robotics and Flannery received UK programme funding to validate autonomous earthmoving across six excavators.

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  • 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 coordinated autonomous earthmoving in operating conditions.

Gravis Robotics develops autonomy systems for construction and quarry equipment, retrofitting excavators and loaders with sensing, compute, controls and operator interfaces for earthmoving work.