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Excavators are automated to build the datacenters

development2026-02-05

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Bedrock Robotics raised $270 million to automate multi-ton excavators for datacenter construction, Uber expanded robotaxis to Hong Kong and Madrid, and Musk called Optimus the first von Neumann machine capable of building civilization on any planet.

Reported metric: $270M

Reporting date: 2026-02-05 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to February 5, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Fremont converts to a million robots a year

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Excavators are automated to build the datacenters
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-02-05
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-02-05-bedrock-automates-excavators
Claim: Bedrock Robotics raised $270 million to automate multi-ton excavators for datacenter construction, Uber expanded robotaxis to Hong Kong and Madrid, and Musk called Optimus the first von Neumann machine capable of building civilization on any planet.
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- Welcome to February 5, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-february-5-2026
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