Robot model
Canvas drywall-finishing robot
Canvas (San Francisco; founder and CEO Kevin Albert, formerly of Boston Dynamics; about $43M+ raised including a $24M round) makes a drywall-finishing robot: a…
- Manufacturer
- Canvas
- Form factor
- construction
- Maturity
- commercial
- Lifecycle
- active
- Deployments
- 1
- Website
- canvas.build ↗
The verified answer
As of Sep 2026, DEPLOY verifies Canvas drywall-finishing robot, a construction by Canvas (commercial): 1 verified deployment on record. 6 sources back the record.
Overview
Canvas (San Francisco; founder and CEO Kevin Albert, formerly of Boston Dynamics; about $43M+ raised including a $24M round) makes a drywall-finishing robot: a Universal Robots UR10e collaborative arm mounted on a mobile base that applies and sands drywall compound to a finished wall surface, operated by a trained union carpenter. It has been deployed on commercial construction projects in the San Francisco Bay Area and is recorded at commercial maturity.
An important correction worth recording: Canvas was acquired by JLG Industries (an Oshkosh Corporation company) around January 2026, in a core-technology and asset acquisition with undisclosed terms. This contradicts the originating dispatch's premise that Dusty Robotics acquired Canvas; two independent research passes confirm the acquirer is JLG/Oshkosh, not Dusty, and the two companies are unrelated. Operations continue under JLG/Oshkosh, so the lifecycle state is active.
Verified vs. claimed
- Maturity stage
- commercial(Commercially deployed with revenue-generating operations.)
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Key facts
Robot arm
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Data & sources
Press releases
2
News coverage
3
Web sources
1
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Availability and pricing
- Availability
- Not sold (internal use)
- Price
- Not publicly disclosed
- Units in field
- Not disclosed
- Sales model
- Not disclosed
- Lead time
- Not disclosed
Pricing
No verified price is on record for Canvas drywall-finishing robot. Physical-AI systems are often sold through enterprise contracts or operated as a service rather than at a public list price.
Deployments (1)
- Canvas drywall-finishing robot at Newarkoperational
The Canvas drywall-finishing robot was used on the Newark Civic Center project (about 73,000 square feet) in Newark, California.
Canvas drywall-finishing robot on the deployment map
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Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 4, 2026
Canvas 1200CX drywall-finishing robot
- Record createdJun 3, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJan 1, 2021
at Newark
Manufacturer-attributed media (1)
Manufacturer-supplied media at the model level. Not tied to an independently verified named-site deployment. Verification posture is product-showcase from the maker, distinct from the deployment-verified evidence in the section above.
Canvas footage of its 1200CX drywall-finishing robot. Canvas frames it as worker-controlled, putting better tools in the hands of skilled workers; an operator-driven assistive finishing robot, not autonomous construction.
Safety record
No incidents on record for Canvas drywall-finishing robot.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Sources (6)
- https://www.canvas.build/
- https://www.therobotreport.com/canvas-raises-24m-automate-drywall-finishing/
- https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/30/canvas-its-drywall-finishing-robot-and-its-vision-for-the-construction-industry/
- https://www.constructiondive.com/news/oshkosh-jlg-acquires-construction-robotics-firm-canvas/
- https://www.therobotreport.com/jlg-industries-acquires-drywall-finishing-robot-developer-canvas/
- https://www.constructionrobotics.build/
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Methodology: Verified · 6 sources (2 primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-12
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-07-12
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: commercial
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: construction
Sources by quality tier
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- Company IR disclosure
- 2
- secondary-trade-publication
- Trade publication
- 1
- secondary-industry-publication
- Industry publication
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Canvas drywall-finishing robot.Recent coverage
Canvas drywall-finishing robot in third-party press
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End of bricklayers? A robot smaller than a refrigerator and battery-powered challenges the most exhausting routine of construction sites: it plasters, sands, and finishes an entire drywall by itself, cutting the time for this service from five days to two and capturing - CPG Click Petróleo e Gás
JLG acquires robotics developer - Vertikal
Attention vs reality over time
Media mentions per month (area) against verified deployment events (dots). A press spike over a flat deployment line is the hype gap, drawn over time.
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Canvas drywall-finishing robot from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
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End of bricklayers? A robot smaller than a refrigerator and battery-powered challenges the most exhausting routine of construction sites: it plasters, sands, and finishes an entire drywall by itself, cutting the time for this service from five days to two and capturing - CPG Click Petróleo e Gás
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JLG acquires robotics developer - Vertikal
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Prepare for humanoid construction robots starting now: report - Construction Dive
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SF's Otherlab spawns start-ups with green-tech to fight climate change - KALW
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Canvas, World’s First Robotic Drywall Finishing Company, Launches the 1200CX - Business Wire
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Concrete Finishing Robot Cuts Labour Costs by 30% - Construction Kenya
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Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /models/canvas-drywall-robot.md
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/models/389caf0e-4e54-48b9-a93d-cc31fcda650c
- Revision history: /models/canvas-drywall-robot/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Buyer-facing pricing: deploy.report/price/canvas-drywall-robot
Video
For more information, go to https://www.canvas.build/contact.html Learn how easy it is to deploy a Canvas machine on your project! #robotics #constructionrobot
For more information, go to https://www.canvas.build/contact.html Canvas deployed on a recent Daley's Drywall project with the taper working with two machines
Construction is currently facing a labor shortage crisis with 2 workers retiring for every new worker entering. Canvas is bringing robotics to construction to b
Construction is currently facing a labor shortage crisis with 2 workers retiring for every new worker entering. Canvas is bringing robotics to construction, sta
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Reality vs attention
Canvas drywall-finishing robot draws attention at the 87th percentile but verifies reality at the 35th percentile among construction robots. Hype Gap +51.6, 2nd widest among construction robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Thin deployment record; scale validation still in progress.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Sep 1, 2026