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 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.
Canvas drywall-finishing robot is a construction robot built by
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- Form factor
- construction
- Maturity stage
- commercial
- Lifecycle
- active
- Deployments
- 0
- ID
389caf0e-4e54-48b9-a93d-cc31fcda650c
Specs
- notes
- [object Object],[object Object]
- products
- Canvas drywall-finishing robot - a UR10e collaborative arm on a mobile base that applies and sands drywall compound to a finished wall surface, operated by a trained carpenter
- formFactor
- construction (drywall-finishing / wall-finishing robot, cobot-arm on mobile base)
Supply chain
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Suppliers appear here when verified with at least two strong sources (maker-official / IR / regulatory / standards-body / verified tier-2). Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history.
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/
Common questions
- What is 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 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.
- Who makes Canvas drywall-finishing robot?
- Canvas drywall-finishing robot is made by Canvas, based in San Francisco, California, USA, founded in 2017.
- Where is Canvas drywall-finishing robot deployed?
- No verified deployments of Canvas drywall-finishing robot are currently on the DEPLOY registry. DEPLOY records deployments only when verified at a named site with a primary source; absence may reflect pre-deployment, research, or manufacturer-internal use.
- What is Canvas drywall-finishing robot's maturity stage?
- Canvas drywall-finishing robot is at the commercial stage on the DEPLOY maturity ladder (research, prototype, pilot, commercial, production). Commercial stage means production-grade deployments are operating at named customer sites.