{"id":"389caf0e-4e54-48b9-a93d-cc31fcda650c","companyId":"7df159f9-5b2d-4e3d-b268-65703f53ab87","modelName":"Canvas drywall-finishing robot","slug":"canvas-drywall-robot","description":"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.","formFactor":"construction","maturityStage":"commercial","lifecycleState":"active","supersededByModelId":null,"specs":{"notes":[{"label":"Verified","value":"Canvas (San Francisco; founder/CEO Kevin Albert, ex-Boston Dynamics; ~$43M+ raised incl. $24M round) makes a drywall-finishing robot built on a Universal Robots UR10e collaborative arm on a mobile base, operated by union carpenters; deployed on commercial projects in the SF Bay Area. maturity=commercial."},{"label":"Correction (cross-graph M&A)","value":"Canvas was acquired by JLG Industries (an Oshkosh Corporation company) around Jan 2026 (core-technology/asset acquisition, terms undisclosed). The originating dispatch's premise that Dusty Robotics acquired Canvas is INCORRECT - two independent research passes confirm JLG/Oshkosh, not Dusty. lifecycleState=active (operations continue under JLG/Oshkosh)."}],"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)"},"manufacturerSerial":null,"reviewStatus":"reviewed","sources":[{"url":"https://www.canvas.build/","title":"Canvas drywall-finishing robot (official)","sourceName":"Canvas (official)"},{"url":"https://www.therobotreport.com/canvas-raises-24m-automate-drywall-finishing/","title":"Canvas raises $24M to automate drywall finishing (UR10e cobot base; Kevin Albert ex-Boston Dynamics)","sourceName":"The Robot Report"},{"url":"https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/30/canvas-its-drywall-finishing-robot-and-its-vision-for-the-construction-industry/","title":"Canvas drywall-finishing robot + construction vision ($19M+ raised)","sourceName":"TechCrunch"},{"url":"https://www.constructiondive.com/news/oshkosh-jlg-acquires-construction-robotics-firm-canvas/","title":"JLG (Oshkosh) acquires Canvas (Jan 2026; core technology/assets)","sourceName":"Construction Dive"},{"url":"https://www.therobotreport.com/jlg-industries-acquires-drywall-finishing-robot-developer-canvas/","title":"JLG Industries acquires drywall-finishing robot developer Canvas","sourceName":"The Robot Report"},{"url":"https://www.constructionrobotics.build/","title":"Canvas product context: union-carpenter-operated drywall finishing in SF Bay Area","sourceName":"Canvas (official)"}],"aliases":["Canvas robot","Canvas drywall robot"],"collisionRisk":"low","reviewNote":null,"manufacturerTermForTeleop":null,"createdAt":"2026-06-03T17:39:15.118Z","updatedAt":"2026-06-03T17:39:15.118Z","jsonLd":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Product","@id":"https://registry.deploy.report/models/canvas-drywall-robot","url":"https://registry.deploy.report/models/canvas-drywall-robot","name":"Canvas drywall-finishing robot","alternateName":["Canvas robot","Canvas drywall robot"],"description":"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.","identifier":"389caf0e-4e54-48b9-a93d-cc31fcda650c","category":"construction","publisher":{"@id":"https://deploy.report/#organization"}}}