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General contractor Webcor deployed the robot to tape, mud, and sand drywall to a Level 5 finish in several rooms, reporting an approximately 34 percent reduction in cycle time. Webcor is the general contractor; the City of Newark is the owner.","keyFacts":[{"label":"Site","value":"Newark Civic Center (about 73,000 sq ft), Newark, California"},{"label":"General contractor","value":"Webcor"},{"label":"Owner","value":"City of Newark"},{"label":"Task","value":"Taping, mudding, and sanding drywall to Level 5 finish"},{"label":"Result","value":"About 34 percent cycle-time reduction"}],"reviewNote":null,"exposureHours":null,"deploymentMilesEstimate":null,"exposureBasis":null,"customerSegment":null,"scaleTier":null,"contractValueUsd":null,"contractValueBasis":null,"customerCompanyId":null,"customerExternalName":null,"createdAt":"2026-07-12T15:08:35.299Z","updatedAt":"2026-07-12T15:21:05.586Z","model":{"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. 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