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Canvas drywall-finishing robot vs SAM100 in 2026

Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.

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ManufacturerCanvasConstruction Robotics
Form factorconstructionconstruction
Maturitycommercialcommercial
Autonomy——
Availabilityinternal-onlyenterprisediscontinueddiscontinued
PriceNot announcedNot announced
Capability claims——
Brain——
Verified deployments1Canvas1Construction Robotics
Privacy practices——
Sources on file99

Editorial summaries

Canvas drywall-finishing robot

Canvas (San Francisco; founder and CEO Kevin Albert, formerly of Boston Dynamics; about $43M-plus raised) 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. There is no consumer price: it is B2B construction equipment, not sold to consumers. It is at commercial maturity, deployed on commercial construction projects in the San Francisco Bay Area. A verified-vs-claimed 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; some framings that attribute the acquisition to Dusty Robotics are incorrect, as independent research confirms the acquirer is JLG/Oshkosh and the two companies are unrelated. Operations continue under JLG/Oshkosh, so the line is active. It anchors the cobot-assisted finishing task type (a human carpenter operates it).

SAM100

Construction Robotics (Victor, New York) is best known for the SAM100 (Semi-Automated Mason), a bricklaying robot designed to work alongside a human mason, and for the MULE (Material Unit Lift Enhancer), a material-lift-assist device. There is no consumer price, and the SAM100 bricklaying line is discontinued. The SAM100 reached commercial deployment with masonry contractors at its peak (recorded at commercial maturity historically), but it appears wound down: the company's homepage now leads with the MULE lift-assist product and the dedicated SAM page is no longer prominently maintained, indicating a pivot to the MULE line. Throughput claims such as roughly 3,000 bricks per day are vendor- and press-stated, and there is no reliable current count of active SAM100 units, so the bricklaying line is best treated as historical. With FBR's pilot-stage Hadrian X, the SAM100 forms the bricklaying-automation cautionary pair: two different approaches to brick-laying robotics, one wound down and one stalled at pilot.

Common questions

What is the difference between Canvas drywall-finishing robot and SAM100?
Canvas drywall-finishing robot and SAM100 are both construction robots on the DEPLOY registry. They differ in maker, maturity, price, verified deployments, and how much of their autonomy is independently verified. See the table above for the full head-to-head; each figure is sourced.
Which has more verified deployments, Canvas drywall-finishing robot or SAM100?
Canvas drywall-finishing robot and SAM100 each have 1 verified deployment on the DEPLOY registry (confirmed at named sites with primary sources).

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