Consumer model
Canvas drywall-finishing robot
By Canvas · construction
- Price
- —
- Availability
- Internal use only (not for retail).
- Maturity
- commercial
- Real-world use
- No verified deployments
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).
Readiness
Canvas drywall-finishing robot is internal use only (not for retail), no capability claims are on file, the model has no verified field deployments in the registry, and no incidents are on record.
- Availability
- internal-only
Internal use only (not for retail).
- Price honesty
- no-price
No price points on file for Canvas drywall-finishing robot.
- Capability honesty
- no-claims
No reviewed capability claims on file for Canvas drywall-finishing robot.
- Real-world use
- commercial
Maturity: commercial. No verified deployments in the registry.
- Safety record
- no-incidents
No incidents on record. No verified deployments either.
What it claims to do
No reviewed capability claims on file.
Price
No reviewed price points on file.
Real-world use
No verified deployments on file for Canvas drywall-finishing robot.
Safety record
No incidents on record. No verified deployments either, so the absence is uninformative.
Privacy
No privacy practices disclosed or on file for Canvas drywall-finishing robot.
Specs
- notes
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- 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)
What's under the hood
No brain on file for Canvas drywall-finishing robot.
Frequently asked questions
- Is the Canvas drywall-finishing robot actually available for purchase?
- Not available to consumers. In internal use by Canvas.Source: Canvas drywall-finishing robot (official)
- What does the Canvas drywall-finishing robot cost?
- Not announced.
- Where is the Canvas drywall-finishing robot being used?
- No verified field deployments on record.
- Is the Canvas drywall-finishing robot safe?
- No incidents on record, but with no verified field deployments either, the absence is uninformative.
- How does the Canvas drywall-finishing robot handle privacy?
- No privacy practices disclosed or on file for Canvas drywall-finishing robot.
- Who makes the Canvas drywall-finishing robot?
- Canvas drywall-finishing robot is made by Canvas, based in San Francisco, California, USA.Source: Canvas drywall-finishing robot (official)
Video
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.
Manufacturer
Canvas (registry record: /companies/canvas)
Compared to
- Exosystemby Built Robotics · construction
Sources
- Canvas drywall-finishing robot (official) · https://www.canvas.build/
- Canvas raises $24M to automate drywall finishing (UR10e cobot base; Kevin Albert ex-Boston Dynamics) · https://www.therobotreport.com/canvas-raises-24m-automate-drywall-finishing/
- Canvas drywall-finishing robot + construction vision ($19M+ raised) · https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/30/canvas-its-drywall-finishing-robot-and-its-vision-for-the-construction-industry/
- JLG (Oshkosh) acquires Canvas (Jan 2026; core technology/assets) · https://www.constructiondive.com/news/oshkosh-jlg-acquires-construction-robotics-firm-canvas/
- JLG Industries acquires drywall-finishing robot developer Canvas · https://www.therobotreport.com/jlg-industries-acquires-drywall-finishing-robot-developer-canvas/
- Canvas product context: union-carpenter-operated drywall finishing in SF Bay Area · https://www.constructionrobotics.build/
- Canvas official YouTube (@canvasrobotics), embedded under standard YouTube embed terms. oEmbed author_url verified 2026-06-04. · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GYLPttWue8 · 2026-06-04
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