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Canvas Partners with International Union on Novel Drywalling Robot

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Organization: Canvas
Country: USA
Website: Canvas.build
Year Founded: 2017
Number of Employees: 11-15
Innovation Class: Applications & Markets Innovation
Innovation Subclass: Construction / Demolition

Canvas is changing the drywalling process by giving construction workers better tools.

Description:
San Francisco-based Canvas exited stealth mode in November 2020, unveiling a semi-autonomous drywall finishing robot. The robot combines a mobile base, robot arm, multiple end effectors and multiple sensing modalities to spray and sand drywall mud.

Canvas currently focuses on installing drywall at commercial construction sites larger than 10,000 square feet. It claims it can consistently deliver better than Level 5 finish, what it calls Machine-Finished Level 5, and reduce finishing times by up to 2.5x.

Analysis:
Drywall finishing represents one of the dirtiest jobs in construction. It’s also often over budget and behind schedule. Canvas is changing this by putting better tools in the hands of construction workers by creating a new class of robotics.

Canvas also partnered with leading builders, including Webcor, Swinerton, and Suffolk, and District Council 16 of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades. This will not only help improve the technology, it gets the robot into the hands of more skilled operators. Canvas’ approach will help construction workers familiarize themselves with and accept robotic technology, which is often a barrier to adoption in many industries.

Canvas considers itself a tech-enabled drywall subcontractor, not a robotics company. Canvas was set up as a construction company for go-to-market purposes, and the company is hired just like any other subcontractor, except it arrives at the jobsite with state-of-the-art robots in tow. – Steve Crowe


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