If you’re still wrapping your head around the idea of self-driving cars, get ready for something that might seem even wilder: self-driving construction equipment exists, and it’s already out there digging away on job sites.

We first wrote about Built Robotics back in 2019, when the company was in the early stages of firing up its autonomous excavators. Within months, they’d be starting to expand their efforts to other construction equipment like dozers and loaders.

But as the pandemic sent everyone at Built HQ home, the company knew it had to change things up. Quickly shifting any company to remote presents challenges. But a company working on massive autonomous robots? They had to adjust their approach.