

JLG Industries, a world manufacturer of mobile aerial work platforms and telehandlers, introduced Jan. 5 that it has acquired Canvas, a San Francisco-based building robotics know-how firm identified for robotic options for putting in and ending drywall. Phrases weren’t disclosed. The acquisition consists of Canvas’ core know-how which drives the 1200CX drywall robotic platform.
“Robotics and automation will play an more and more essential position in the way forward for building, particularly because the business appears to be like for sensible methods to ship larger efficiencies, enhance productiveness and improve consistency on job websites,” says Shashank Bhatia, entry section chief know-how officer at McConnellsburg, Pa.-based JLG, a division of Oshkosh Corp. “This acquisition strengthens our know-how roadmap and accelerates our potential to ship options that create actual, measurable worth for patrons within the discipline.”
CEO Albert and the Canvas crew will turn out to be JLG staff however will proceed to be based mostly in San Francisco. Canvas’ know-how combines robotic precision with the talents and experience of educated tradespeople who function its drywall robotics platform. The system streamlines inside ending workflows by automating fit-and-finish duties, lowering rework and delivering constant high quality whereas minimizing bodily demand.
Bhatia says Canvas’ know-how will likely be used to advance the corporate’s robotic capabilities and autonomy, together with pairing with JLG elevate entry gear to help a variety of inside building purposes. These new processes will likely be designed to help expert employees by taking up repetitive, bodily demanding duties to permit crews to give attention to higher-value work.
“We truly began speaking with them in 2017, the 12 months Canvas was based,” Bhatia explains. “Their know-how was at all times good, bit we weren’t aligned at the moment. Their go-to-market technique was to be a common contractor. In 2021, I talked to [Canvas CEO Kevin Albert] once more and that is once they had been engaged on the 1200CX product that might do a level-5 end,” he says. “In 2024 we noticed a glimpse of it, and I actually favored it. My thoughts was churning into ‘how can I take advantage of this in our present merchandise?’ For us,
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Bhatia says the mixed firm is seeking to innovate duties similar to drywall set up and ending, nonetheless largely achieved by hand by single laborers, into actions that gear can improve the identical means a hydraulic excavator can exchange tons of of shovels within the palms of human employees.
“The way forward for the job website goes to maneuver from enabling work to executing work,” Bhatia says. “Serving to the operator do the work. You possibly can positively see a case the place the most effective place for the operator is to be on the bottom with a swarm of robots being managed by operators on the bottom which are doing the work at peak.”
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