On August 17, 2026, Gravis Robotics, a company retrofitting construction machines with autonomous technology, announced their Series A financing, with SoftBank investing $200 million in the company. The funding is the largest Series A in construction robotics history and will be used to scale autonomous machinery, bringing physical artificial intelligence (AI) directly to construction sites and embedding autonomous systems into heavy machinery fleets. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati advised Gravis on the transaction.
The Wilson Sonsini team that advised Gravis on the transaction includes:
Corporate
Michael Labriola
Ashmi Bhagani
Elisa Sielski
Betty Rosenbaum
Charlotte Eynon
Steve Herlin
Alex Moffitt
Hayden Smith
Daniel Jordan
Henry James Oates
Shivani Patel
Regulatory
Joshua Gruenspecht
Mike Casey
Anne Seymour
Seth Cowell
Jack Davies
Nimit Dhir
Bryan Poellot
Georgia Cooper-Dervan
Antitrust and Competition
Deirdre Carroll
Andrew Morrison
Employment Law
Martin Luff
Employee Benefits and Compensation
Matthew Norgard
Fleur Benns
Data, Privacy, and Cybersecurity
Nikolaos Theodorakis
Tom Evans
Technology Transactions
Rodrigo Valle
Patents and Innovations
James Yoon
Jeff Nall
For more information, please see Gravis’s blog post.
