# Canvas

> Canvas builds worker-operated robots that finish drywall on commercial construction sites. Its flagship machine, the 1200CX, sprays and sands joint compound to Level 4 and 5 finishes in roughly two days instead of five, has finished close to a million square feet to date, and was acquired in 2025 by JLG Industries (an Oshkosh Corporation company) to scale across interior construction.

- **Founded:** 2017
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Kevin Albert (Co-founder & CEO), Maria Telleria (Co-founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~110 (LinkedIn lists 51-200)
- **Products:** Canvas 1200CX, Original Canvas robot platform
- **Notable:** First company to commercially deploy a drywall finishing robot, Featured on Forbes AI 50 and Fortune startup lists, Won Pro Tools Innovation Award for Technology/Robotics

## Products & services

- **Canvas 1200CX** — Compact, battery-powered, worker-operated drywall finishing robot. Self-drives, all-wheel steers, sprays joint compound and sands walls up to 12 feet, capturing 99.9% of the dust. Measures 30 x 34.5 inches and weighs 1,200 lb.
- **Original Canvas robot platform** — First-generation drywall finishing system combining mobile platform, AI perception, and a Universal Robots UR10e cobot arm. Refined on real job sites in partnership with District Council 16 of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades.

## Achievements

- First company to commercially deploy a drywall finishing robot
- Featured on Forbes AI 50 and Fortune startup lists
- Won Pro Tools Innovation Award for Technology/Robotics
- Robots have finished close to 1,000,000 sq ft of drywall on live job sites
- Acquired by JLG Industries (an Oshkosh Corporation company) in 2025

## Latest updates

- **2025** — JLG Industries (Oshkosh) acquires Canvas's core robotics technology and engineering team to expand interior-construction automation.
- **2024-07** — Canvas launches the 1200CX, a compact drywall finishing robot for multi-family and tower projects.
- **2021-04** — Canvas raises $24M Series B led by Menlo Ventures with Suffolk Construction joining the cap table.
- **2020-11** — Canvas exits stealth after three years of development with the painters' union.

## Links

- Website: https://canvas.build
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/we-are-canvas

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Last updated: 2026-05-19