Canvas announced its strategic partnership with USG Corp. The partnership leverages two major technical advances: onsite robotics from Canvas and advanced building materials expertise from USG. These organizations joined forces to collectively innovate and address chronic labor shortages, schedule and budget overruns, quality inconsistencies, and productivity and safety issues that have continuously challenged the drywall industry.

Over the past 122 years, USG has invented ground-breaking products and technologies for the building materials industry and holds more than 2,600 active patents. Canvas brings unprecedented productivity to one of the most labor-intensive scopes in construction: drywall finishing. Canvas's collaborative robot machines, introduced to drywall contractors in 2022, use AI and machine learning to sense, understand and execute to the exact specifications of each project.

The machine's arm is designed to minimize overuse injuries that drywall finishers often experience, helping elongate trade workers' careers. The partnership between USG and Canvas changes the constraints on innovation and unlocks entirely new evolution paths for the drywall industry. The automotive industry experienced a similar "machine + material" revolution when robots began applying finishes to cars.

Application accuracy and consistency enabled the use of new materials and processes that were not possible with a purely manual method. This marks the second major announcement from Canvas in several months to revolutionize the process of drywall finishing. Canvas announced that global construction equipment manufacturer, Hilti, will produce Canvas's robotic machines, making them more reliable, robust and ruggedized for the construction site.