Diligent Robotics develops Moxi, a socially-intelligent robot teammate that automates hospital tasks such as deliveries of supplies, equipment, medications and lab specimens to augment staff and improve operational efficiency. Led by Dr. Andrea Thomaz and Dr. Vivian Chu and based in Austin, TX, the company deploys Moxi across health systems to enable programs like Meds to Beds, Just in Time Logistics and Virtual Nursing. Moxi is currently adopted by more than 22 health systems representing over 200 hospitals nationwide, including NorthShore–Edward-Elmhurst Health, MultiCare Health System, the University of Texas-affiliated network and Northwestern Medicine. The company raised $25M in a financing led by Canaan with participation from True Ventures, DNX Ventures, Next Coast Ventures and new strategic investor Northwestern Medicine Innovation; Rich Boyle from Canaan will join the board. Diligent will use the funds to accelerate systemwide expansions of Moxi across hospitals nationwide, enhance product development, and triple its market footprint over the next 24 months. Diligent Robotics is an Austin, TX-based robotic automation company focused on the social robotics space, building robots with social intelligence and mobile manipulation to help people in work environments. Led by co-founders Dr. Andrea Thomaz and Dr. Vivian Chu, the company debuted Moxi in 2018, a collaborative robot assistant that helps clinical staff with routine, non-patient-facing tasks including fetching and delivering supplies, medications, and lab samples. In December 2022 the company raised over $30M in a Series B financing. The company intends to use the funds to optimize supply chain and design teams. Diligent Robotics plans to continue enhancing interoperability and driving purposeful integrations with existing hospital infrastructure, electronic health records, and clinical communications to help meet demands during the persistent nursing shortage. Diligent Robotics develops Moxi, a mobile hospital droid with a flexible arm, gripper hand, adjustable height and social signals that fetches lightweight medical supplies and navigates crowded hallways. The company has worked side‑by‑side with nurses to refine Moxi’s capabilities and is on its fifth hardware generation. It currently employs an 18‑person team and has two deployed robots in Dallas while working with two of the three top U.S. hospital networks. Hospitals purchase Moxi with an upfront fee and then pay a monthly charge for software, services and maintenance. The startup plans to scale deployments, expand Moxi’s use cases, add on‑robot learning so nurses can teach tasks on the fly, and eventually explore applications in nursing homes and consumer homes. Financially, Diligent has taken a measured deployment approach to convince risk‑averse hospital buyers and differentiate via social intelligence rather than replacing clinical staff. Diligent Robotics develops Moxi, a mobile robot with a dextrous arm and "social intelligence" designed to handle non-patient-facing hospital chores such as lab sample delivery and linen removal. The company was founded in 2017 and focused its early deployments on healthcare, beta testing Moxi in four U.S. hospitals. Moxi exited beta and entered market with its first official rollout in a Texas hospital. Diligent emphasizes human-guided learning and expressive motions to help staff feel comfortable around the robot. The startup has raised multiple funding tranches and a National Science Foundation grant to support product development and commercialization. Management says proceeds will be used to launch Moxi for hospital customers and to advance hardware and software product strategy. Diligent Robotics is an Austin, Texas-based robotics company developing an autonomous hospital service robot designed to assist clinical staff with logistical tasks so they can spend more time on direct patient care. The robots use patent-pending interactive machine learning algorithms to manipulate objects in their environments and quickly adapt to novel conditions. The company is led by co-founders Dr. Andrea Thomaz (CEO) and Dr. Vivian Chu (CTO). Diligent Robotics raised $2.1M in seed funding and previously received $725k in Small Business Innovation Research grants from the National Science Foundation. In early 2018 the company planned to launch a pilot program focused on U.S. hospital care. The product and near-term plans center on deploying autonomous logistics capabilities in clinical settings.

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