Facts

• Segment: Service
• Country: Canada
• Founded: 2015
• Website: https://www.aandkrobotics.com/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Products
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Operations / Deployments
• Team
• Relationships
• Context tags
• Customers and deployments
• Sources

Summary

A-and-K Robotics builds autonomous mobile robots for indoor navigation, transport and assistance in public and commercial spaces. Its systems are used for mobility support and service workflows in environments such as airports, hospitals and facilities where robots need to move safely around people.

Market context

A&K Robotics is one of the few companies pushing autonomous passenger mobility into live airport environments rather than controlled demos. Its current position is stronger than a typical concept-stage micromobility startup because Cruz has been used in active airport settings and the company is now scaling from pilots toward permanent deployments.

Products

• Cruz Mobility Pod - Cruz

Facts

• Website: https://www.aandkrobotics.com/
• HQ: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Founded: 2015
• Segment: Service
• Known funding rounds: 1

Funding

• 2026-04-21 - Series A - $6M - A&K Robotics raises $8M CAD Series A to scale autonomous airport mobility deployments - source: businesswire.com

Investors

• BDC Capital Industrial Innovation Venture Fund - Lead - Strategic Industrial - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2026-04-21
• Dan Gelbart - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-21
• Grep VC - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-21
• Nimbus Synergies - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-21
• RiSC Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-21
• Vantage Futures - Lead - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-21

Autonomous indoor mobility robot company

A&K Robotics builds Cruz, an autonomous electric mobility pod for airports, museums and other large indoor venues.

• Target environment: Airports, museums, large public venues, terminals and indoor pedestrian environments.
• Deployment model: Autonomous mobility robots supplied for venue deployment, with focus on accessibility and passenger movement.
• Customer context: Airport operators, public venues, accessibility teams, museums and mobility-service partners.
• Workflow context: Passenger transport, indoor autonomous navigation, accessibility support, wayfinding and mobility assistance.
• Commercial maturity: Early commercial scaling, with Series A funding and airport mobility deployments or tests.
• Market position: Service robotics company focused on self-driving indoor mobility rather than warehouse or industrial transport.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on pedestrian safety, venue integration, accessibility requirements, navigation reliability, fleet management and passenger trust.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes autonomous mobility pods, airport robotics, indoor service robots and accessibility transport systems.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2026-04-21 - Funding - A&K Robotics raises $8M CAD Series A to scale autonomous airport mobility deployments - A&K Robotics raised $8 million CAD in Series A funding to expand autonomous mobility deployments in airports.
• 2025-11-06 - Org Change - A&K Robotics appoints Melonee Wise to board of advisors - A&K Robotics appointed Melonee Wise to its board of advisors.
• 2025-10-29 - Partnership - A&K Robotics partners with Aena to deploy Cruz mobility pods at Madrid-Barajas Airport - A&K Robotics entered a collaboration agreement with Aena to deploy Cruz autonomous mobility pods at Mad…
• 2025-10-29 - Deployment - A&K Robotics deploys Cruz mobility pods at Madrid-Barajas Airport - A&K Robotics deployed five Cruz autonomous mobility pods at Madrid-Barajas Airport as part of a pilot program.
• 2024-07-25 - Deployment - A&K Robotics begins testing Cruz autonomous mobility pods at Vancouver International Airport - A&K Robotics began testing its Cruz autonomous mobility pods at Vancouver International Airport in…

Operations / Deployments

• 2025-10-29 - Partnership - A&K Robotics partners with Aena to deploy Cruz mobility pods at Madrid-Barajas Airport - A&K Robotics entered a collaboration agreement with Aena to deploy Cruz autonomous mobility pods at Mad…

Team

• Matthew Anderson - Co-Founder and CEO
• Jessica Yip - Co-Founder and COO - Adds operating founder context for A&K Robotics' autonomous airport mobility platform and deployment model.

Relationships

• Airport / operator deployment partner (named) - A&K Robotics collaboration with Aena for Cruz pods at Madrid-Barajas (GlobeNewswire).
• Airport / operator deployment partner (named) - Cruz pilot deployment at Madrid-Barajas Airport (GlobeNewswire; named site).
• Airport / operator deployment partner (named) - A&K Robotics deployed Cruz autonomous mobility pods at Vancouver International Airport.

Context tags

• Autonomous mobility platform builder - Peer Group
• Autonomous mobility operations - Workflow
• Indoor autonomous navigation - Capability
• Mobility service robotics - Peer Group
• Public mobility environments - Customer Environment

Customers and deployments

• Named Customer Site - Cruz mobility pods deployed at Madrid-Barajas Airport - 2025-10-29 - Aena - airport passenger mobility - A&K Robotics deployed Cruz mobility pods at Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas Airport with Aena.…
• Airport Trial Site Count - 1 airport testing site - 2024-07-25 - Vancouver International Airport - airport passenger mobility - A&K Robotics began testing Cruz autonomous mobility pods at Vancouver International Airport…