Andromeda Robotics company profile
Andromeda Robotics builds Abi, a social companion robot for aged care and assisted-living settings. Abi is designed to recognize faces, remember conversations, express emotions and support resident wellbeing through consistent, personalized human-robot interaction.
Facts
- Segment: Healthcare
- Country: Australia
- Founded: 2022
- Website: https://andromedarobotics.ai
Profile sections
- Summary
- Market context
- Products
- Facts
- Funding
- Investors
- Context / Market Position
- Events
- Operations / Deployments
- Team
- Context tags
- Customers and deployments
- Articles
- Sources
Summary
Andromeda Robotics builds Abi, a social companion robot for aged care and assisted-living settings. Abi is designed to recognize faces, remember conversations, express emotions and support resident wellbeing through consistent, personalized human-robot interaction.
Market context
Andromeda is one of the clearest examples of humanoid robotics being applied to companionship and wellbeing rather than industrial work. Its Series A funding, aged-care deployments and U. S. expansion plans make it a useful marker for the social-robotics side of embodied AI.
Facts
- Website: https://andromedarobotics.ai
- HQ: Melbourne, Australia
- Founded: 2022
- Segment: Healthcare
- Known funding rounds: 2
Funding
- 2025-09-09 - Series A - $23M - Andromeda Robotics raises $23M Series A to scale Abi companion robots - source: capitalbrief.com
- 2024-06-14 - Seed - $3M - Andromeda Robotics raises $3M seed round to scale Abi across Australian aged care - source: andromedarobotics.ai
Investors
- Forerunner Ventures - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-09-09
- Purpose Ventures - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-06-14
Social humanoid robot builder for aged care and assisted living
Andromeda Robotics builds Abi, a humanoid companion robot designed to reduce loneliness and support resident engagement in aged care and assisted living. The company is commercializing a care-environment robot built around social interaction, memory and emotional expression rather than logistics, cleaning or manipulation tasks.
- Target environment: Aged care homes, assisted-living communities, senior-care providers and adjacent care settings where residents need social and cognitive engagement.
- Deployment model: Care-provider deployments and waitlist-led commercial expansion, with Andromeda supporting Abi as a companion robot for resident engagement programs.
- Customer context: Aged-care operators, assisted-living providers and care teams seeking additional social engagement capacity for residents.
- Workflow context: Companionship, conversation, games, music, emotional support, group activities and memory-based resident interaction.
- Commercial maturity: Early commercial deployment and expansion stage, with Abi used in Australian care settings and Andromeda preparing broader U.S. availability.
- Market position: Andromeda sits in the social and companion robotics lane, separate from industrial humanoid builders focused on labour automation.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on care-provider willingness, resident trust, safety, privacy, emotional acceptance, service support and evidence of wellbeing impact.
- Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes healthcare robotics and social robotics via shared requirements around human interaction, trust, personalisation and care-environment deployment.
- Source confidence: high
Events
- 2026-04-20 - Deployment - mecwacare makes Abi rollout permanent across 22 aged-care homes - mecwacare made Abi rollout permanent across 22 aged-care homes in Victoria.
- 2026-04-10 - Market Signal - Andromeda Robotics expands Abi into U.S. assisted living and senior care market - Pulse+IT reported that Andromeda Robotics was expanding Abi into the United States for assisted living and s…
- 2026-03-25 - Market Signal - Andromeda Robotics opens U.S. waitlist for Abi companion robot - Andromeda Robotics opened a U.S. waitlist for assisted living and senior-care providers interested in Abi.
- 2025-09-09 - Funding - Andromeda Robotics raises $23M Series A to scale Abi companion robots - Andromeda Robotics raised a $23M Series A round led by Forerunner Ventures.
- 2024-06-14 - Funding - Andromeda Robotics raises $3M seed round to scale Abi across Australian aged care - Andromeda Robotics closed a $3M seed round led by Purpose Ventures.
Operations / Deployments
- 2026-04-20 - Deployment - mecwacare makes Abi rollout permanent across 22 aged-care homes - mecwacare made Abi rollout permanent across 22 aged-care homes in Victoria.
Team
- Grace Brown - Founder & CEO
- Brian McCarthy - Chief Commercial Officer - Commercial leader for Andromeda as it expands Abi from Australian aged-care deployments toward broader care-provider adoption.
- Jennifer Haroon - Chief Operating Officer - Operating leader for scaling Andromeda's team, production and care-provider deployment capacity.
- Bryan Balin - VP Product - Product leader for Abi as Andromeda develops its companion-robot experience, care workflows and next-generation platform.
Context tags
- Social Companion Robotics - Peer Group
- Aged Care Robotics - Peer Group
- Humanoid Companion Robot - Workflow
- Resident Engagement - Workflow
- Assisted Living - Customer Environment
- Emotional Interaction - Capability
- Conversational Memory - Capability
- Face Recognition - Capability
- Care Team Support - Workflow
Customers and deployments
- Active Robot Fleet - 22 Abi companion robots across mecwacare homes - 2026-04-20 - mecwacare - aged-care companion robot operations - Andromeda Robotics and mecwacare completed a permanent rollout of 22 Abi companion ro…
Articles
- 2025-09-09 - Andromeda raises A$23M and launches Genesis Abi for aged care - Andromeda’s Series A funds the next-generation Abi companion robot, US expansion and production scaling; Genesis Abi is launching first in age…
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