Facts

• Segment: Service
• Country: United States
• Founded: 2017
• Website: https://www.bearrobotics.ai/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Team
• Relationships
• Context tags
• Record / Articles
• Sources

Summary

Bear Robotics builds autonomous service robots for restaurants, hospitality and commercial facilities. Its Servi robots carry food, dishes and supplies through busy indoor spaces, helping staff automate repetitive delivery and bussing tasks during service operations.

Market context

Bear Robotics is one of the more commercially deployed service-robotics companies, with a product line that spans restaurants, hotels, senior living, hospitals and industrial logistics. LG's majority acquisition makes it a key operating robotics asset inside a major consumer-electronics and appliance group. Founded in 2017. Majority-owned subsidiary of LG Electronics since January 2025. Bear Robotics builds autonomous mobile robots for hospitality, service and indoor logistics environments.

• Capability: Autonomous indoor navigation. Food running and table bussing. Hospitality service workflows. Warehouse and factory material transport. Fleet management and robot monitoring. LiDAR-based navigation
• Strategic position: Commercially deployed service-robotics company spanning restaurants, hotels, senior living, hospitals and industrial logistics. Majority-owned by LG Electronics, operating as LG's primary commercial…

Facts

• Website: https://www.bearrobotics.ai/
• HQ: Redwood City, California, United States
• Founded: 2017
• Segment: Service
• Known funding rounds: 2

Funding

• 2024-03-12 - Strategic investment - $60M - Bear Robotics receives USD 60M strategic investment from LG Electronics - source: lg.com
• 2022-03-15 - Series B - $81M - Bear Robotics raises USD 81M Series B - source: thespoon.tech

Investors

• LG Electronics - Lead - Corporate / Cvc - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2024-03-12
• Cleveland Avenue - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-03-15
• IMM - Lead - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-03-15

Indoor service robot builder

Bear Robotics builds autonomous indoor service robots for hospitality, food running, bussing, delivery and commercial cleaning workflows.

• Target environment: Restaurants, hotels, senior living facilities, hospitals, casinos, commercial venues and facility-cleaning environments.
• Deployment model: Commercial service robot sales and fleet deployment, including food delivery, bussing and cleaning robots.
• Customer context: Hospitality operators, restaurants, senior-care facilities, healthcare sites, casinos and commercial facility managers.
• Workflow context: Food running, table bussing, indoor delivery, multi-robot service support and floor-cleaning automation.
• Commercial maturity: Commercially deployed service robotics company with product lines such as Servi, Servi Plus and Servi Clean.
• Market position: Indoor service robot OEM focused on repetitive transit and support tasks inside hospitality and facility environments.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on venue layout, staff workflow fit, navigation reliability, service support, payload needs and customer acceptance.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes restaurant service robots, indoor delivery robots, facility cleaning robots and hospitality automation.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2026-06-22 - Acquisition - Bear Robotics signs definitive agreement to acquire Kinisi Robotics - Kinisi is the Bristol-based startup behind KR1, a wheeled humanoid for pick, place, sort and object-moving workflows.
• 2026-05-19 - Product Launch - Bear Robotics launches Servi Q compact robot for tight restaurant and hospitality spaces - Bear Robotics introduced Servi Q as its most compact service robot, designed for narrow restaurant…
• 2025-01-24 - Acquisition - Bear Robotics becomes majority-owned LG subsidiary after call-option exercise - LG Electronics exercised a call option to acquire an additional 30 percent stake in Bear Robotics.
• 2024-11-18 - Partnership - LG Energy Solution Signs MoU with Bear Robotics to Become Exclusive Supplier of Cylindrical Batteries - LG Energy Solution and Bear Robotics signed an MoU making LG the exclusive supplier of 2…
• 2024-10-28 - Product Launch - Bear Robotics introduces Carti 100 for logistics and material handling - Bear Robotics introduced Carti 100 as an autonomous mobile robot for warehouses, factories and industrial spaces.
• 2024-03-12 - Funding - Bear Robotics receives USD 60M strategic investment from LG Electronics - LG Electronics invested USD 60 million in Bear Robotics through a stock purchase agreement.
• 2023-03-06 - Product Launch - Bear Robotics introduces Servi Plus hospitality robot - Bear Robotics introduced Servi Plus as a higher-capacity service robot for food running, drink delivery and bussing workflows.
• 2022-03-15 - Funding - Bear Robotics raises USD 81M Series B - IMM led the round with participation from Cleveland Avenue and existing investors.

Team

• John Ha - Co-founder and CEO

Relationships

• Kinisi - Acquirer - Bear Robotics signed a definitive agreement to acquire Kinisi Robotics, adding KR1 humanoid manipulation and Physical AI model work to Bear's platform.

Context tags

• Restaurant service robot builder - Peer Group
• Indoor service delivery - Workflow
• Service robot OEM - Stack Layer
• Restaurant food running - Workflow
• Service and public venues - Customer Environment
• Hospitality venues - Customer Environment

Record / Articles

• 2023-01-01 - Bear Robotics is building Servi Plus into restaurant service fleets - Servi Plus, 40 kg tray capacity, and Bear Universe fleet control give Bear Robotics a restaurant service automation path. - Korthos: /re…