Bedestrian

Market context

Bedestrian designs autonomous delivery and mobility robots for hospitals, factories, warehouses and other facilities. Its vertically integrated systems combine indoor-outdoor navigation, voice and vision perception, modular storage and hybrid autonomy backed by human teleoperators.

Facts

• Website: https://www.bedestrian.com/
• HQ: Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
• Founded: 2017
• Segment: Delivery
• Known funding rounds: 1

Funding

• 2023-11-14 - Michigan Mobility Funding Platform grant - $90K - Michigan awards Bedestrian $90,000 for hospital-delivery pilot - source: michigan.gov

Events

• 2023-11-14 - Award - Michigan awards Bedestrian $90,000 for hospital-delivery pilot - The planned deployment would move chemotherapy medications from a hospital pharmacy laboratory to cancer-centre clinics in Dearborn. The pilot was designed to test corridor navigation, operation around people and human-machine interactions for loading and ret…

Operations / Deployments

• 2023-11-14 - Award - Michigan awards Bedestrian $90,000 for hospital-delivery pilot - The planned deployment would move chemotherapy medications from a hospital pharmacy laboratory to cancer-centre clinics in Dearborn. The pilot was designed to test corridor navigation, operation around people and human-machine interactions for loading and ret…

Team

• S. Yazi - Lead Mechanical Systems - Leads mechanical-systems work for Bedestrian's delivery robots.
• A. Badour - Lead Logistics/UI Software - Leads logistics and user-interface software work.
• A. Cofield - Lead Robotics Systems - Leads robotics-systems work.
• R. Sirini - Lead Software Services - Leads software-services work.
• Tim Mere - Business Development - Supports business development.
• Shadi T. Mere - Founder and CEO - Sets company direction for autonomous delivery and mobility systems.
• Dr. Robert Dean - President

Relationships

• Foxglove - Robot Observability Supplier - Foxglove supplies robot observability and data tooling used by Bedestrian.