Diligent Robotics

Diligent Robotics builds mobile manipulation robots for hospitals and care environments. Its Moxi robot helps clinical teams with non-patient-facing delivery tasks such as moving supplies, medications and lab items, reducing routine transport work for nurses and hospital staff.

Market context

Diligent Robotics is one of the most widely deployed healthcare robotics companies, with real-world usage across hospitals in the United States.

Products

Moxi

Facts

Website: https://www.diligentrobots.com
HQ: Austin, United States
Founded: 2017
Segment: Healthcare
Known funding rounds: 4

Funding

2023-09-21 - Series B - $25M - Diligent raises $25M to scale its nursing robot deployments - source: diligentrobots.com
2022-04-11 - Series B - $30M - Diligent Robotics raises over $30M Series B - source: diligentrobots.com
2020-03-20 - $10M - Diligent Robotics raises $10M round led by DNX Ventures - source: techcrunch.com
2019-12-04 - Seed - $3M - Diligent Robotics launches Moxi and raises $3M seed round - source: diligentrobots.com

Investors

DNX Ventures - Lead - Vc - 3 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2020-03-20 - latest 2023-09-21
Next Coast Ventures - Participant - Vc - 3 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2019-12-04 - latest 2023-09-21
True Ventures - Lead - Vc - 3 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2019-12-04 - latest 2023-09-21
Boom Capital - Participant - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2019-12-04 - latest 2022-04-11
Ubiquity Ventures - Lead - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2019-12-04 - latest 2022-04-11
Canaan - Lead - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-09-21
Northwestern Medicine Innovation - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-09-21
Boot64 Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-04-11
Cedars-Sinai Health Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-04-11
E14 Fund - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-04-11
Gaingels - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-04-11
Tiger Global - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-04-11
Capital Factory - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2019-12-04
Grit Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2019-12-04
Pathbreaker Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2019-12-04

Hospital service robot company

Diligent Robotics develops Moxi, a hospital service robot that supports clinical staff by transporting supplies, medications and lab items.

Target environment: Hospitals, clinical corridors, nursing units, pharmacies, labs and healthcare logistics environments.
Deployment model: Hospital robot deployment using Moxi robots, service workflows and integration with clinical operations.
Customer context: Hospitals, nurses, clinical operations teams, health systems and care facilities facing staff workload pressure.
Workflow context: Supply delivery, medication transport, lab sample movement, clinical errands, staff support and hospital workflow automation.
Commercial maturity: Commercial healthcare robotics company with Moxi robots deployed in hospital settings.
Market position: Healthcare service robotics company focused on practical hospital workflow automation.
Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on hospital integration, staff acceptance, safety, elevator and door access, robot uptime and measurable workload relief.
Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes hospital service robots, clinical logistics, indoor delivery robots and healthcare automation.
Source confidence: high

Events

2026-01-27 - Acquisition - Serve Robotics Completes $29M Acquisition of Diligent Robotics - • Serve Robotics completed its acquisition of Diligent Robotics on January 27, 2026, in a stock transaction valued at $29 million, with an additional potential earn-out of up to $5.3 million. • Diligent Robotics, founded in 2017 by Andrea Thomaz and Vivian Ch…
2025-10-14 - Deployment - Diligent Robotics expands Moxi into senior living - Diligent Robotics said it was expanding beyond hospitals into the senior living market The company said it planned to work with three to five senior living facilities The expansion was presented as an extension of Moxi deployments beyond hospital settings
2025-07-16 - Deployment - Diligent Robotics' Moxi robots complete 300,000 pharmacy deliveries - • Diligent Robotics announced that its Moxi robots have completed over 300,000 pharmacy deliveries in U.S. • hospitals as of May 2025. • The highest-volume sites are conducting more than 900 deliveries per month.
2024-11-14 - Capability - Moxi reaches 100000 autonomous elevator rides - Diligent Robotics marked more than 100000 autonomous elevator trips completed by Moxi The milestone reflected continued autonomous hospital delivery operations The company stated Moxi was conducting deliveries in hospital environments at the time
2023-09-21 - Funding - Diligent raises $25M to scale its nursing robot deployments - Diligent announced a $25M raise to expand deployments of its Moxi nursing-assistant robot across health systems. The company says the funding will support product development and broader rollout with hospital partners. The financing supports continued product…
2022-04-11 - Funding - Diligent Robotics raises over $30M Series B - Diligent Robotics announced it closed over $30 million in Series B funding The company said total investment raised to date was nearly $50 million The financing was described as supporting deployment of collaborative robots across healthcare systems
2021-11-29 - Deployment - Cedars-Sinai deploys Moxi robots in hospital operations - Cedars-Sinai implemented Moxi robots to support nursing staff with logistical tasks The hospital deployed twin Moxi robots in operational use The deployment covered routine transport and retrieval work inside the hospital
2020-03-20 - Funding - Diligent Robotics raises $10M round led by DNX Ventures - Diligent Robotics raised $10 million in new funding DNX Ventures led the round The financing brought total funding at the time to $15.75 million
2019-12-04 - Funding - Diligent Robotics launches Moxi and raises $3M seed round - Diligent Robotics announced the market launch of Moxi The company also announced a $3 million seed financing The seed round was co-led by True Ventures and Ubiquity Ventures

Team

Andrea Thomaz - Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer - Diligent describes her as a recognized social robotics expert with awards and public research leadership.
Vivian Chu - Co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer - Co-founder involved in Diligent's healthcare service robot product direction and human-facing robot design.

Relationships

Serve Robotics - Subsidiary - Diligent Robotics is a subsidiary of Serve Robotics.
Serve Robotics - Acquisition - Serve Robotics completed $29M acquisition of Diligent Robotics (Jan 27, 2026).

Customers and deployments

Deployment Event - 1 source-backed deployment event - 2025-10-14 - Diligent Robotics expands Moxi into senior living - source posture: Third Party Reported
Deployed Robot Count - 2 Moxi robots at Cedars-Sinai - 2021-11-29 - Cedars-Sinai - hospital logistics - Cedars-Sinai deployed two Moxi robots to support hospital logistics and reduce routine transport workload for nurse…

Articles

2026-01-20 - Diligent Robotics is turning Moxi hospital robots into a clinical logistics layer - A Serve Robotics acquisition, 1.25 million hospital deliveries, and Moxi 2.0 roadmap give Diligent a clinical logistics fo…

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