Diligent Robotics collects $3M seed funding, launches autonomous robot assistants for hospitals

Diligent Robotics, maker of an autonomous robot assistant for hospitals, has raised $3 million in seed funding. The raise was headed by True Ventures and Ubiquity Ventures, as well as Next Coast Ventures, Capital Factory, Pathbreaker Ventures, Boom Capital, Grit Ventures and other unnamed angel investors. This adds to another $2.1 million round announced back in the beginning of 2018, as well as a $725,000 National Science Foundation grant. This week's funding news was complemented with an announcement that the startup's hospital robot, called Moxi, is exiting beta testing and has entered market with its first official rollout in a Texas Hospital. While Diligent Robotics' broad aim is to develop robotic assistants for a range of chores or activities, the company has so far focused on healthcare use cases for its technology with Moxi.