Austin funding news: Artificial intelligence and real estate top recent local investments

Austin-based robotics company Diligent Robotics has secured $3 million in seed funding, according to company database Crunchbase, topping the city's recent funding headlines. The cash infusion was announced Oct. 1 and led by Ubiquity Ventures. According to its Crunchbase profile, "Diligent Robotics [creates] robot assistants that assist people with chores... Moxi is our hospital robot assistant that helps clinical teams with their routine, non-patient facing tasks so they have more time for patient care." The three-year-old startup has raised two previous funding rounds, including a $2.1 million seed round in 2018. The round brings total funding raised by Austin companies in artificial intelligence over the past month to $35 million.