"Diligent Robotics, an Austin-based startup founded in 2017, builds robots for the healthcare space. Its wheeled robot, Moxi, can automate tasks in the hospital, such as delivering lab samples or medical supplies. These are routine but essential chores that Vivian Chu, co-founder of Diligent Robotics, says take precious time away from human staff and patients. "I do think that over time, you're going to very quickly see that the wheel form factor - like two arms, a head, and a wheel - is probably going to be a form factor that ends up covering the majority of what you need," Chu told Business Insider in an interview."
"With more than 90 robots deployed across 25+ hospitals, Chu told BI that Diligent's Moxi robots have carried out over 1.2 million supply deliveries. The company estimates that that equates to about half a million hours of human time saved."
"For Moxi, don't think of a humanoid robot installed with the latest ChatGPT model, carrying out free-flowing dialogue. Chu likes to think of Moxi more as the "minimum viable humanoid" whittled down to focus on specific tasks."
Diligent Robotics builds Moxi, a wheeled humanoid robot designed to automate routine hospital tasks such as delivering lab samples and medical supplies. Moxi focuses on practical task execution rather than conversational intelligence, embodying a "minimum viable humanoid" approach with two arms, a head, and a wheel. More than 90 units operate across 25+ hospitals and have completed over 1.2 million deliveries, saving an estimated half a million human hours. The wheel form factor prioritizes reliability and coverage of common needs, enabling near-term deployment in healthcare while full household humanoid capabilities remain farther off.
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