""This is a kind of a classic example of a prepared mind meets opportunity," Kashani said. "Robots that are moving among people is the broader opportunity for us. Once you solve the problem, which is how to get robots to seamlessly move among people as autonomous machines, then you can bring it to a lot of other environments. We knew that we wanted to do this someday.""
""We love the team; they have very similar DNA to us, which is, rather than bui"
Serve Robotics acquired Diligent Robotics, the maker of hospital assistant robot Moxi, valuing Diligent's common stock at $29 million. Diligent Robotics was founded in 2017 by Andrea Thomaz and Vivian Chu and raised more than $75 million in venture capital, including a $25 million round in 2023. Serve Robotics originated inside Postmates in 2017, continued after Uber's acquisition, spun off in 2021, and went public via reverse merger in April 2024. Serve CEO Ali Kashani described the acquisition as aligned with last-mile delivery and robots that can navigate among people while Diligent sought to scale.
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