Diligent brings in $30M to place Moxi in hospitals

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Diligent Robotics co-founders Andrea Thomaz and Vivian Chu with Moxi. | Supply: Diligent Robotics

Diligent Robotics introduced in $30 million in Collection B funding, in response to an announcement the corporate made at this time. The corporate’s flagship product, Moxi, is a robotic that performs duties for nurses to allow them to spend extra time with sufferers. 

“We’re proud to have the complete assist of our previous buyers and welcome our new companions who joined throughout our Collection B increase,” Dr. Andrea Thomaz, co-founder of Diligent Robotics, stated. “This new spherical of funding will assist us scale the corporate to fulfill the unbelievable demand for our healthcare service robotic. Because of the assist of our buyers and the Diligent workforce, we’re centered on increasing automated assist for medical groups so nurses and clinicians can concentrate on duties that matter most, affected person care.”

Tiger World led the funding spherical, which additionally included Diligent’s earlier buyers True Ventures, DNX Enterprise, Ubiquity Ventures, E14 Fund, Subsequent Coast Ventures, Growth Capital and Gaingels. New buyers within the firm embody Cedars-Sinai Well being Ventures. Two Moxi robots had been first deployed at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in LA in September 2021. 

The corporate’s final spherical of funding was a $10M Collection A spherical in 2020. Diligent has raised a complete of $45.9M thus far (supply: Crunchbase).

“Diligent Robotics’ participation within the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator program led to the exploration of our workforce testing this resolution with our medical groups,” Dr. David Marshall, chief nursing government at Cedars-Sinai, stated. “Utilizing the robotic to alleviate front-line well being care employees from point-to-point supply and retrieval duties has been profitable in our unique launch. Employees members have instructed me that provides them extra time for direct affected person care.”

Diligent first unveiled Moxi in 2018 as a collaborative robotic that would help in hospitals by delivering provides, medicines or lab samples. Right now Moxi is ready to ship teleboxes, handle the “don’t tube” medicines and decide up affected person’s private objects. 

To name on Moxi, nurses can merely textual content or name from a hospital issued cellphone, and the robotic will reply inside 5 minutes with a standing replace and an estimated arrival time. Whereas Moxi was created to make hospitals extra environment friendly, it additionally goals to enhance morale. Moxi makes use of AI, machine studying expertise and social engineering to work together with individuals. Moxi waves when it sees somebody new, and even poses for selfies.

“We began implementing Moxi into our medical workflows in December and deliberate on going by way of a trial section to find out if the expertise can be useful to our employees,” Cody Blankenship, vice chairman of efficiency enchancment at Mary Washington Healthcare, stated. “Straight away, we may see the affect Moxi made on the effectivity of our employees and the way morale instantly elevated. We had been so impressed with what Moxi took off our workforce’s fingers, we selected so as to add much more robots to our fleet.”

Diligent plans to make use of the newest spherical of funding to optimize provide chain and design groups for quicker deployments. The corporate additionally hopes to boost interoperability and additional integrations with current hospital infrastructure, digital well being information and medical communications.