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A report by the Institute of Medicine highlights the central role of nursing in patient safety and documents that nurses are increasingly spending more time on non-nursing activities
Fremont, CA: Artificial Intelligence company Diligent Robotics raised USD 10 million in Series A round of financing led by DNX Ventures, with participation from existing investors True Ventures, Ubiquity Ventures, and Next Coast Ventures, and new investors E14 Fund, Promus Ventures, and Grit Ventures. The Texas-based company builds intelligent robots for the future of work. The company's first commercialized product is a hospital robot assistant named Moxi, designed to take some of the busywork off the hands of clinical staff, so they can spend more time focused on patient care.
"We envision a future powered by robots that work seamlessly with human teams," said Dr. Andrea Thomaz, co-founder, and chief executive officer of Diligent Robotics. "We are enabling our hospital customers to redesign workflows for their frontline teams, letting nurses make full use of their specialized skills, letting robots handle tedious fetching tasks and other routine work." A report by the Institute of Medicine highlights the central role of nursing in patient safety and documents that nurses are increasingly spending more time on non-nursing activities. As per reports, over 30 percent of hospitals cannot find enough candidates to fill open clinical positions, while clinician turnover is at the highest levels at almost 20 percent.
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"We build artificial intelligence that enables service robots to collaborate with people and adapt to dynamic human environments," said Dr. Vivian Chu, co-founder, and chief technology officer of Diligent Robotics. "Diligent Robotics is delivering a new class of hospital service robots by building a solution that can autonomously navigate a hospital to perform collaborative tasks with the nursing staff." Diligent Robotics was founded in 2017 and has quickly become the leader in the social robotics sector as the first company to build a robot with social intelligence and mobile manipulation capabilities that helps healthcare staff in their work environments.
In 2019, the company launched Moxi into the hospital market and was named one of TIME Magazine's Best Inventions 2019. "As the current pandemic and circumstance has shown, the real heroes are our healthcare providers," said Q Motiwala, partner at DNX Ventures and newly named board member for Diligent Robotics, "Diligent Robotics has built a hospital robot assistant, Moxi, to help solve one of healthcare provider's biggest challenges: nursing shortages." The funds from the investment round will be used towards scaling up the company's solution to a broader customer base as well as their continued investment in product strategy and development in both hardware and software.
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