Serve Robotics to Buy Diligent Robotics to Expand Autonomy Platform Into Hospitals

• Serve will acquire hospital robotics company, Diligent Robotics, its first move into indoor environments.
• Diligent’s Moxi robot has completed over 1.25 million deliveries across 25 hospitals and will continue operating as a Serve subsidiary.

Serve Robotics has agreed to acquire Diligent Robotics in a stock deal valued at $29 million, with a possible $5.3 million earn-out. Serve Robotics develops autonomous sidewalk delivery robots, while Diligent Robotics builds AI-powered assistant robots for hospitals. The deal marks Serve’s first move into indoor environments.

Founded in 2017, Diligent Robotics builds autonomous robots that assist hospital staff with routine tasks. Its flagship robot, Moxi, has completed over 1.25 million deliveries across more than 25 U.S. hospitals, in what it says is one of the largest mobile manipulation deployments in healthcare. Moxi is powered by the NVIDIA Jetson platform, trained in simulation, and designed to operate safely in busy clinical settings. Customers include Northwestern Medicine, ChristianaCare, and Rochester General Hospital.

“Diligent was founded to help healthcare teams do more with their limited resources,” said Andrea Thomaz, CEO of Diligent Robotics, in a press release. “By joining Serve, we can build on the autonomy and AI we’ve deployed across live hospital fleets and scale it faster, enabling more intelligent, capable robots in care environments. Together, we’re unlocking the next phase of practical, real-world robotics and advancing a people-plus-robots model that prioritizes human impact.”

The deal aims to combine Serve’s sidewalk delivery robots with Diligent’s in-hospital systems under a single autonomy stack. The shared platform is expected to speed up deployment, improve performance, and extend Serve’s reach indoors. Diligent will continue operating as a subsidiary of Serve under CEO Andrea Thomaz. Existing Moxi deployments generate $200,000 to $400,000 in annual revenue per hospital.

🌀 Tom’s Take:

This acquisition gives Serve access to a proven healthcare robotics business with real deployments, recurring revenue, and operational data that can strengthen its autonomy platform across environments.

Source: GlobeNewswire / Serve Robotics