Diligent plans to expand use cases for its robots beyond Moxi in healthcare facilities. Source: Diligent Robotics
Diligent Robotics Inc. today said it has been accepted into the AgeTech Collaborative from AARP accelerator, an eight-week program for early-stage AgeTech startups. The provider of the Moxi robot for hospitals said this marks a major milestone as it expands into senior living and long-term care communities.
“Building on the trust we are establishing in hospitals, expanding into senior living and long-term care is a huge milestone for Diligent,” stated Andrea Thomaz, co-founder and CEO of Diligent Robotics. “For years, Moxi has proven its value by reliably supporting clinicians across some of the nation’s leading hospitals.”
“By bringing that same dedication to customers and the future of physical AI into senior care, we can support a new set of care teams facing critical staffing challenges,” she added. “It’s a powerful step in showing just how broadly our technology can scale to improve care delivery.”
Founded in 2017, Diligent Robotics has created the Moxi mobile manipulator to improve healthcare workflow efficiency. The Austin, Texas-based company has deployed the robot in more than 25 hospitals across the U.S. to help nurses with routine tasks to free them up for patient care and prevent burnout.
Moxi continues to make milestones
Moxi has already saved hospital staffers nearly 600,000 hours and completed over 1 million tasks successfully, according to Diligent Robotics. To date, it has completed over 1.25 million deliveries of medications, laboratory samples, and medical supplies across leading hospitals and health systems including Northwestern Medicine, Providence Saint John’s Health Center, and Rochester General Hospital.
Moxi can navigate complex, crowded, human environments to free staff for more high-value clinical tasks instead of locating supplies, said Diligent.
“Diligent Robotics is proud to be at the forefront of creating robots that incorporate mobile manipulation, social intelligence and human-guided learning capabilities,” the company said. “We believe that if we can give people the resources that they need to do the work they care most about, we will transform the meaning of work.”
Editor’s note: Vivian Chu, co-founder and chief innovation officer of Diligent Robotics, will be speaking at RoboBusiness 2025 this week at the Santa Clara Convention Center. She will discuss how real-time adaptation, vision-language agents, and behavior tree recovery help Moxi operate in complex, human-facing environments.
RoboBusiness, the premier event for commercial robotics developers and suppliers, is co-located with DeviceTalks West, which serves the medical device industry. Registration is now open.
Diligent Robotics addresses senior needs
The senior care sector is facing rising labor shortages — 18 million people are expected to exit the field by 2040, just as additional 2.5 million jobs will be created, according to Argentum. As a result, demand is growing for technology that supports staff efficiency and quality of care.
The AgeTech Collaborative from AARP (the American Association for Retired Persons) is intended to accelerate innovation to help people age. Through its participation, Diligent Robotics will receive direct go-to-market support.
The company also plans to identify where assistive robots like Moxi can have the most impact for older adults. Diligent noted that it must first determine the problems that technology should solve, then bring the solution to those who need it most.
Diligent Robotics added that the expansion will enable it to continue pushing toward physical AI progress while bringing more dexterous manipulation to the long-term care market.
This is absolutely needed !!