The Rundown Robotic: Serve Roboticws moves into hospital bots

Posted on January 22, 2026 by michelleclarke2015
 Serve Robotics moves into hospital bots
Image source: Serve Robotics
The Rundown: Serve Robotics is pushing beyond burrito runs into the far messier world of hospital logistics, agreeing to buy Austin-based Diligent Robotics in an all-stock deal valuing the startup at about $29M.
The details:
The deal extends Serve from sidewalk delivery to hospital logistics, but CEO Ali Kashani frames it as a natural expansion of the same autonomy stack. Diligent’s Moxi robots are already one of the largest deployed hospital service fleets in the U.S., with roughly 100 robots across more than 25 hospitals. Serve plans to keep Diligent operating independently while sharing software, autonomy tools, and data so that “every robot learns from every robot.” Serve’s sidewalk fleet, which runs on both DoorDash and Uber Eats networks, scaled from 100 to more than 2K robots over the past year.
Why it matters: This deal turns Serve from a niche food-delivery player into one of the first companies running a shared autonomy stack across both public sidewalks and hospital corridors — a real-world stress test for “physical AI,” the bet that one platform can learn to navigate any human-occupied space and port those lessons everywhere.
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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