Known for autonomous robots in hospitals, Diligent Robotics is bringing its platform to senior care communities next

Diligent Robotics, the category-defining robotics company behind hospital robot assistant Moxi, today announced it has been accepted into the AgeTech Collaborative™ from AARP accelerator, an 8-week program designed to elevate promising early-stage AgeTech startups. This marks a major milestone for Diligent Robotics as it expands into senior living and long-term care communities.

To date, Diligent Robotics has powered over 1.25 million deliveries of medications, lab samples, and medical supplies across leading hospitals and health systems including Northwestern Medicine, Providence Saint John's Health Center, and Rochester General Hospital. Its flagship mobile manipulation platform Moxi navigates complex, crowded, human environments to free staff for more high-value clinical tasks instead of locating supplies.

The company’s entry into senior care comes as the sector faces rising labor shortages — 18 million are expected to exit this field by 2040 just as additional 2.5 million jobs will be created, according to Argentum — and growing demand for technology that supports staff efficiency and quality of care.

“Building on the trust we are establishing in hospitals, expanding into senior living and long-term care is a huge milestone for Diligent,” said Andrea Thomaz, CEO & Co-Founder 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. It’s a powerful step in showing just how broadly our technology can scale to improve care delivery.”

The AgeTech Collaborative from AARP accelerates innovation in technologies that improve how we age. Through its participation, Diligent Robotics will receive direct go-to-market support and will focus on product discovery to identify where assistive robots like Moxi can have the most impact for older adults. This depth of understanding customer needs is core to Diligent Robotics’ emphasis on first determining the problems that technology should solve, then bringing the solution to those who need it most.

Through this expansion, Diligent Robotics will also be able to continue pushing forward physical AI progress, while bringing more dexterous manipulation to the long-term care market.

About Diligent Robotics

Founded in 2017, Diligent Robotics is an Austin-based AI company that creates socially-intelligent, AI-native mobile manipulation robots to drive workflow efficiency. Diligent's first robot assistant, Moxi, operates in 25+ hospitals across the U.S. to help nurses with routine tasks (such as delivering meds and lab samples) to free them up for patient care and prevent burnout. Moxi has already saved hospital staff nearly 600K hours and completed over 1 million tasks successfully.

Founded by social robotics experts Andrea Thomaz and Vivian Chu, Diligent Robotics is proud to be at the forefront of creating robots that incorporate mobile manipulation, social intelligence and human-guided learning capabilities. 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.” For more information, visit www.diligentrobots.com.

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"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."