内容来源：https://aibusiness.com/robotics/serve-robotics-acquires-hospital-robot-company

内容总结：

谷歌云赞助发布：服务机器人公司进军医疗领域，收购Diligent Robotics布局室内自主平台

由英伟达和优步支持的 sidewalk 配送机器人公司 Serve Robotics 近日宣布，已收购专注于医疗场景的AI机器人初创企业 Diligent Robotics，首次将其自主机器人平台从户外 sidewalk 场景拓展至室内环境。此次收购预计将于今年第一季度末完成。

Diligent Robotics 由麻省理工学院机器人专家 Andrea Thomaz 与佐治亚理工学院专家 Vivian Chu 于2017年联合创立，其核心产品 Moxi 是一款基于英伟达嵌入式硬件与软件生态的医院辅助机器人，目前已在美国超过25个医疗系统中投入应用。该公司累计获得超过7500万美元风险投资，收购后将作为 Serve 的子公司继续独立运营。

Serve 公司总裁兼首席运营官 Touraj Parang 表示，医疗环境对机器人的可靠性、安全性和人机协同能力要求极高，而这正是 Serve 在复杂户外场景中已验证的核心能力。Diligent 的室内机器人技术与此形成互补。双方将基于统一的自主系统与人工智能架构，构建数据共享的“学习飞轮”——室内与室外机器人通过同一物理AI平台相互学习，持续提升系统整体智能水平。

Parang 指出，此次收购不仅是 Serve 进军高价值医疗领域的战略举措，更是构建通用自主机器人基础设施的关键一步。未来，该平台可拓展至餐饮服务、药房、零售等多个需要提升人力效率的场景。公司长远愿景是让自主机器人技术成为社会基础设施的一部分，无缝融入日常生活。

此次合作标志着自主机器人技术正从单一场景应用向跨场景、可复用的系统化平台演进，为人工智能在实体场景中的规模化落地提供了新的实践路径。

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Serve Robotics公司近日宣布收购Diligent Robotics，标志着其自动驾驶平台首次从人行道场景延伸至室内环境。这家获得英伟达和优步投资的 sidewalk 送货机器人研发企业，正将业务版图拓展至医疗健康这一全新领域。

本周该公司透露，已收购总部位于德克萨斯州的初创企业Diligent Robotics。后者开发的Moxi是一款基于人工智能技术的医院辅助机器人。本次交易的具体财务条款未予披露。

收购完成后，Diligent Robotics将作为Serve的子公司继续运营，仍由首席执行官安德烈亚·托马兹领导。交易预计于今年第一季度末完成。

尽管Serve此前专注于户外场景，但双方在联合声明中表示，此次收购将构建"通用的自动驾驶与人工智能技术栈"，加速辅助机器人在各行业的规模化部署。Serve总裁兼首席运营官图拉杰·帕朗向AI Business指出，医疗健康是机器人应用的"高价值场景"，为企业扩张提供了绝佳机遇。

"医疗机构需要机器人具备可靠性、安全性及人机协同无缝运作能力，"帕朗表示，"这正是我们户外自动驾驶配送车队在高密度城市环境中已验证的核心能力。Diligent的室内解决方案与此形成了完美互补。"

自2017年由麻省理工学院机器人专家托马兹与佐治亚理工学院机器人专家薇薇安·朱共同创立以来，Diligent已获得超过7500万美元风险投资。其Moxi机器人依托英伟达的嵌入式硬件与软件生态系统，目前已在美国超过25个医疗系统中投入应用，包括西北医学、克里斯蒂安娜医疗和罗切斯特综合医院等机构。

帕朗透露，正是这些实际应用成果促使Serve决定收购Diligent。双方计划构建协同学习生态，通过共享数据平台实现室内外机器人的经验互通。

"此次收购创造了跨越室内外场景的自主学习飞轮，"他解释道，"Serve与Diligent将基于统一的自动驾驶与人工智能技术栈运作，每台机器人都向同一实体AI平台贡献数据并相互学习。"

他补充道："我们的终极愿景是建立统一共享平台，使机器人能在复杂人机共存环境中自主导航。这极具挑战性——机器人获取的数据越丰富，经历的实际场景越多，整个系统的智能化程度就越高。"

尽管当前重点聚焦于医院和养老机构等医疗场景，帕朗强调该平台具有更广泛的应用前景："我们为室内外自动驾驶研发的全栈实体AI平台，可应用于餐饮服务、药房、零售等众多领域—— essentially anywhere robots can help make labor more productive and effective。"

他将这些拓展应用视为构建普适性机器人系统的关键步骤："长远来看，我们致力于打造适用于社交环境的统一自动驾驶技术栈、共享数据飞轮及机器人操作系统。我们的终极愿景是让自动驾驶技术成为社会基础设施，融入日常生活，在更多领域创造价值。"

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The acquisition of Diligent Robotics marks the first expansion of Serve’s autonomy platform from sidewalks to indoor environments.
Serve Robotics, the Nvidia and Uber-backed company developing sidewalk delivery robots, is expanding into a new field: healthcare.
The vendor said this week that it had acquired Diligent Robotics, a Texas-based startup developing an AI-powered hospital-assistant robot called Moxi. Serve did not disclose the financial terms of the deal.
Diligent Robotics will continue its operations as a subsidiary of Serve, under the leadership of CEO Andrea Thomaz.
The deal is expected to close later in the first quarter.
The acquisition marks the first time Serve has expanded into indoor robotic applications, though in a statement, the companies said they see a “common autonomy and AI stack,” accelerating deployment and scalability of assistive robots across industries.
Touraj Parang, Serve’s president and COO, told AI Business healthcare is a “high-impact environment” for robotics, making it a prime opportunity for expansion.
“Healthcare facilities demand reliability, safety and seamless operations around people,” Parang said. “These are all capabilities we’ve proven at scale in dense urban environments with our outdoor autonomous delivery fleet. Diligent brings the indoor counterpart to that.”
Since its founding in 2017 by MIT roboticist Thomaz and Georgia Tech roboticist Vivian Chu, Diligent has raised more than $75 million in venture capital.
The company’s Moxi robot, powered by AI giant Nvidia’s embedded hardware and software ecosystem, is deployed in more than 25 healthcare systems across the U.S., including Northwestern Medicine, ChristianaCare, and Rochester General Hospital.
This real-world validation, Parang said, is what motivated Serve to acquire Diligent. Together, the companies envision a symbiotic learning model in which indoor and outdoor robots will learn from each other on a shared data platform.
“This acquisition creates a learning flywheel across both indoor and outdoor autonomy,” he said. “Serve and Diligent will operate on a shared autonomy and AI stack, so every robot contributes data to the same physical AI platform and learns from the others.”
“The ultimate vision is a single shared platform that enables robots to navigate around people in complex environments,” he adds. “That’s a very hard problem. The more data you have, and the more real-world situations these robots encounter, the better the entire system becomes.”
While Serve’s immediate focus is on healthcare environments, including hospitals and elder care facilities, Parang says the platform has broader applications well beyond that.
“The same full-stack physical AI platform we’re developing for indoor and outdoor autonomy can be applied across many settings,” he says. “That includes food services, pharmacies, retail – basically anywhere robots can help make labor more productive and effective.”
Parang framed these expanded applications as steps in a broader push to create a system that supports widespread robotic use.
“Over time, we see Serve's and Diligent’s robots operating on a single autonomy stack, a shared data flywheel, and one operating system for robots that work in social environments,” Parang says. “Our ultimate vision is for autonomy to become infrastructure, part of everyday life, helping wherever it can.”