Diligent raises $25 million to triple its nursing robot’s reach

The pandemic had a profound impact on countless careers, but few jobs were hit quite like nursing. As hospitals overflowed, staff was forced to take on impossible long shifts, risking their own health in the process. In many ways, it was the perfect environment to introduce a robot like Diligent’s Moxi, a system designed to offer a couple of helping hands to overworked healthcare providers.

“When the pandemic hit in 2020 and then flared back up in 2021, the nature of the pandemic allowed Moxi to fit right in and help its co-workers,” co-founder and CEO Andrea Thomaz tells TechCrunch. Once the initial COVID wave calmed down, Diligent became even busier as hospitals recognized they were heading toward a crisis with their staff and began to request demos of the robot, which was solving their problems in innovative ways. Today, hospitals are still in crisis mode as healthcare worker turnover and burnout are at an all-time high. Every hospital system we have talked to, especially this year, is looking to reinvent their workforce and agree it will need to look different in the future.”

Diligent expects to have north of 100 Moxi units deployed across 22 hospital systems in the U.S. by end of year. If you’ve visited a hospital during the pandemic, you may well have seen a unit carrying supplies and riding the elevator.

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