Service
Savioke, a robot startup founded in 2013 by former Willow Garage staff, raised $2 million from investors including Google Ventures to build a service robot.
A dated step forward on the record · Company-reported
What the source says
“Savioke, founded in 2013, was not strictly a spinoff, but it is nevertheless a Willow Garage off-shoot”
What it means
Relay, from Relay Robotics (formerly Savioke), is at stage 4 of 5 on our ladder: paying customers. Its stage is set by other milestones on its record; this one adds to the history. This line rests on the company's own announcement; no regulator, customer or independent report confirms it in our sources yet.
Human help: Our sources report it working without human help.
More on Relay
- Relay put two robots, named Dash and Daisy, into HCA Florida JFK Hospital in Atlantis, Florida, to carry lab samples, pharmacy orders and medicines.
- Relay launched RelayRx, a hospital delivery robot with twice the storage of earlier models. It said its robots had worked at more than 15 hospital systems and made over 1 million deliveries.
- Savioke said its Relay robots made more than 11,000 hotel guest deliveries in 2015.
- Savioke's Relay robots were delivering items such as toothpaste and coffee to hotel guests, including at the Marriott Los Angeles LAX.