USA – ViaBot, a San Francisco, CA-based robotics startup bringing maintenance and management automation to large properties, publicly launched with $6.1m in funding.
Backers included Baseline Ventures, Morado Ventures, Grit Ventures and SOSV.Founded by Gregg Ratanaphanyarat and Andre Ding in 2016, ViaBot is a robotics company bringing maintenance and management automation to large properties. The company’s RUNO robots are designed to clean and automatically dump debris as well as autonomous battery hot swapping. At the same time it performs this work, they are also able to do soft security monitoring, a program currently in beta. RUNO’s built-in sensors scan and escalate suspicious activity to security teams; for example, if a car has been parked in the same place for several days, it will trip RUNO’s flags. The robots have multiple cameras and sonar sensors and use GPS to help navigate.ViaBot leveraged the Yolo image network, running images specialized on recycling to train the system to identify objects that should be recycled.As part of the launch, the company also disclosed a key strategic partnership with Cushman & Wakefield which has deployed ViaBot’s RUNO robots to properties in the Bay Area for sweeping and security services.10/05/2021
