{"id":185031,"date":"2024-03-13T20:22:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T01:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/bear-robotics-a-robot-waiter-startup-just-picked-up-60m-from-lg"},"modified":"2024-03-13T20:22:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T01:22:26","slug":"bear-robotics-a-robot-waiter-startup-just-picked-up-60m-from-lg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/bear-robotics-a-robot-waiter-startup-just-picked-up-60m-from-lg","title":{"rendered":"Bear Robotics, a robot waiter startup, just picked up $60M from LG"},"content":{"rendered":"

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LG Electronics may no longer be a household name in smartphones, but it still sees a big future in gadgets like robots. Today, the company confirmed<\/a> a $60 million investment in Bear Robotics<\/a>, the California startup that makes artificial intelligence\u2013powered server robots (autonomous tray towers on wheels that are meant to replace waiters) for restaurants and other venues. With the investment, LG Electronics becomes Bear\u2019s largest shareholder.<\/p>\n

Bear\u2019s last fundraise in 2022 valued the company at just over $490 million post-money, per PitchBook<\/a> data. It\u2019s not clear what the valuation is for this latest investment, but the last year has not been a great one<\/a> for startups in the space.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, the current vogue for all things AI, and the general advances that are coming with that, are giving robotics players a fillip \u2014 see yesterday\u2019s Covariant news<\/a>, for another example. Still, it\u2019s not clear what Bear hopes to tackle next with the basic trays-on-wheels form factor that it has adopted for its flagship Servi robots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LG Electronics may no longer be a household name in smartphones, but it still sees a big future in gadgets like robots. Today, the company confirmed a $60 million investment in Bear Robotics, the California startup that makes artificial intelligence\u2013powered server robots (autonomous tray towers on wheels that are meant to replace waiters) for restaurants [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}