Norbert Health raises $14mn for autonomous robotic nursing assistants

Norbert Health, a physical AI control system that turns robotic hardware platforms into autonomous nursing assistants, has raised USD 14mn for its Series A round supported by William A. Marino with Cardinal Group, with participation from Exor Seeds, CareIT, and angel investors including Alexis Le-Quoc and Olivier Pomel (Datadog), Saeju Jeong (Noom) and Thomas Clozel (Owkin).

The new capital will be used to deepen Norbert’s clinical skill library, advance regulatory clearances and expand deployments across skilled nursing and into new care settings. Its current development areas include post-fall neurological evaluations, pressure injury prevention protocols, cognitive screening and fall risk assessment.

Healthcare in the US is short close to a million nurses, and more than two million trained nurses no longer want to work bedside because the job keeps getting harder. Robots that assist nurses can help reduce the burden, but only if they have clinical skills. Previous attempts put logistics robots on healthcare floors and never touched the core of a nurse’s work. Norbert-powered robots build clinical skills in the real world, and they are the reliable path to the generic humanoid care helper of tomorrow.
Alex Winter, CEO & Co-founder

The company is responding to a shortage of nurses in the US and is reducing this burden by combining robots that are already able to walk, navigate and carry with the clinical care and related skills that Norbert supplies in the form of the clinical brain and voice that converts a mobile robot into a working member of the care team. So far, robots powered by Nobert make rounds, capture vitals without contact, run assessments, handle patient requests and document each encounter into the EHR.

To date, Norbert Health has raised a total of USD 19mn.