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Knightscope is a robotics company founded 2013, based in United States, developing 4 robots primarily in the Security category.
CAPITAL & EVIDENCE
Knightscope has raised US$25.0M across 1 confirmed round and has 1 deployment on record, none maker-verified.
Raised
US$25.0M
across 1 confirmed round · latest Jan 2018
- Jan 2018· US$25.0M· investors: Konica Minolta, Bright Success Capital· Business Insider ↗· 2 outletsCorrect this round
Confirmed rounds recorded from January 2017. Every amount links to its source.
Correct this →Shipped
7named customers · 1 tied to a specific robot
none maker-verified · on 1 robot
- San Antonio International Airport· United States· K5s24.q4cdn.com ↗
Used by
Named in a public source that did not say which model
- NYPD/MTA· United Statessecuritysystemsnews.com
- Wingate· United Statesnasdaq.com
- NYPD· United Statesbusinesswire.com
- Department of Defense· United Statesusaspending.gov
- Crocker Parkmorningjournal.com
- ABM· United Statesbusinesswire.com
Autonomous security robots and AI for public safety operations
Knightscope builds and deploys autonomous security robots, including the K5 and K7, for monitoring commercial properties and public spaces. Its systems are used for patrol, incident detection, and remote monitoring in sectors such as retail, parking facilities, campuses, and government sites, with operations centered in the United States.
Company facts
- HQ
- Mountain View, United States
- Founded
- 2013 · 13 yrs
- Website
- knightscope.com
RoboScore
60.59 RoboScore + 0.00 Momentum· Strong evidence
Products 65%, Depth 5%, Evidence 30% set the number, and every rated company has all three. Attention has no weight of its own — it is one of the two things Evidence is built from, and it can only ever add. Activity and Readiness describe the brand but never move it. A value we don't have reads —, never zero. Momentum is independently collected news coverage, worth at most 15 points and never a deduction — a maker we have heard nothing about keeps its full RoboScore. Claiming or paying moves nothing.
6 of 6 factors known. How it's calculated
On the company boards
- #19 of 36·Security·best robot 49.04 + depth 2.64 + news 0.00 = total 51.68
A board total ranks makers within one category. It is built from the best robot's RoboScore, a capped credit for more ranked robots, and news. It is not this company's RoboIndex above. How boards work
Milestones
Knightscope was founded on April 4, 2013.
Press coverage
In the news
2 events · last 90 days
+0.00momentumof 15 maxRobots vs. the Homeless: Knightscope Robot Deployed by SPCA Displaced by Law
In the news
2 events · last 90 days
Why Knightscope has been in the news, across 7 outlets — collected and classified independently, so a maker cannot add to it. It never changes a robot's RoboScore — the evidence half of the RoboIndex — and it can move a robot up a board by at most 15 points.
Public loss record
US makers file into registers that compel reporting — device adverse events to the FDA, driverless crashes to NHTSA, workplace deaths to OSHA. A maker with no record here has genuinely not had one filed against it.
A filing records that someone reported something. It is not a finding that the robot caused it, and we make no such finding.
Read every filing naming KnightscopeHow this record was collected, register by register
Active products by Knightscope
4 shown| # | Category | Key specs | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | K5 | Security | Payload 180.5 kg·Top speed 2.1 m/s | — | 2013 | 64.9 |
| 2 |  | K5 Autonomous Security Robot (ASR) | Security | Payload 100 kg·Top speed 1.3 m/s | — | 2023 | 49.0 |
| 3 |  | K7 | Security | Runtime 20 hr | $139K | 2026 | 48.3 |
| 4 |  | K7 Autonomous Security Robot (ASR) | Security | — | — | 2025 | 29.7 |
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