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Refraction AI is a robotics company founded 2019, based in United States, developing 1 robot primarily in the Delivery category.
CAPITAL & EVIDENCE
Refraction AI has raised US$4.2M across 1 confirmed round and has 2 known customers, none yet tied to a specific model.
Raised
US$4.2M
across 1 confirmed round · latest Mar 2021 · Seed
- Mar 2021· Seed· US$4.2M· led by Pillar VC· The Robot Report ↗· 3 outletsCorrect this round
Confirmed rounds recorded from January 2017. Every amount links to its source.
Correct this →Shipped
2 known customers — no deployment yet tied to a specific model
Used by
Named in a public source that did not say which model
- Ann Arbor· United Statesmlive.com
- Chick-fil-A· United Statesfreightwaves.com
Autonomous delivery robots for practical last-mile food delivery
Refraction AI builds the REV-1, an autonomous last-mile delivery robot designed for street operation and food delivery use cases. The company is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and has worked with local restaurants and grocery stores for campus and nearby-neighborhood delivery, including in snow and rain conditions.
Active products
1
RoboIndex
43.56
RoboScore 43.56 + Momentum 0.00
Company facts
- HQ
- Ann Arbor, United States
- Founded
- 2019 · 7 yrs
- Stage
- Seed · Mar 2021
- Website
- www.refraction.ai
RoboScore
43.56 RoboScore + 0.00 Momentum· Speculative — thin 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.
4 of 6 factors known. How it's calculated
On the company boards
- #36 of 43·Delivery·best robot 48.55 + depth 0.00 + news 0.00 = total 48.55
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
Refraction AI closed a $4.2 million seed round led by Pillar VC.
Refraction AI was launched in Ann Arbor to develop practical autonomous delivery robots.
Press coverage
- Refraction AI raises $4.2M delivery robots
The Robot Report
- REV-1 robot takes on snow for last-mile delivery
FreightWaves
- Autonomous robot REV-1 delivers lunch in Ann Arbor
Detroit Free Press · Feb 2020
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.
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