The verified answer
As of Sep 2026, DEPLOY verifies Bear Robotics: 3 models, 5 deployments across 3 regions, $113.0M raised. 5 sources back the record.
CategoryFood service
Overview
Autonomous food-service robot company; Servi robot deployed in restaurant chains worldwide.. Founded: 2017, Redwood City, California. Founder: John Ha (CEO, ex-Google software engineer).
Product: Servi autonomous service robot for restaurants, hospitality, healthcare - food/beverage delivery and bussing. Funding: Series A $32M (2020, SoftBank); Series B $81M (2022, SoftBank + IMM); total ~$113M. Customers: Pizza Hut, Denny's, Marriott, Compass Group, various hospital systems. Strategic: SoftBank Robotics strategic investor and distribution partner.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 5 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDAcquisitionAcquired by LG Electronics
Key facts
Founded
Founder
Product
Fundingsee investors →
Customers
Strategic
Data & sources
Patent documents
4
Web sources
1
5 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (3)
View all models →Current platform
Servi Mini
Bear Robotics' Servi Mini is a compact food-running and table-bussing service robot for tighter hospitality spaces, using intelligent LiDAR navigation to safely deliver and bus in busy restaurants.
Current platform
Servi Plus
Bear Robotics' Servi Plus is a high-capacity hospitality serving robot carrying up to ~88 lb across up to four extra-large trays or bus tubs; it uses LiDAR and multiple cameras for navigation, with multi-destination delivery and a Mars-rover-inspired suspension for ramps and liquids.
Current platform
Servi
Wheeled food and drink delivery robot for restaurants; autonomous navigation via lidar and camera sensor fusion.
Partnerships
Every company Bear Robotics has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Kinisi Robotics1× joint
- 2LG Electronics1× joint1 total
Most recent
- Bear Robotics acquires Kinisi Robotics2026-06-22with Kinisi Roboticsoperating
- Bear Robotics Series C (2024)2024-03-12with LG Electronicsoperating
Bear Robotics on the deployment map
View the global map5 verified deployments across 3 regions, newest verified Jun 2024. Explore where Bear Robotics's robots are operating, by place and type.
- operationalServi at San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA →West Coast · verified Jun 2024
- operationalServi at South Korea →East Asia · verified Jun 2024
- operationalServi Plus at South Korea (restaurant) →East Asia · verified Jan 2024
- operationalServi at 51+ Chili's locations, 8 US states →verified Oct 2022
- operationalServi at Japan (JGSDF Trials) →East Asia · verified Jan 2022
View the full Bear Robotics deployment record →
Relationships
Explainers
Plain-language answers to the questions people ask about Bear Robotics, from DEPLOY’s explainer library. Each is written in the language of the question and cross-checked against this registry.
What are food service robots and how do they work?
What is Bear Robotics Servi and how does it deliver food?
Current leadership (2)
- John Ha Founder & CEOsince 2017-01-01secondary-verified
- Juan Higueros Co-founder & COOsince 2017-01-01secondary-verified
Founders (2)
- John Hasolefounded 2017-01-01
- Juan Higueroscofounderfounded 2017-01-01
Safety record
No incidents on record for Bear Robotics.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Operator customers (1)
- Bear Robotics5 deployments
Recent coverage
Bear Robotics in third-party press
Peers
144 peers across 1 segment. Every Bear Robotics competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
service(144)
113 companies in this segment · competitive (HHI 831.3520919269878) · leader Bond at 1957%
- Artly Coffeedirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Blendiddirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Botristadirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Cafe Xdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Chef Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Dexai Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)strong
Supplied by (2)
Batteries
- LG Energy Solutionvia Servi2170-type cylindrical lithium-ion cells (NCMA cathode, ceramic-coated separator)supplies
Inbound supply edges feeding this company directly or via the models it owns. Same source bar as the outbound view (verified against at least two strong sources).
Financial state
- Total funding
- $113.0M
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- growth
- Counterparty risk class
- moderate
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
2 total · 2 operating · 1 ended
Every company Bear Robotics has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- Bear Robotics acquires Kinisi Robotics2026-06-22with Kinisi Roboticsoperating
- Bear Robotics Series C (2024)2024-03-12with LG Electronicsoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1Kinisi Robotics1× joint
- 2LG Electronics1× joint1 total
All 2 partnerships
open in the atlas →- investment2024-03-12operating
- Bear Robotics acquires Kinisi RoboticswithKinisi Roboticstechnology2026-06-22concludedoperating
Funding rounds (2)
Bear Robotics’s 2 disclosed rounds, $113M in total, oldest to newest.
- Series B2022-03-01
$81M(reported) · $648M post
Investors: SoftBank Vision Fund 2 (lead)
- Series A2020-01-01
$32M(reported) · $192M post
Investors: SoftBank Vision Fund 2 (lead)
Acquisitions (1)
- acquired by LG Electronicsmajority stake2025-01-24
Patent estate (4)
- US11660758B2usptograntedgranted 2023-05-30assignee
- US20230095636A1usptopendingassignee
- US9535421B1usptograntedgranted 2017-01-03assignee
- WO2017006291A1wipopendingassignee
Timeline
Every recorded move in Bear Robotics’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
PartnershipBear Robotics acquires Kinisi Robotics
2026-06-22Bear Robotics acquired Kinisi Robotics to complete end-to-end physical AI robotics platform. Adds manipulation capabilities. KR1 humanoid built on Bear navigation platform.
Acquired byAcquired by LG Electronics
2025-01-24Acquired by LG Electronics (majority_stake)
PartnershipBear Robotics Series C (2024)
2024-03-12Bear Robotics raised a $60 million Series C (announced March 12, 2024) led by LG Electronics, to expand its service/hospitality robots into new markets.
Funding roundSeries B funding round
2022-03-01Series B raising $81000000
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2020-01-01Series A raising $32000000
Key hireJohn Ha joins as Founder & CEO
2017-01-01John Ha appointed Founder & CEO (current)
Key hireJohn Ha joins as Founder & CEO
2017-01-01John Ha appointed Founder & CEO (current)
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 8, 2026
Bear Robotics Table Tracker Solution
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 7, 2026
Bear Robotics Table Tracker Solution
- Record createdJun 6, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2024
Servi at South Korea
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2024
Servi at San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA
Sources (1)
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Bear Robotics.Peer companies
- KEENON Robotics2 models
- Richtech Robotics2 models
- Artly Coffee1 model
- Blendid1 model
- Botrista1 model
- Cafe X1 model
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Bear Robotics from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Insights behind Kinisi’s acquisition by Bear Robotics
Brennand Pierce, founder and CEO of Kinisi Robotics, discusses the company's approach to physical AI and its acquisition by Bear Robotics. The post Insights behind Kinisi’s…
Bear Robotics acquires Kinisi Robotics to boost its physical AI capabilities
Bear Robotics signed a definitive agreement to acquire Kinisi Robotics, integrating Kinisi's KR1 humanoid robot and its Bristol-based engineering team into Bear to complete Bear's…
Bear Adds Humanoids to Robot Lineup With Acquisition of Kinisi
Bear Robotics is looking for a helping hand as it seeks to strengthen its position in the food robotics space and beyond. It just got one by acquiring Kinisi Robotics, […]
Bear Robotics to Acquire Kinisi Robotics, Completing End-to-End Physical AI Platform
Bear Robotics signed definitive agreement to acquire Kinisi Robotics. Adds manipulation capabilities. KR1 humanoid robot built on Bear's navigation platform.
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Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/bear-robotics.md
- RSS feed: /companies/bear-robotics/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/4f8b91eb-125f-4bd9-851c-7f0acf849e0d
- Revision history: /companies/bear-robotics/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- KEENON Robotics2 models
- Richtech Robotics2 models
- Artly Coffee1 model
- Blendid1 model
- Botrista1 model
- Cafe X1 model
Video
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Discover how Servi Plus is the perfect solution for running orders and bussing dishes!
Introducing the second generation Penny! Penny is a self-driving robot that runs food, delivers drinks, and busses empty plates between kitchen and tables. Pen
Testing PennyBot at Kang Nam Tofu House in Milpitas, CA with real customers at normal operating hours.
Watch Bear Robotics deploy Servi, their automated service solution, into a new restaurant! The list of robot restaurants continues to grow, and Servi is the to
Kemp’s Kitchen “hires” new robot server! Website: bearrobotics.ai LinkedIn: Bear Robotics, Inc. Facebook: @bearrobotics Instagram: @bearrobotics Twitter: @bea
Watch our morning segment on The Today Show! Check out how Servi is being utilized during the labor shortage. Website: bearrobotics.ai LinkedIn: Bear Robotics
Learn how to safely and properly unbox your Servi. Website: bearrobotics.ai LinkedIn: Bear Robotics, Inc. Facebook: @bearrobotics Instagram: @bearrobotics Twit
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Heat Index
Category contender79/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Bear Robotics draws attention at the 92nd percentile but verifies reality at the 87th percentile among food_service robots. Hype Gap +5.3, 8th widest among food_service robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 5 verified deployments. Broad public reach with 14.4M video views. Thin IP estate relative to category peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Sep 5, 2026