The verified answer
As of Sep 2026, DEPLOY verifies Embodied: 2 models, 3 deployments across 3 regions. 2 sources back the record.
Overview
Embodied was an American social robotics company based in Pasadena, California, founded by Paolo Pirjanian. The company developed Moxie, an AI companion robot for children's social-emotional development, backed by 80M USD in funding. Embodied closed its doors in 2024.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 3 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Data & sources
Web sources
2
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Models (2)
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Embodied Moxie
Moxie is a child-focused AI companion robot developed by Embodied Inc of Pasadena, California, designed to support social-emotional learning in children ages 5 to 10. The robot includes a front camera, microphones, and continuous audio and video recording transmitted to the cloud; biometric facial expression datapoints are collected and processed via cloud AI. Natural language responses are generated using Google Cloud Speech-to-Text, OpenAI, and Anthropic language models, filtered by Embodied before playback. The robot becomes inoperable if parents revoke data consent. Sold at approximately $799 before Embodied wound down operations in late 2023; the product has been discontinued.
Current platform
Moxie
Moxie is a child-focused AI companion robot developed by Embodied Inc of Pasadena, California, designed to support social-emotional learning in children ages 5 to 10. The robot includes a front camera, microphones, and continuous audio and video recording transmitted to the cloud; biometric facial expression datapoints are collected and processed via cloud AI. Natural language responses are generated using Google Cloud Speech-to-Text, OpenAI, and Anthropic language models, filtered by Embodied before playback. The robot becomes inoperable if parents revoke data consent. Sold at approximately $799 before Embodied wound down operations in late 2023; the product has been discontinued.
Partnerships
Every company Embodied has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1aiXplain1× joint
- 2Lantronix1× joint
- 3NVIDIA1× joint1108 total
Most recent
Embodied on the deployment map
View the global map3 verified deployments across 3 regions, newest verified Jun 2024. Explore where Embodied's robots are operating, by place and type.
View the full Embodied deployment record →
Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Paolo Pirjanian CEOreported, not verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for Embodied.
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)
- Embodied3 deployments
Recent coverage
Embodied in third-party press
Peers
144 peers across 1 segment. Every Embodied 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%
- 1X Technologiesdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- A&K Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Aescapedirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Allen Control Systemsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Amazondirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Amity Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- wound_down
- Counterparty risk class
- high
- Going concern
- flaggedWound down 2023.
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
3 total · 3 operating · 1 ended
Every company Embodied has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
Most-frequent partners
- 1aiXplain1× joint
- 2Lantronix1× joint
- 3NVIDIA1× joint1108 total
All 3 partnerships
open in the atlas →- embodied-moxie x nvidiawithNVIDIA1108technology—operating
- Embodied x aiXplainwithaiXplaindevelopment—announcedoperating
- Embodied x LantronixwithLantronixdevelopment—concludedoperating
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 11, 2026
Meet Moxie - The Revolutionary Robot Companion for Social-Emotional...
- Record createdJun 7, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2024
Moxie at Pasadena
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2024
Embodied Moxie at United States (multiple hotel chains)
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2024
Embodied Moxie at Germany, Europe
Sources (2)
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Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
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Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- unclassified
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The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Embodied.Peer companies
- Roborock20 models
- Ecovacs Robotics19 models
- SharkNinja14 models
- Unitree Robotics10 models
- iRobot9 models
- DJI7 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Embodied from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
JD Cloud Charts a ‘Physical AI’ Ambition, From Airport Ads to the JDD Stage
JD Cloud is pushing a “physical AI” ambition from airport ads to its annual JDD conference, betting on robots, embodied data and home devices as AI moves from screens into the…
Unitree Plants ‘Three Bases, Two Centers’ in Chengdu as Embodied-AI Leaders Converge
Unitree is setting up a “three bases, two centers” embodied-intelligence footprint in Chengdu, making it the fifth leading Chinese embodied-AI company to establish a presence in…
Direct Drive Bets Wheel-Legged Robots Solve the First Hurdle of Embodied AI: Getting In
Chinese startup Direct Drive argues the bottleneck for embodied robots is not a smarter brain but physical access to the real world, pairing direct-drive actuators with…
TARS Raises $455M Pre-A Round, Setting Record in China’s Embodied AI Sector
TARS has completed a $455 million Pre-A funding round (approximately RMB 3.3 billion), setting a new record for the largest single-round financing in China’s em...
SynapX Bets on 'Brain and Hand' for the Dawn of Silicon Labor
At the World Robot Conference, SynapX unveiled brain, hand, and data product lines instead of a humanoid, betting that general intelligence plus a dexterous hand defines embodied…
What if the first embodied AI you meet is a fighting robot?
Most of the time, when we talk about embodied intelligence, the first things that come to mind are factories, warehouses, and robots doing actual work. Qianxing Intelligence,…
Zoomlion revenue grows 9.2% as company expands robotics and AI activities
Zoomlion reported revenue of RMB 27.14 billion (US$4.04 billion) for the first half of 2026, an increase of 9.2% year on year. At the same time, the Chinese construction and…
Perceptron AI Launches Open-Weight Robotics Model Called ‘Isaac 0.5’
Insider Brief Perceptron AI has released Isaac 0.5, a 36-billion-parameter open-weight model designed to combine video understanding, embodied reasoning and robot control in a…
The edge AI wall: Why embodied AI requires new mathematics
Computational overload is not a bug of a specific planner, but an edge AI wall limiting physical and embodied AI. The post The edge AI wall: Why embodied AI requires new…
Embodied-AI startup PsiBot raises over $100 million with industrial investors joining
PsiBot, a Chinese embodied-AI startup focused on dexterous manipulation, has completed a new funding round of more than US$100 million. The round includes Ningbo Tuopu Group, a…
Beijing Humanoid Robotics Tops Humanoid Games; CEO: Embodied AI's 'ChatGPT Moment' Is Near
Beijing Humanoid Robotics Innovation Center sweeps the World Humanoid Robot Games while CEO Xiong Youjun argues the industry has reached embodied AI's pre-ChatGPT moment.
'Data Starvation': The Real Bottleneck Holding Back China's Embodied AI
As China builds embodied-intelligence training grounds nationwide, a more than 99% shortfall in physical-interaction data risks keeping humanoid robots stuck at the demo stage.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/embodied-moxie.md
- RSS feed: /companies/embodied-moxie/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/fc1302a5-165b-4ddb-83d9-90ec178f3755
- Revision history: /companies/embodied-moxie/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Roborock20 models
- Ecovacs Robotics19 models
- SharkNinja14 models
- Unitree Robotics10 models
- iRobot9 models
- DJI7 models
Video
Imagine a robot that learns like a human! Welcome to the fascinating world of embodied AI, where machines interact with their environment in revolutionary ways.
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Neil Shah of Counterpoint Research discusses the rise of embodied AI, where artificial intelligence is integrated into physical systems such as humanoid robots
China is rapidly emerging as a global leader in robotics and embodied artificial intelligence, leveraging its manufacturing scale and deep supply chains to shap
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Artificial Intelligence is no longer confined to screens, chatbots, or digital assistants. The next major breakthrough is here — the Physical AI Revolution. In
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Heat Index
Serious56/100
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
Embodied draws attention at the 97th percentile but verifies reality at the 39th percentile among service robots. Hype Gap +58, 4th widest among service robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 3 verified deployments. Broad public reach with 8.6M video views. Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
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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.
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Last computed: Sep 6, 2026