Robot model
Diners
Restaurant food delivery robot.
- Manufacturer
- KEENON Robotics
- Form factor
- service
- Maturity
- commercial
- Lifecycle
- active
- Deployments
- 1
Overview
Restaurant food delivery robot. Navigates between kitchen and tables autonomously. Multi-tray design for serving multiple dishes. Deployed in restaurants across Asia.
Verified vs. claimed
- Maturity stage
- commercial(Commercially deployed with revenue-generating operations.)
- Verified deployments
- 1 deployment on file
- Sources on file
- 3 sources, view all
Key facts
Focus
Robot
Scale
CEO
Total funding
Revenue
Investors
Data & sources
Web sources
3
3 sources backing this record.View all →
Availability and pricing
- Availability
- Not disclosed
- Price
- $10K (actual sale price)as of 2025-01-01
- Units in field
- Not disclosed
- Sales model
- Not disclosed
- Lead time
- Not disclosed
Pricing
One-time purchase
$9,800 USDactual sale priceas of 2025-01-01
Source: KEENON Dinerbot T9 Delivery Robot – OpenBot Solutions
Price status: actual-sale-price = real published price at time of sale; manufacturer-target = vendor target, not yet realized; analyst-estimate = third-party projection, not a vendor figure; not-announced = no price on record.
Prices verified as of Jan 1, 2025
Deployments (1)
- Diners at Shanghai, Chinaoperational
Keenon Diners robots deployed across restaurant chains in China and Asia.
Diners on the deployment map
Where Diners is verified operating. Explore the deployment map by place and type.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 11, 2026
KEENON T8 Delivery Robot
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 11, 2026
KEENON DINERBOT at Chick-fil-A
- Record createdJun 7, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Price point recorded: $9,800VerifiedJan 1, 2025
Actual sale price
Safety record
No incidents on record for Diners.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Sources (3)
Common questions
- What is Diners?
- Restaurant food delivery robot. Navigates between kitchen and tables autonomously. Multi-tray design for serving multiple dishes. Deployed in restaurants across Asia.
- How much does Diners cost?
- Diners is listed at $9,800 on the DEPLOY registry. This is an actual sale price on record.
- Is Diners actually deployed in the real world?
- Yes. Diners is independently verified in real-world operation on the DEPLOY registry, confirmed at named deployment sites with primary sources: not a concept, render, or demo-only.
- Who makes Diners?
- Diners is made by KEENON Robotics, based in Shanghai, China.
- Where is Diners deployed?
- 1 verified deployment of Diners is on the DEPLOY registry, including at Shanghai, China.
- Can you buy Diners?
- Diners is available for purchase - a real sale price is on record (see the pricing section for the figure and its source).
- What are alternatives to Diners?
- On the DEPLOY registry, comparable service robots to Diners include Tally, Lio, Autonomous UV-C Disinfection Robot, Locus Origin.
- How does Diners compare to Tally?
- Diners and Tally (Simbe Robotics · 13 deployments) are both service robots on the DEPLOY registry. Diners has 1 verified deployment on record. Compare both records for specs, safety, deployments, and verified-vs-claimed autonomy.
- Is Diners a top service?
- On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, safety, adoption, media, and IP signals, Diners ranks in roughly the top 64% of service models tracked by the registry.
- What is Diners's maturity stage?
- Diners is at the commercial stage on the DEPLOY maturity ladder (research, prototype, pilot, commercial, production). Commercial stage means production-grade deployments are operating at named customer sites.
- Is Diners safe?
- Diners has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.
Methodology: Verified · 3 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-08
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-07-08
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: commercial
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: service
Sources by quality tier
- 3
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Diners.Recent coverage
Diners in third-party press
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Diners from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /models/keenon-diners.md
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/models/ff0fc1c2-b1bd-40d8-a529-30dbbfa1c26c
- Revision history: /models/keenon-diners/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Reality vs attention
Diners draws attention at the 6th percentile but verifies reality at the 32nd percentile among service robots. Hype Gap -25.8, 21st widest among service robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited independent press and video coverage to date.
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: Jul 23, 2026