Robot model
Relay
Hotel delivery robot for room service, amenities, and housekeeping items.
- Manufacturer
- Savioke
- Form factor
- service
- Maturity
- commercial
- Lifecycle
- superseded
- Website
- savioke.com ↗
supersededSuperseded by Relay. The historical entry remains for reference; current coverage tracks the successor.
Overview
Hotel delivery robot for room service, amenities, and housekeeping items. Autonomous navigation in elevators and hallways. 3ft tall with secure compartment.
Verified vs. claimed
- Maturity stage
- commercial(Commercially deployed with revenue-generating operations.)
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Sources on file
- 3 sources, view all
No verified deployments on file. DEPLOY tracks independently-sourced deployment evidence separately from manufacturer capability claims.
Key facts
CEO
Product
Origin
Data & sources
Web sources
3
3 sources backing this record.View all →
Pricing
No verified price is on record for Relay. Physical-AI systems are often sold through enterprise contracts or operated as a service rather than at a public list price.
Relay on the deployment map
Where Relay 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.
- Record createdJun 7, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Safety record
No incidents on record for Relay.
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 Relay?
- Hotel delivery robot for room service, amenities, and housekeeping items. Autonomous navigation in elevators and hallways. 3ft tall with secure compartment.
- How much does Relay cost?
- Relay's price is not publicly disclosed. DEPLOY has no verified price on record for Relay from Savioke. Physical-AI systems like this are often sold through enterprise contracts or operated as a service rather than at a public list price; check the manufacturer for the latest.
- Is Relay actually deployed in the real world?
- Relay is recorded at the commercial stage, but DEPLOY has no deployment verified at a named site yet; vendor deployment claims are not independently confirmed here. Manufacturer capability claims should be read as claims pending independent verification.
- Who makes Relay?
- Relay is made by Savioke, based in San Jose, CA, USA, founded in 2013.
- Can you buy Relay?
- Relay is in commercial deployment and is sold to operators; contact the manufacturer to buy, and see the pricing section for any recorded price.
- What are alternatives to Relay?
- On the DEPLOY registry, comparable service robots to Relay include Tally, Lio, Autonomous UV-C Disinfection Robot, Locus Origin.
- How does Relay compare to Tally?
- Relay and Tally (Simbe Robotics · 13 deployments) are both service robots on the DEPLOY registry. Relay has 0 verified deployments on record. Compare both records for specs, safety, deployments, and verified-vs-claimed autonomy.
- Is Relay a top service?
- On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, safety, adoption, media, and IP signals, Relay ranks in roughly the top 68% of service models tracked by the registry.
- What is Relay's maturity stage?
- Relay 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 Relay still being made?
- Relay has been superseded by a newer generation. The historical record remains on the registry for reference. Successor: Relay.
- Where is Relay deployed?
- No verified deployments of Relay are currently on the DEPLOY registry. DEPLOY records deployments only when verified at a named site with a primary source; absence may reflect pre-deployment, research, or manufacturer-internal use.
- Is Relay safe?
- Relay 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 2026-07-11
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-07-11
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: commercial
Lifecycle: superseded
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 Relay.Recent coverage
Relay in third-party press
BayCare Expands Autonomous Hospital Delivery with New Relay Robots at Winter Haven Hospitals - PR Newswire
Savioke Relay+ Features New Mechanical Elevator Interface and Knocks Down a Major Hurdle to Product Acceptance - The Robot Report
Relay2 delivery robot offers 2x payload, new elevator integration - The Robot Report
Attention vs reality over time
Media mentions per month (area) against verified deployment events (dots). A press spike over a flat deployment line is the hype gap, drawn over time.
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Relay from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
BayCare Expands Autonomous Hospital Delivery with New Relay Robots at Winter Haven Hospitals - PR Newswire
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Savioke Relay+ Features New Mechanical Elevator Interface and Knocks Down a Major Hurdle to Product Acceptance - The Robot Report
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Relay2 delivery robot offers 2x payload, new elevator integration - The Robot Report
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Relay Robotics expands senior product leadership team - The Robot Report
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Spotlight Interview: Michael O'Donnell, Chairman and CEO of Relay Robotics | - Hotel Technology News
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Savioke is now Relay Robotics - The Robot Report
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Relay Robotics Secures $10 Million Financing - Business Wire
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Michael O'Donnell has been named Chairman & CEO at Relay Robotics, Inc. - Hospitality Net
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Relay+ is Savioke’s next-gen service robot - The Robot Report
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Savioke's Robot Butler Brings You Room Service - IEEE Spectrum
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Delivery Robots Find Work in Hotels, Hospitals and Beyond - VOA - Voice of America English News
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CES 2018: Delivery Robots Are Full-Time Employees at a Las Vegas Hotel - IEEE Spectrum
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Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /models/savioke-relay.md
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/models/3ef82646-51fb-472c-a9cb-9314ce49d2b2
- Revision history: /models/savioke-relay/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Reality vs attention
Relay draws attention at the 50th percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among service robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Thin deployment record; scale validation still in progress.
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