Refraction AI
Refraction AI is a leading robotics delivery software and services startup. It builds and deploys robotic platforms for providing safe and scalable last-mile goods delivery in urban areas. Refraction picks up goods from places like restaurants, pharmacies, and grocery stores and brings them directly to the door, enabling faster, cheaper, and safer delivery to meet customer’s growing expectations. Refraction’s robots are completely autonomous using a system of a dozen cameras, radar, and ultrasonic sensors and can also be teleoperated and monitored remotely. They employ an autonomy stack that is designed to perform in all climates, from the harshest of winters of Michigan to the hottest summers of Texas.
Refraction AI
Refraction AI is a leading robotics delivery software and services startup. It builds and deploys robotic platforms for providing safe and scalable last-mile goods delivery in urban areas. Refraction picks up goods from places like restaurants, pharmacies, and grocery stores and brings them directly to the door, enabling faster, cheaper, and safer delivery to meet customer’s growing expectations. Refraction’s robots are completely autonomous using a system of a dozen cameras, radar, and ultrasonic sensors and can also be teleoperated and monitored remotely. They employ an autonomy stack that is designed to perform in all climates, from the harshest of winters of Michigan to the hottest summers of Texas.
TL;DR
Business: Autonomous robotics and delivery software for last-mile goods delivery
Founding year: 2017
Notable product: REV-1 bicycle-based delivery robot
Total funding (reported): USD 10,700,000
Company Overview
Problem Domain
Last-mile goods delivery
Founded
2017
Industry
Robotics; Last-mile delivery
Tech Stack
Funding Track Record
USD 4,200,000
Reported seed round announced March 8, 2021 including multiple named investors.
Company financial listings record a seed entry dated March 14, 2022.
Investor Signal
“Includes institutional VC participation (Pillar VC and others) across seed rounds”