Moxie (Embodied)
2016 - 2024, 9 years old
An $800 cloud-connected social robot designed to teach social and emotional skills to children.
Embodied was founded in 2016 by former iRobot CTO Paolo Pirjanian and raised roughly $86 million across seven rounds to build Moxie, a Pixar-styled robot aimed at children on the autism spectrum. In late November 2024 the company told customers a critical funding round had collapsed and that Moxie would stop working within days, with no refunds. Because every conversation was routed through cloud LLMs, the units bricked when the servers went dark at the end of December 2024. Embodied included a letter from the in-fiction "Global Robotics Lab" to help parents explain the death to their kids, and videos of children saying goodbye to their robots circulated on TikTok.
- Founded
- 2016-01
- Shut down
- 2024-12-31
- Funding raised
- $86M
- Years alive
- 9
- Founders
- Paolo Pirjanian