Serve Robotics launches Physical AI Services for robot makers

Serve Robotics is expanding beyond its own autonomous delivery operations with a new business line called Physical AI Services. The company announced the launch alongside its third-quarter earnings on Thursday.

The company will offer customers its connectivity and data tools. Bedrock Robotics, which is developing self-driving systems for construction equipment, is a customer, Serve said. Serve is also working with T-Mobile to bring AI computing power closer to robots.

Physical AI Services includes three products. Serve Link connects robots in the field to AI systems in data centers, which could let companies use more powerful AI models without putting all the computing hardware on each robot. A data curator tool helps companies identify unusual cases in the real-world data robots collect, so that data can be used to improve training models. A third product is a catalog of real-world foundation-model data gathered by Serve’s sidewalk robots, intended to help train AI models to understand complex human environments.

CEO and co-founder Ai Kashani told TechCrunch that Serve sees an opportunity to offer technology developed for its own robots to companies building robots for farms, warehouses, and other uncontrolled environments. The new business adds to Serve’s existing robot operations, which include sidewalk delivery robots and robots for hospitals. Kashani said those businesses are not going away.