Hivebotics
About
About Hivebotics
Hivebotics builds Abluo autonomous restroom-cleaning robots for high-traffic commercial facilities. The platform combines mobile navigation, a six-axis cleaning arm, vision-based verification, steam, jetting and vacuuming, while HiveOS provides fleet monitoring and facility-level operational data. The company reports pilots in five countries.
Products
Operations
- Abluo Volume Production Plan
Volume production planned - 2026-09-04 - Hivebotics plans to move Abluo from pilot deployments into volume production using its Series A financing. - source posture: Company Disclosed
Source
Deployments
- Abluo Sites In Use
More than 20 sites - 2026-09-04 - Hospitals, airport terminals and shopping malls - Abluo has been used at more than 20 sites across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America during its pilot-stage rollout. - source posture: Company Disclosed
Source - Abluo Cumulative Operating Hours
Nearly 10,000 hours over 12 months - 2026-09-04 - Abluo logged nearly 10,000 operating hours over 12 months across its sites. - source posture: Company Disclosed
Source
Supply
Funding
- 2026-09-04 - Series A - $6M - Hivebotics raises $6M Series A led by Vertex Ventures
The company completed private financing to develop and expand its robotics business. - source: vertexventures.sg
Investors
- Fareast Land Development (Farglory Group) - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-09-04
- Rigel - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-09-04
- Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-09-04
Team
- Rishab Patwari - Founder and Chief Executive Officer - Founded Hivebotics and leads its commercial and product direction.
- Nguyen Tuan Dung - Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer - Co-founded Hivebotics and leads operating execution.
- Vincent Sim - Chief Strategy Officer - Leads strategic development for commercial facilities and cleaning markets.
- Viswanath B. - Chief Technology Officer - Leads the technical development of Abluo and Hivebotics robotics systems.
- Kendrick Chin - Head of Engineering - Leads the company's engineering organisation.
Timeline
Events
- 2026-09-04 - Funding - Hivebotics raises $6M Series A led by Vertex Ventures
Fareast Land Development, part of Farglory Group, and restroom-products manufacturer Rigel participated in the round. Abluo has logged nearly 10,000 operating hours over 12 months at more than 20 sites across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America. The financing also supports distributor expansion in four core markets and further development of the HiveIntelligence physical AI platform.
Source
Context
Comparable profiles
- Wangchao Innovation Robotics
comparable profile - Service Cleaning Robot Builder
- USX Robot
comparable profile - Service Cleaning Robot Builder
Shared workflows
- Star Species Robotics
workflow adjacency - Service Robot Cleaning
- ToolSense
workflow adjacency - Service Robot Cleaning
- SOMATIC
workflow adjacency - Service Robot Cleaning
Context tags
- Retail and facility operations - Customer Environment - https://hivebotics.com/ — defining company role reviewed during profile-qa-enrichment-2026-09-29-run24-batch2.
- Service cleaning robot builder - Peer Group - https://hivebotics.com/ — defining company role reviewed during profile-qa-enrichment-2026-09-29-run24-batch2.
- Service robot cleaning - Workflow - https://hivebotics.com/ — defining company role reviewed during profile-qa-enrichment-2026-09-29-run24-batch2.