Tombot

Summary

About

About Tombot

Tombot combines robotic engineering with animatronic design to make interaction with Jennie feel familiar. Touch sensors detect where and how the puppy is being petted, and servo-driven movements produce responses such as leaning into a hand. Voice commands and recorded puppy sounds add further ways for a user to engage with the device.

Jim Henson's Creature Shop contributed the animal's visual and physical design. Tombot's planned ownership experience includes rechargeable operation and software updates, with a smartphone app for configuration by users or caregivers. The robot is intended to provide an animal-like companion for people unable to care for a live pet, with its interactions built around touch, sound and responsive movement.

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Articles

27 JUN 2026

Robotics capital moves — 22–28 June 2026

Products

Funding

Investors

  • Caduceus Capital Partners - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-25
  • Florida Community Health Network - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-25
  • Lutheran Foundation for Long Term Living - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-25
  • Wavemaker 360 - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-25

Team

  • Tom Stevens - Co-Founder and CEO - Leads Tombot as it moves Jennie from development into manufacturing and commercial launch.
  • Hank Schorz - Co-Founder and CTO - Oversees technical direction for Tombot’s Jennie companion-robot platform.
  • Jesse Schorz - Co-Founder and COO - Leads operations as Tombot scales Jennie toward manufacturing and customer launch.
  • Jay Goss - Director - Provides Tombot board oversight informed by healthcare investing, venture formation and commercialization.
  • Peter Tam - Board Observer - Advises Tombot on medical-device scale-up, manufacturing, FDA and ISO 9001 partner work.

Timeline

Events

  • 2026-06-25 - Funding - Tombot closes $7M Series A3 to scale Jennie manufacturing

    Tombot announced the successful closing of a $7M Series A3 financing round with investments from Caduceus Capital Partners, Wavemaker 360, Lutheran Foundation for Long Term Living and Florida Community Health Network. The financing will scale manufacturing and operations and accelerate commercialization; Tombot reports more than 23,000 Jennie pre-order and waitlist signups ahead of planned Fall 2026 customer shipments. Jennie is a fully autonomous robotic companion puppy designed for people who cannot safely or practically care for a live animal, including seniors and people living with dementia or mild cognitive impairment.

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Relations

Relationships

  • Jim Henson's Creature Shop

    Jennie Artistic Design Partner - Jim Henson's Creature Shop provided the artistic design used to make Jennie look and behave like a realistic puppy.

Context

Comparable profiles

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  • Nanjing Weilan Technology

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  • SoulX

    comparable profile - Companion Consumer Robot Builder

  • Ludens AI

    comparable profile - Companion Consumer Robot Builder

Shared workflows

Context tags

  • Companion consumer robot builder - Peer Group - Tombot builds Jennie, a robotic companion animal for people unable to care for live pets.
  • Companion robot interaction - Workflow - Jennie is designed around touch response, naturalistic movements and companion interaction.
  • Service robotics ecosystem - Workflow - Tombot is a service / assistive companion robotics company.
  • Healthcare and assistive - Customer Environment - Tombot targets dementia, MCI, anxiety, loneliness, autism and PTSD use cases.
  • Healthcare robotics workflow - Workflow - The product is positioned for private homes, assisted living and memory-care communities.