Diligent Robotics hires 2 former Cruise execs to scale Moxi

Diligent Robotics, known for its hospital-assisting robot Moxi, has strengthened its leadership by hiring two former Cruise executives: Rashed Haq as CTO and Todd Brugger as COO. Moxi automates routine hospital tasks such as delivering supplies, lab specimens, and medications, and has been deployed in over 30 U.S. hospitals, completing more than one million deliveries and saving nearly 600,000 staff hours. The addition of Haq and Brugger, who bring extensive experience in scaling autonomous vehicle technology, aims to accelerate Diligent’s AI-driven product development and expand Moxi’s applications beyond hospitals into broader commercial and assisted living environments. Diligent Robotics leverages core technologies similar to those used in self-driving cars—such as multi-modal perception, human behavior prediction, and real-time planning—to enable humanoid robots to operate autonomously in complex, human-centric settings. CEO Andrea Thomaz emphasized hospitals as a proving ground for their technology, while co-founder Vivian Chu highlighted the