secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Serve Robotics Inc. /DE/ (SERV)
CIK:        0001832483
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-01-21T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001213900-26-005920
Event type: m_and_a
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.75
Item codes: 1.01, 7.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Serve Robotics to acquire Diligent Robotics for $29M in stock, expanding into hospital robots
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- Acquisition consideration: $29.0M in Serve common stock (at ~$14.38/share), plus up to $5.3M earnout.
- Diligent's Moxi robot: over 1.25M deliveries, ~100 robots across 25+ hospitals; annual sales per hospital $200k–$400k.
- Transaction expected to close in Q1 2026; subject to customary closing conditions and Nasdaq listing of shares.
- Diligent (founded 2017) raised over $100M from Tiger Global, Canaan, True Ventures; CEO Andrea Thomaz to lead subsidiary.
- Deal extends Serve's autonomy platform from sidewalk delivery into indoor healthcare environments.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1832483/000121390026005920/0001213900-26-005920-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1832483/000121390026005920/ea0273454-8k_serve.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-26-005920

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