Norbert Health Raises $14 Million Series A to Power Autonomous Robotic Nursing Assistants

Round backs the company's physical AI control system for healthcare, a growing library of clinical skills deployed on partner robots and live in facilities today

BROOKLYN, N.Y., Sept. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Norbert Health, whose physical AI control system turns robotic hardware platforms into autonomous nursing assistants, today announced its $14 million Series A, supported by William A. Marino with Cardinal Group, with participation from Exor Seeds, CareIT, and angel investors including Alexis Le-Quoc and Olivier Pomel (Datadog), Saeju Jeong (Noom) and Thomas Clozel (Owkin).

"Healthcare in the US is short close to a million nurses, and more than two million trained nurses no longer want to work bedside because the job keeps getting harder," said Alex Winter, CEO and co-founder of Norbert Health. "Robots that assist nurses can help reduce the burden, but only if they have clinical skills. Previous attempts put logistics robots on healthcare floors and never touched the core of a nurse's work. Norbert-powered robots build clinical skills in the real world, and they are the reliable path to the generic humanoid care helper of tomorrow. This round lets us accelerate."

Norbert-powered robots make rounds, capture vitals without contact, run assessments, handle patient requests, and document every encounter into the EHR. Robots can already walk, navigate, and carry; but care requires clinical and care related skills, and Norbert supplies the clinical brain and voice that turns a mobile robot into a working member of the care team.

Those skills run on Norbert's proprietary sensing and interaction AI stack: contactless physiology, mobility and motor function, cognitive and mental health markers, and behavioral and social activity. The interaction skills enable the robots to competently converse with patients across languages and communication styles, run structured assessments, and coordinate with staff. Together they help catch the small changes that become readmissions and acute events, and they free nurses and CNAs for the judgment, relationships and hands-on care that only they can deliver.

Norbert is live in production, rounding on hundreds of patients daily across skilled nursing facilities since August 2025. Patient acceptance is 96%. Monitoring compliance has reached 82%, nearly two times better than the baseline for manual remote monitoring. Every week, care teams catch acute events early, before they become bigger problems. And practically, our robots help activate compliant reimbursable opportunities and better value based care capabilities that are profitable from day one.

"Norbert is the rare physical AI company already earning its place in live clinical operations: real patients, real facilities, real workflows, every day," said Filippo Monteleone, President and Founder of CareIT, a leading healthcare investment firm with a strong seed portfolio. "The deployments are working, and the lead grows wider from here."

"Healthcare labor is one of the largest markets in the US economy, and robots have never had a credible route into it until now," said Saeju Jeong, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Noom, a digital health platform that uses psychology and technology to help people live healthier lives. "Norbert built that route, and this is the team to define the category."

New capital will deepen the clinical skill library, advance regulatory clearances, and expand deployments across skilled nursing and into new care settings. Current development areas include post-fall neurological evaluations, pressure injury prevention protocols, cognitive screening, and fall risk reassessment, each shipping on top of the existing installed base.

About Norbert Health

Norbert Health builds the physical AI control system for care: contactless medical-grade sensing, clinical protocol execution, EHR integration, and reimbursement infrastructure, deployed on partner robotic hardware platforms. Norbert is live in skilled nursing facilities across the United States and has raised $19 million to date. Learn more at www.norberthealth.com.

SOURCE Norbert Health