Hivebotics raises $6M for restroom robots

Singapore’s Hivebotics raised US$6 million in Series A funding led by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India to move its Abluo robot from pilots into large-scale production, Business Times reports. Abluo has logged about 10,000 operating hours across 20 sites and turns roughly 30 minutes of manual cleaning into a five-minute human inspection, but those figures are company-reported operating evidence rather than a published cost per clean. Facilities teams should file the round as a scale-up test: demand proof of uptime, consumable cost, and inspection workload before replacing a human crew, alongside the archive’s per-deal robotics funding math.